Saturday, December 31, 2011  Surname Saturday - William Thacker,
the Last and the First  William Thacker's headstone, courtesy of
No, this post isn't about anything in the Bible. It's about
something I came across while finishing up my review of the
McFarland-Red Corn family documents. Yes, I have finally
finished going through all the documents I have on my wife's
family! Can't believe it took as long as it did, but I learned a
lot about them in the process, and got to see a lot of new
document types along the way. This week, I found myself looking
at the last document (hence the "last" in the title of this
post) - the death certificate for William Thacker, son of Samuel
Thacker (my wife's 3rd-great-grandfather) and his second wife
Nannie Roberts. He died at the age of 39, and was apparently
married at the time (it lists Lucille Thacker, wife, as the
informant). When I looked at the cause of death, it listed three
causes. The primary cause was pulmonary embolus, which my
medically-inclined family and friends