Obituary

LUMBERMAN DEAD

Byron R. Thompson Succumbs After Brief Illness
Well Known Dealer Fails to Rally After Attack of Peritonitis

Byron R. Thompson, a veteran lumber dealer of this city and president of the Thompson lumber company died of peritonitis at his residence, 230 South College avenue at 6 o'clock last night.

Mr. Thompson has been in the lumber business here for more than twenty years, coming to this city thirty years ago from his birth place, Curwensville, PA. His illness was of but short duration.

He is survived by a widow and one daughter, Miss Eva Thompson and one sister, Mrs. Lily M. Johnson of Allegan. He also leaves four brothers, A.W. Thompson of this city, S.C. Thompson of Manistee, E.G. Thompson, editor of the Ligonier, Ind. Leader, and John A. Thompson, a broker at 35 Wall street, New York.

All the relatives have been summoned and will attend the funeral which will be held at the residence at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Interment will be in Greenwood cemetery.


Byrons’s obituary was published in the Grand Rapids (MI) Press on 3 Sep 1907 in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan, United States.
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Grand Rapids (MI) Times
Sat. Sept. 7, 1907
transcribed from microfilm

B.R. Thompson, the lumber dealer, is being slobbered over and his picture published in the dailies simply because he has shuffled off the mortal coil and gone to another plane. This is nauseous for no one knows of any good he did. On the contrary he was an old reprobate. But these dimes and dollars
are wonderfully potent.
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Manistee (MI) Daily Advocate
Sept. 3, 1907

Mr. S.C. Thompson was hastily called to Grand Rapids yesterday on account of the death of his brother, Leon Thompson, a rich lumberman of that place.



He appeared on the census on 16 Sep 1860 in Curwensville, Clearfield, Pennsylvania.
Stacy Thompson; age 40; male; lumberman; b.PA
Elizabeth; age 36; female; b.PA
Ambrose; age 9; male; b.PA
Byron; age 7; male; b.PA
Edwin; age 6; male; b.PA
Stacy; age 4; male; b.PA
John; age 3; male; b.PA


He appeared on the census on 22 Aug 1870 in Boggs, Clearfield, Pennsylvania.
Thompson, Elizabeth; age 45; female; white; keeping house; b.PA
Ambrose W.; age 19; male; white; farmer; b.PA
Byron R.; age 17; male; white; b.PA
John A.; age 13; male; white; b.PA
Lillie May; age 7; female; white; b.PA
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*Apoplexy is an old-fashioned medical term occasionally, the term is used to describe hemorrhaging within other organs.5101

Peritonitis is an inflammation of the peritoneum (The peritoneum is the tissue layer of cells lining the inner wall of the abdomen and pelvis). Peritonitis can result from infection (such as bacteria or parasites), injury and bleeding, or diseases.5102