Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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James Thompson




Husband James Thompson 1

           Born: 11 Oct 1805 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 Jan 1833 - Franklin, Venango Co, PA 1
 Cause of Death: Explosion
         Buried: 


         Father: William Thompson (1777-1823) 1 2
         Mother: Susanna Linn (1783-1831) 1 2





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General Notes: Husband - James Thompson


He died one morning when he was making a fire in a stove in his store, and by mistake used a powder keg, in which there were a few pounds of caked powder, and was killed by the explosion.

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Sources


1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 372.

2 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 50.


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