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Jessie (Thurston) Piper
(1884-1941)

Jessie (Thurston) Piper was born in 1884 in Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, PA, the daughter of Charles and Emma (Minerd) Thurston.

Jessie married Benjamin Franklin "Frank" Piper ( ? - ? ). They are believed to have had at least three children who died young -- Thomas P. Piper (died 1923), an unnamed infant son (1925) and James E. Piper (1943).

On April 2, 1913, Jessie sent a penny postcard to her cousin Lula (Stairs) Swift. The card is seen at right, and today is preserved in the Minerd-Miner-Minor Archives. In the card, Jessie wrote:

I got home O.K. I have not yet begun to clean house yet but want to start this week. Ruby is going to help me do some papering. Will try and come up [to Greensburg] soon as I get through a little.

In 1919, Jessie was residing in Mt. Pleasant. The Pipers made their home at Bessemer, North Huntingdon Township, circa 1941.

She passed away at the age of 57 in 1941, and was laid to rest in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.

The fates of her husband and any other children are unknown.