THOMPSON, Ralph E.

Date of birth:  23 Mar 1889 – Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 13 Feb 1900 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 16, 1900,
Volume XL Number 33, page 1 column 3

Local and Personal.

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Ralph Thompson, the ten year old son of Ed Thompson, died Tuesday af­ternoon at 1:30 o’clock. His death was due to an [abdominal] abscess caused by injuries from jumping off a hay stack. He had suffered intensely and the attending physicians, as a last resort, had Dr. Eastman of Indianapolis, per­form a surgical operation, but without avail.

Link to Ralph E. Thompson’s grave

Note: Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899–2011, Franklin, Johnson County, page 246, records that Ralph E Thompson died on 13 Feb 1900 at about 1:30 p. m. at his family’s residence in Franklin, Johnson County, from peritonitis of twelve days duration, immediate cause an abscess of abdomen of three days duration. He was ten years, eleven months and thirteen days old. He was a school boy, born in Johnson County, to T. E. Thompson (born in Kentucky) and Emma C. Canary (born in Indiana). He was buried in Franklin on 15 Feb 1900, undertaker E. G. Barnhizer.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson