OBIT: Paul H. THOMPSON, 1920, Tyrone, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Sharon Miller Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ Paul H. Thompson Major William Zierdt, of the inspector general's department, yesterday afternoon concluded his official inquiry into the death last Monday on the Mount Gretna reservation of Paul Thompson, 13 year old son of Mrs. Ida May (Ginter) Thompson, of Blair Avenue, and the late John Henry Thompson who died in 1916 at Tyrone, Pa. Paul H. was born in 1906, and is survived by these sisters and brothers: Reuben R., Dorothy, William and Mrs. James Finn. It was disclosed that the boy had first been discovered as having stowed himself away on the train taking the troopers, from Tyrone to camp. There were no means at hand to send him back home, so the troopers raised a purse to pay the boy's fair to camp. Monday evening Charles S. Rowe, a civilian chauffeur, under Captain William Hicks of the state arsenal, was driving a heavy truck from the quartermasters house to the cavalry camp, when near Lake Conewago he was hailed by soldiers for a lift. He took them on board and had hardly resumed his journey when the lighting system of the truck failed, and flashlights had to be used as substitutes. This resulted in the truck being ditched, tossing its occupants on the road. Thompson was thrown and had his skull fractured. The boy was rushed to the First Cavalry infirmary, where Major Douglass McFerren awaited his arrival, but, death resulted ten minutes later. The body was taken in charge by a Lebanon undertaker and prepared for burial. Tyrone Daily Herald, August 13, 1920, page 2 Funeral of Paul Thompson The body of Paul Thompson, the lad killed at Mount Gretna early this week, arrived in Tyrone last night and was taken to the mother's home on Blair Avenue, Tyrone, where funeral services will be held on Friday afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Interment will be made in Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone, Blair County, Pa. Tyrone Daily Herald, August 12, 1920, page 3