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Tompkins, Erastus died 1888

TOMPKINS

Posted By: Cathy Joynt Labath (email)
Date: 12/10/2005 at 14:33:19

A distressing accident occurred at Strawberry Point on Thanksgiving Day by which Mr. Erastus Tompkins lost his life. He and his son with one or two others were about to start hunting when the boy accidentally exploded the shell in his gun, shooting his father just above the right temple, killing him instantly.

-Kellogg Enterprise (Kellogg, Jasper co. Iowa)
December 14, 1888

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