The Wilkes-Barre Times, 4 February 1907
(Pennsylvania)

NANITCOKE, Feb. 4.—On Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock Thomas Tonkin, of Market street, passed to his reward after an illness of a few days of bronchial pneumonia.
Deceased, who was 63 years of age, was one of Nanticoke’s oldest residents, coming here in 1874. He was born in Cornwall, England. In 1872 he left his native land for this country and settled at Wilkes-Barre, in which place he only remained for two years, coming to this town, where he had since resided and enjoyed the acquaintance of many of its residents. Mr. Tonkin had been a member of the Knights of Pythias for the past thirty years, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of the past twenty-one years. Besides his wife only one sister survives in Cornwall, England. The funeral will take place on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Rev. H. L. Ellsworth, pastor of the M. E. church, will have charge of the services. Interment will be made in the Nanticoke cemetery.

Contributed by Bob Bolitho