OBIT: William THOMPSON, 1914, Saxton, Bedford County, PA

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WILLIAM THOMPSON

William Thompson, editor of the Saxton Herald, died suddenly at his home in 
Saxton on Thursday night, July 2, about 11 o'clock of heart failure, after a 
brief illness.  He stopped at his physician's office on this way home about ten 
o'clock, complaining of a pain in his arm and side.  He died an hour afterward.  
The deceased was born at Mooresville, Huntingdon county, in 1863, and was a son 
of James and Elizabeth Thompson.

William Thompson and William Wilson, of Mooresville, moved to Saxton in 1886 and 
started the Herald.  Wilson was killed a year later at his old home since which 
time Mr. Thompson had full charge.  He was married in 1884 to Miss Jennie Breth, 
who with seven children survive.  Funeral Sunday afternoon.  Interment in Saxton 
cemetery.

Martinsburg Herald, July 10, 1914