OBIT: Austin THOMPSON, 1871, Wilmore, Cambria County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by MS Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ The Register Hollidaysburg, Pa. Wednesday, January 4, 1871 THOMPSON - At Wilmore, Cambria county, on Wednesday, November 16, 1870, of typhoid fever, Austin Thompson, Esq., aged 72 years. The deceased was one of the old citizens of Cambria county, as respects both the number of his years and the length of his residence within the county. He was born in Connecticut but came to Pennsylvania with his parents in his youth, and to Cambria county in his early manhood where he found and married a wife who survives him. He came to the mountains between forty and fifty years ago - stopping for a year or so in or near Johnstown, and was assistant superintendent of the Allegheny Portage Railroad during the Ritner administration in 1836-38. He took up his residence in Wilmore, on the mountain about 1857 where he was elected a Justice of the Peace and continued to reside until in the fullness of years and the respect of his fellow-citizens, death claimed him as his own and removed him hence to his eternal rest. Mr. Thompson was widely and familiarly known among the older citizens of this county. Possessing an intelligent mind of his own, with strong and very decided religious and political opinions, which he never hesitated to express, and when seemed called upon to defend. He always manifested a lively interest in public affairs and until a late day, took an active part in political campaigns, where his force of character gave him considerable influence. For a number of years he has suffered the infirmities of old age, being confined to his room and much of his time to his bed with inflammatory rheumatism. His remains were brought to this place for interment with his kindred, attended by a delegation of the Odd Fellows' society, and his old neighbors of Wilmore. His only child - Lucy Thompson - is the estimable and excellent wife of William H. Gardner, Esq., cashier of the First National Bank of this place.