Thomas Dunsmore, a farmer well known in Oro and Barrie, died suddenly in the Queen's Hotel last Saturday eventin. About three o'clock he went into the hotel and sat down by himself. Some time afterwards, he fell to the floor. he was picked up and placed on a lounge where he was left apparently resting easily. When those who had placed him there returned later, he was dead. Deceased had been suffering from cancer of the throat and asthma for a long time and it was supposed that death was due to suffocation. He was 62 years of age and leaves a wife, two sons and one daughter. A strange thing in connection with his death was the fact that his will was made only that morning. The body was interred at Crown hill on Monday.
....The Barrie Examiner May 9, 1901 pg. 1
Thomas Dunsmore, a farmer well known in Oro and Barrie, died suddenly in the Queen's Hotel last Saturday eventin. About three o'clock he went into the hotel and sat down by himself. Some time afterwards, he fell to the floor. he was picked up and placed on a lounge where he was left apparently resting easily. When those who had placed him there returned later, he was dead. Deceased had been suffering from cancer of the throat and asthma for a long time and it was supposed that death was due to suffocation. He was 62 years of age and leaves a wife, two sons and one daughter. A strange thing in connection with his death was the fact that his will was made only that morning. The body was interred at Crown hill on Monday.
....The Barrie Examiner May 9, 1901 pg. 1
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