Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1917 — Untitled [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Charles Sylvester Thomson Charles Sylvester Thomson, a former resident of Rensselaer, died at his home in Chicago at 6343 Peoria street, Saturday, September 29, 191=7, at 11:45 p. m, of heart and kidney trouble. The body brought here for burial Tuesday, October 2, and taken direct to St. Augustine’s Catholic church where th© funeral services were held and burial made in Mt. Calvary cemetery, south of town, beside his mother and two brothers. Deceased was born June 7, 1882, and was 35 years, 3 months and 22 days of age at the time of his death. He was born and educated in Rensselaer, but had lived in Chicago and Hammond for the past eight years. Mr. Thomspn was a blacksmith by trade, but on account of failing health had not worked at his trade for some time; he was also a drug clerk in Hammond at one time. His health had been failing for the past eight years, but he had been able to be about most of the time, his last sickness being only of about two weeks’ duration. He was a patient sufferer and never murmured. The deceased/ is survived by a wife, his father, James Thomson, of Chicago, one brother, Terance, of Detroit, Michigan, and one sister, Mrs. Charles Bowers, of Rensselaer. Two brothers. John William and Pierre Richard, a sister, Fannie May, and his mother, preceded him in death only a short time previous. * *