Please copy/paste this very interesting obit to William's memorial. Thank you. Cara
The Havre Daily News (MT), 18 June 1940
William Thackeray, County Pioneer, Taken By Death
William Thackeray, 67, pioneer Hill county stockman, who came to Montana about 1886, died at his ranch home on Milk river about 7:30 Sunday evening from a heart attack. Mr. Thackeray tripped himself and fell, striking his head and knee. Upon regaining his feet, he fell again, striking his head.
Mr. Thackeray was a native of Chatham, Ontario, where he was born September 1872, son of William Webster and Barbara MacCormick Thackeray. He was about 14 years old when he came to Hill county in 1887 with his parents with his parents from Michigan, starting, as he was told, in a covered wagon, and ending the trip on one of the construction trains working into Montana. He came first near Toledo, his family settling at Fort Assinniboine for a few years, moving to Havre when the first townsite was sold. The Assinniboine home was the old Herron place.
Thackeray punched cows for a number of years. He worked with Jim McCoy of Chinook, helping McCoy bring a herd up from Texas. He rode a great deal in the vicinity of Cow creek, south of the Bear Paws.
The first "fire guard" along the Great Northern railroad was plowed by Thackeray, the guarding furrow running between Havre and Great Falls, a distance of 121 miles, and plowed both ways. Later he homesteaded on Milk river about ten miles north of Havre.
One year he rode for the Bear Paw pool, "repping" between Havre and Glasgow. That was thirty years ago, and three years ago he made his first trip to Glasgow since that time.
He was married to Anna Engeberg.
Surviving him are his widow; a son, William Webster, and two grandchildren; two daughters, Mrs. Charles Naber, Havre, and Miss Inez Thackeray of Glasgow; two brothers, Jack and Archie; and four sisters, Mrs. Lou Lucke, Mrs. Jessie Ball, and Mrs. Rose Warrick, Havre, and Mrs. Thomas Neal, Raven, Alberta.
The Havre Daily News (MT), 18 June 1940
William Thackeray, County Pioneer, Taken By Death
William Thackeray, 67, pioneer Hill county stockman, who came to Montana about 1886, died at his ranch home on Milk river about 7:30 Sunday evening from a heart attack. Mr. Thackeray tripped himself and fell, striking his head and knee. Upon regaining his feet, he fell again, striking his head.
Mr. Thackeray was a native of Chatham, Ontario, where he was born September 1872, son of William Webster and Barbara MacCormick Thackeray. He was about 14 years old when he came to Hill county in 1887 with his parents with his parents from Michigan, starting, as he was told, in a covered wagon, and ending the trip on one of the construction trains working into Montana. He came first near Toledo, his family settling at Fort Assinniboine for a few years, moving to Havre when the first townsite was sold. The Assinniboine home was the old Herron place.
Thackeray punched cows for a number of years. He worked with Jim McCoy of Chinook, helping McCoy bring a herd up from Texas. He rode a great deal in the vicinity of Cow creek, south of the Bear Paws.
The first "fire guard" along the Great Northern railroad was plowed by Thackeray, the guarding furrow running between Havre and Great Falls, a distance of 121 miles, and plowed both ways. Later he homesteaded on Milk river about ten miles north of Havre.
One year he rode for the Bear Paw pool, "repping" between Havre and Glasgow. That was thirty years ago, and three years ago he made his first trip to Glasgow since that time.
He was married to Anna Engeberg.
Surviving him are his widow; a son, William Webster, and two grandchildren; two daughters, Mrs. Charles Naber, Havre, and Miss Inez Thackeray of Glasgow; two brothers, Jack and Archie; and four sisters, Mrs. Lou Lucke, Mrs. Jessie Ball, and Mrs. Rose Warrick, Havre, and Mrs. Thomas Neal, Raven, Alberta.
Please copy/paste this very interesting obit to William's memorial. Thank you. Cara
The Havre Daily News (MT), 18 June 1940
William Thackeray, County Pioneer, Taken By Death
William Thackeray, 67, pioneer Hill county stockman, who came to Montana about 1886, died at his ranch home on Milk river about 7:30 Sunday evening from a heart attack. Mr. Thackeray tripped himself and fell, striking his head and knee. Upon regaining his feet, he fell again, striking his head.
Mr. Thackeray was a native of Chatham, Ontario, where he was born September 1872, son of William Webster and Barbara MacCormick Thackeray. He was about 14 years old when he came to Hill county in 1887 with his parents with his parents from Michigan, starting, as he was told, in a covered wagon, and ending the trip on one of the construction trains working into Montana. He came first near Toledo, his family settling at Fort Assinniboine for a few years, moving to Havre when the first townsite was sold. The Assinniboine home was the old Herron place.
Thackeray punched cows for a number of years. He worked with Jim McCoy of Chinook, helping McCoy bring a herd up from Texas. He rode a great deal in the vicinity of Cow creek, south of the Bear Paws.
The first "fire guard" along the Great Northern railroad was plowed by Thackeray, the guarding furrow running between Havre and Great Falls, a distance of 121 miles, and plowed both ways. Later he homesteaded on Milk river about ten miles north of Havre.
One year he rode for the Bear Paw pool, "repping" between Havre and Glasgow. That was thirty years ago, and three years ago he made his first trip to Glasgow since that time.
He was married to Anna Engeberg.
Surviving him are his widow; a son, William Webster, and two grandchildren; two daughters, Mrs. Charles Naber, Havre, and Miss Inez Thackeray of Glasgow; two brothers, Jack and Archie; and four sisters, Mrs. Lou Lucke, Mrs. Jessie Ball, and Mrs. Rose Warrick, Havre, and Mrs. Thomas Neal, Raven, Alberta.
The Havre Daily News (MT), 18 June 1940
William Thackeray, County Pioneer, Taken By Death
William Thackeray, 67, pioneer Hill county stockman, who came to Montana about 1886, died at his ranch home on Milk river about 7:30 Sunday evening from a heart attack. Mr. Thackeray tripped himself and fell, striking his head and knee. Upon regaining his feet, he fell again, striking his head.
Mr. Thackeray was a native of Chatham, Ontario, where he was born September 1872, son of William Webster and Barbara MacCormick Thackeray. He was about 14 years old when he came to Hill county in 1887 with his parents with his parents from Michigan, starting, as he was told, in a covered wagon, and ending the trip on one of the construction trains working into Montana. He came first near Toledo, his family settling at Fort Assinniboine for a few years, moving to Havre when the first townsite was sold. The Assinniboine home was the old Herron place.
Thackeray punched cows for a number of years. He worked with Jim McCoy of Chinook, helping McCoy bring a herd up from Texas. He rode a great deal in the vicinity of Cow creek, south of the Bear Paws.
The first "fire guard" along the Great Northern railroad was plowed by Thackeray, the guarding furrow running between Havre and Great Falls, a distance of 121 miles, and plowed both ways. Later he homesteaded on Milk river about ten miles north of Havre.
One year he rode for the Bear Paw pool, "repping" between Havre and Glasgow. That was thirty years ago, and three years ago he made his first trip to Glasgow since that time.
He was married to Anna Engeberg.
Surviving him are his widow; a son, William Webster, and two grandchildren; two daughters, Mrs. Charles Naber, Havre, and Miss Inez Thackeray of Glasgow; two brothers, Jack and Archie; and four sisters, Mrs. Lou Lucke, Mrs. Jessie Ball, and Mrs. Rose Warrick, Havre, and Mrs. Thomas Neal, Raven, Alberta.
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