Aiken County ScArchives News.....No Title March 28, 1882
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The Aiken Reporter March 28, 1882
Col. Wm. T. Thompson. One of the best known and most shining lights of Southern 
journalism has passed from among us to join the immortal hosts on the other side 
of the dark and silent river. Colonel Thompson, senior editor of the Savannah 
News, died on Friday evening last at his home in Savannah. He was born at 
Ravenna, Ohio, on the 31st of August, 1812, and was consequently in his 
seventieth year. He was not only an ornament to journalism, but had also 
abtained a reputation as an author and humorist. He was the author of “Major 
Jones’ Courtship,” the “Chronicles of Pineville,” “Major Jones’ Travels,” and 
other sketches, also the well known farce of “The Live Indian,” and a 
dramatization of “The Vicar of Wakefield,” which was produced both in Europe and 
America with great success. He has been connected with various newspaper 
enterprises, but finally moved to Savannah in 1850 and commenced the publication 
of the Morning News, and has been the chief editor of that paper ever since.

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