Thompson Family Rest Site
101 Elizabeth Street,
Shoal Lake

Designation Date: November 22, 1988
Designation Authority: The Town of Shoal Lake
Present Owner: The Town of Shoal Lake

This little plot of land within the town of Shoal Lake was actually a family burial site of the Thompson family. Matt Thompson, the community's first permanent settler, arrived here in the 1890s, and became a well known and successful business figure. While the graves of the interred are unmarked, the plaque attached to a boulder identifies the following family members buried here, beginning in 1891: Adam, Charles, Elizabeth (Thompson) Tinck, William, Mary (Thompson) Robinson, Hannah (Thompson) Richards and Baby, Elizabeth (Mannen) Thompson, Joseph and Jane (Thompson) Fulton.