Harper County KS Archives Obituaries.....THOMPSON, Elizabeth Timmons  May 22, 1919
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The Harper Advocate 
Harper County
Thursday
May 22, 1919

Elizabeth Timons Thompson.
Elizabeth Timmons THOMPSON, daughter of Joseph and Nellie Timmons, was born
October 29, 1829, near the little town then known as Milford, now called Green
Hill and departed this life on Friday, April 11, 1919 at Springfield, Ohio and
the remains were brought to the home of John W. JAMES, at Attica, on Sunday,
April 13. If she had lived until the 29th day of next October, she would have
been 90 years old.
Her father helped lay out the little town of Milford and built the first house
in it. After a few years he moved back to Ohio, but did not stay but a short
time until he returned to Indiana, making the trip each way in covered wagons.
He entered forty acres of land now owned by Jacob Mann.
She was about nine years old by this time and remembered many incidents along
the way. There was a lot of wild game; all they had to do was take the gun and
help themselves, as there were plenty of wild turkey, geese, ducks, prairie
chickens and deer. She remembered hearing her parents tell of scares of Indianss
gave the white people and many other incidents of their pioneer life. 
On January 12, 1848, she was married to George W. Thompson. The first farm they
owned is now known as the Ben Gephart farm. The last one owned by them was the
William Weighley farm, one half-mile east of Green Hill. They sold this farm and
moved to Harper County, Kansas, where her husband died in 1985. She returned in
a few months to Warren county, her old home, to spend the balance of her days.
Although the had been an invalid for 17 years and her body weak, her mind was
strong and he rmemory good for one of her age.
She was the mother of eleven children, four dying in infancy, and the oldest
daughter, Mollie PERRY, died at Harper, Kansas, four years ago. The remaining
six are Mrs. John W. James of Attica; Simeon of Green Hill, Abby McADAMS of
Harper, Kansas, Henry of Williamsport; Edward of Hoppeston, Ill., and Mrs. Belle
(blank) of Springfield, Ohio., one sister, Mrs. Jane COWGILL, of Williamsport,
besides 40 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren and five
great-great-grandchildren.
She was a member of the church for 71 years. She was a devoted United Brethren.
She believed in her church and was loyal to it to the end. With the passing away
of Mrs. Thompson there has gone from among us an old-fashioned home-builder, a
devoted wife, a loving mother and a good neighbor.
The funeral services were held at Green Hill on Monday, April 14, 1919,
conducted by Rev. O.P. Coooper. Interment was made in the Davis cemetery near
Green Hill. 

(Note: Timons, Timmons, typed as printed.)

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