Thompson, Arthur Riley

Funeral Home Data

Deceased:Thompson, Arthur Riley

Born:Nov 08 1902

Died:Oct 23 1918

Age:16

Remarks:died Oct 23, 1918, at Cardin Oklahoma, of pneumonia, age 16 years 9 months and 15 days. Born Nov 8, 1902. Father Archelaus Thompson born Missouri and mother Louisa Bannon Thompson was born in Tennessee. Note: See William Edgar Thompson, died Oct 14, 1918, burial on Oct 26, 1918, Walter Melvin Thompson, died Oct 22, 1918, and Louisa Thompson, died Oct 25, 1918. Mother and three children died within about 11 days of each other, all of pneumonia. Burial at G.A.R. cemetery at Miami Oklahoma. Note: See article on Spanish Flu of 1918. Since the death date falls within the time frame of the Spanish Flu Epidemic it may, or may not, be related to the epidemic.

Record Source:Mitchelson Funeral Home

(Funeral Record)Commerce, Ottawa County, OK

Book: Mitchelson Funeral Home, Commerce, Oklahoma July 1916 - August 1957 — S J Mahurin

ISBN: 1-892744-93-7