TAMPICO TORNADO
September 22, 1911

DEATH OF THOMAS DOW

Thomas DOW an old citizen of Tampico and for many years one of its well known peculiar characters, died last Saturday night at the hospital at Watertown where he had been taken about a month ago from the county institute at Round Grove which had been  his home for the past year on account of his poor health and refusal to permit relatives to succor him. Death was due to pulmonary tuberulosis. The remains were brought here Tuesday morning and taken directly to the Yorktown cemetery where they were interred. Prayer was said at the grave by Rev. POTTER.

The deceased was born June 15, 1833, in New York state and came west to Yorktown with his parents when but a lad. For many years he resided near Yorktown until he moved to Tampico where he lived alone and conducted a machine shop. Financial losses and reverses early in life embittered him against mankind and gave him some peculiar traits and marked him as somewhat excentric.

The surviving relatives are six children as follows: Lincoln and Seward of Colorado, Chester of Texas. Mrs. Henry DAVISON of Colorado, Mrs. Liza MYERS of North Dakota, Mrs. Fred FRANCE of Tampico. Also two brothers, H, H. (Tip) DOW of California and Clay of Mississippi.