Thompson, Knudt 1840 - 1901

THOMPSON

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 5/19/2024 at 21:00:45

Source: Decorah Republican Feb. 14, 1901 P 4 C 4

A Whiskey Victim—probably
Waukon Standard. —About 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Knudt Thompson left his home in Union Prairie, about five miles northwest of town, to call on a neighbor. He did not return at night, but Mrs. Thompson felt no anxiety, thinking he had decided to spend the night with the neighbor. When he did not return the next day however, she became uneasy and sent her daughter to look for him. After a little search, the daughter found him, face down in the snow, dead, with his dog watching beside him. It seems that a jug of alcohol played a prominent part the day before, and Thompson was so overcome by it that he could not reach home and fell, freezing to death Such was the result of the coroner’s inquest which was held the next day and sworn to before the coroner, Dr S. C. Meyers.

Transcriber’s Note: Find a Grave shows he is buried in Glenwood Lutheran Cemetery and that he was born Jan. 30, 1840 and died Feb. 3, 1901.

Glenwood Lutheran cemetery
 

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