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Helen Thompson Sunday
Helen Amelia Thompson Sunday (June 25, 1868 – February 20, 1957) was the wife of Billy Sunday, an indefatigable organizer of his huge evangelistic campaigns during the first decades of the twentieth century, and eventually an evangelistic speaker in her own right.
== Early life and marriage ==
Helen Sunday, often called “Nell” or “Ma” by her husband, was born to William and Ellen Binnie Thompson in Dundee, Illinois. Her father, a prosperous businessman and a staunch Presbyterian of Scottish heritage, moved the family to Chicago in 1869. 〔Nell was the second of five children. Her oldest sister, Flora Thompson Hopkins, was president of the Dane County Women's Christian Temperance Union, and her younger sister, Ada, was married to early film maker George Kirke Spoor. "Flora Hopkins, WCTU Leader, Dies at 78,"''Wisconsin State Journal'' (May 18, 1944).〕
As a teenager, Nell taught a Sunday School class at Jefferson Park Presbyterian Church,〔In her early years, the pastor of Jefferson Park Presbyterian was the noted evangelical Francis Landey Patton, who later served as president of Princeton Theological Seminary.〕 and by eighteen, she had been made supervisor of the Intermediate Department and was an influential member of the Christian Endeavor Society, the Presbyterian youth organization. Recognizing her executive abilities, her father sent her to business college, although her mother objected to such “unladylike” pursuits.〔Opal Cording Overmeyer, ''Remarkable Ma Sunday: The Story of a Wonderful Life'' (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1957), 8-9.〕
According to an oft-repeated story, Helen said that she met Billy Sunday at a church social shortly after his conversion to Christianity.〔Sunday could never remember the date of this experience, although he made repeated reference to it. The oft-told conversion story poses a number of chronological difficulties. The best explication of the problems and their partial solutions is Wendy Knickerbocker, ''Sunday at the Ballpark'' (Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2000), 59-63, 79-89.〕 William Thompson at first objected to the noted White Stockings baseball player becoming the suitor of his daughter. Nevertheless, he softened, and the couple was married in the Thompson home on September 5, 1888. The Sundays had four children: Helen Edith (1890), George Marquis (1892), William Ashley, Jr. (1901) and Paul Thompson (1907).
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