Susannah's Mason County Death Certificate: 50 years, 3 mos, 5 days, born in Ohio, she died in Pennsylvania Township, she lived in Illinois for 47 years
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Provided by member Jimm Furrer Find a Grave ID 48775242:
Her husband William Clark Thompson dropped the "Thompson" from his surname while he and second wife Susannah (Dorrell) Thompson lived in Laramie, Wyoming.
William had been a distiller and a rum runner in Illinois who wasn't paying liquor taxes to the government. After his first wife died in 1860, he remarried and ran a distillery in Havana, Illinois circa 1860-1866, when it burned to the ground, apparently in 1866 in a blaze of glory.
Along with his second wife Susannah (Dorrell) Thompson and their son Frank, they were run out of Duncan's Mill, Fulton County, Illinois (located near Havana, on the Spoon River) some time after the July 1870 U.S. Census.
Taking the family first to Denver, Colorado, and later in May of 1871 they came to Laramie, Wyoming, where as "William Clark" he was engaged in running a restaurant and boarding house opposite the Railroad House in Laramie City, Wyoming Territory. Their second son, Richard Clark Thompson, was born there in 1872.
According to his newspaper obituary in the Laramie Daily Sentinel, Mr. Clark had become a very large and corpulent man, weighing at the time of his death about four hundred pounds. The excessive weight, interfering with and obstructing the action of the heart and lungs, together with a tendency to dropsy, attributed to his death. He was buried at Laramie's Green Hill Cemetery, Row UO, Lot 149, Space 1, but he does not have a headstone.
After William Clark Thompson died, Susannah ran the restaurant in Laramie for a couple more years before finally selling it and moving back in with her mother on the farm in Easton, Illinois about 1876 with her two sons, with everyone reverting back to the original Thompson surname.
The 1880 U. S. Census dated 12 June shows her and the two sons all living with Susannah's mother, the widow Huldah (Denman) Dorrell in Pennsylvania Township, Mason County, Illinois.
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Provided by member Jimm Furrer Find a Grave ID 48775242:
Her husband William Clark Thompson dropped the "Thompson" from his surname while he and second wife Susannah (Dorrell) Thompson lived in Laramie, Wyoming.
William had been a distiller and a rum runner in Illinois who wasn't paying liquor taxes to the government. After his first wife died in 1860, he remarried and ran a distillery in Havana, Illinois circa 1860-1866, when it burned to the ground, apparently in 1866 in a blaze of glory.
Along with his second wife Susannah (Dorrell) Thompson and their son Frank, they were run out of Duncan's Mill, Fulton County, Illinois (located near Havana, on the Spoon River) some time after the July 1870 U.S. Census.
Taking the family first to Denver, Colorado, and later in May of 1871 they came to Laramie, Wyoming, where as "William Clark" he was engaged in running a restaurant and boarding house opposite the Railroad House in Laramie City, Wyoming Territory. Their second son, Richard Clark Thompson, was born there in 1872.
According to his newspaper obituary in the Laramie Daily Sentinel, Mr. Clark had become a very large and corpulent man, weighing at the time of his death about four hundred pounds. The excessive weight, interfering with and obstructing the action of the heart and lungs, together with a tendency to dropsy, attributed to his death. He was buried at Laramie's Green Hill Cemetery, Row UO, Lot 149, Space 1, but he does not have a headstone.
After William Clark Thompson died, Susannah ran the restaurant in Laramie for a couple more years before finally selling it and moving back in with her mother on the farm in Easton, Illinois about 1876 with her two sons, with everyone reverting back to the original Thompson surname.
The 1880 U. S. Census dated 12 June shows her and the two sons all living with Susannah's mother, the widow Huldah (Denman) Dorrell in Pennsylvania Township, Mason County, Illinois.
Susannah's Mason County Death Certificate: 50 years, 3 mos, 5 days, born in Ohio, she died in Pennsylvania Township, she lived in Illinois for 47 years
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Provided by member Jimm Furrer Find a Grave ID 48775242:
Her husband William Clark Thompson dropped the "Thompson" from his surname while he and second wife Susannah (Dorrell) Thompson lived in Laramie, Wyoming.
William had been a distiller and a rum runner in Illinois who wasn't paying liquor taxes to the government. After his first wife died in 1860, he remarried and ran a distillery in Havana, Illinois circa 1860-1866, when it burned to the ground, apparently in 1866 in a blaze of glory.
Along with his second wife Susannah (Dorrell) Thompson and their son Frank, they were run out of Duncan's Mill, Fulton County, Illinois (located near Havana, on the Spoon River) some time after the July 1870 U.S. Census.
Taking the family first to Denver, Colorado, and later in May of 1871 they came to Laramie, Wyoming, where as "William Clark" he was engaged in running a restaurant and boarding house opposite the Railroad House in Laramie City, Wyoming Territory. Their second son, Richard Clark Thompson, was born there in 1872.
According to his newspaper obituary in the Laramie Daily Sentinel, Mr. Clark had become a very large and corpulent man, weighing at the time of his death about four hundred pounds. The excessive weight, interfering with and obstructing the action of the heart and lungs, together with a tendency to dropsy, attributed to his death. He was buried at Laramie's Green Hill Cemetery, Row UO, Lot 149, Space 1, but he does not have a headstone.
After William Clark Thompson died, Susannah ran the restaurant in Laramie for a couple more years before finally selling it and moving back in with her mother on the farm in Easton, Illinois about 1876 with her two sons, with everyone reverting back to the original Thompson surname.
The 1880 U. S. Census dated 12 June shows her and the two sons all living with Susannah's mother, the widow Huldah (Denman) Dorrell in Pennsylvania Township, Mason County, Illinois.
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Provided by member Jimm Furrer Find a Grave ID 48775242:
Her husband William Clark Thompson dropped the "Thompson" from his surname while he and second wife Susannah (Dorrell) Thompson lived in Laramie, Wyoming.
William had been a distiller and a rum runner in Illinois who wasn't paying liquor taxes to the government. After his first wife died in 1860, he remarried and ran a distillery in Havana, Illinois circa 1860-1866, when it burned to the ground, apparently in 1866 in a blaze of glory.
Along with his second wife Susannah (Dorrell) Thompson and their son Frank, they were run out of Duncan's Mill, Fulton County, Illinois (located near Havana, on the Spoon River) some time after the July 1870 U.S. Census.
Taking the family first to Denver, Colorado, and later in May of 1871 they came to Laramie, Wyoming, where as "William Clark" he was engaged in running a restaurant and boarding house opposite the Railroad House in Laramie City, Wyoming Territory. Their second son, Richard Clark Thompson, was born there in 1872.
According to his newspaper obituary in the Laramie Daily Sentinel, Mr. Clark had become a very large and corpulent man, weighing at the time of his death about four hundred pounds. The excessive weight, interfering with and obstructing the action of the heart and lungs, together with a tendency to dropsy, attributed to his death. He was buried at Laramie's Green Hill Cemetery, Row UO, Lot 149, Space 1, but he does not have a headstone.
After William Clark Thompson died, Susannah ran the restaurant in Laramie for a couple more years before finally selling it and moving back in with her mother on the farm in Easton, Illinois about 1876 with her two sons, with everyone reverting back to the original Thompson surname.
The 1880 U. S. Census dated 12 June shows her and the two sons all living with Susannah's mother, the widow Huldah (Denman) Dorrell in Pennsylvania Township, Mason County, Illinois.
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