Thompson, Walter Melvin

Funeral Home Data

Deceased:Thompson, Walter Melvin

Born:Mar 03 1912

Died:Oct 22 1918

Remarks:a child, 6 years 7 months and 21 days old, died Oct 22, 1918, at Cardin Oklahoma, of pneumonia. Born Mar 3, 1912. Father Archelaus Thompson born Missouri and mother Louisa Bannon Thompson was born Tennessee. Note: See William Edgar Thompson, died Oct 14, 1918, burial on Oct 26, 1918, Arthur Riley Thompson, died Oct 23, 1918, and Louisa Thompson, died Oct 25, 1918. Mother and three children died within about 11days of each other, all of pneumonia. Burial at G.A.R. cemetery 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