Here is my post: I dont know when or where Isham and Elzirah were married. The first place I found them is the 1855 Macoupin Co., ILL. state census. Isham and Elzirah went to Nebraska in about 1864-5, and a son, Isham Carroll, "see below" was born there and on to Carroll Co., Arkansas by about 1867 and Elzirah died 1874-76, as Isham married Martha Ann Wyatt in Carroll Co., in 1877. 1860 census, Macoupin Co., IL. lists "Sarah Farris", age 53, b. Tennessee in house with Isham and family. Sarah is surely Elzirah's mother. Also the 1860 census says Isham and Elzirah born in Illinois with both their parents born Tennessee. Isham and Martha moved to McIntosh Co., Indian Territory, Oklahoma in 1892 and are buried in Bixby Cemetery, Bixby, Tulsa Co., OK. Isham and Elzirah's children: Sarah, b. 1855, d. 1858, Macoupin Co., IL., Cemetery records William G., b. & d. 1856, Macoupin Co., IL., Cemetery records Mary Jane, b. 1858, Married James B. Miller, Carroll Co., Ar James Samuel, b 1859, Macoupin Co., IL., d. Tulsa Co., Ok. 1838, married, Margaret C. Wood, Martha Arnold and Mollie Josie McGuire. Doctor Franklin, b. 1862, Macoupin Co., IL., d. abt. 1940, Trinity co., Texas, married, Mary Elizabeth Moore, Carroll Co., AR. Willis Newton, b. 1864, Macoupin Co., IL. d. 1951, McAlister, Pittsburgh Co., Ok. married Elizabeth Raines and Susan Ann Pierce. Isham Carroll, b 1866 Douglas Co., Nebraska, d. 1948 McAlister, Pittsburgh Co., Ok., married Elizabeth F. Brown. Spicy Anneta, b., 1868, Mo. No other info. John Wilson, b. 1870, Mo., married Jennie Tomlinson, Carroll Co., AR Leonard Jasper, b.1872, Mo., d., 1916, Soper, Choctaw Co., OK. married Mary Traintwilla Kennedy, "my gr- parents" Buford Alexander, b., 1873, Carroll Co., Ar., married Rosie E. Miller. Children of Isham and Martha Ann Wyatt: Charles Hanna, b. 1877, Carroll Co., AR. d. abt. 1951 Harris Co., Texas, m. Ida B. Montgomery, 1902 Rosa C. b. 1878, Carroll Co., d. 1946, Bixby, Tulsa Co., Ok., m. Samuel Vowell and John W. Crabtree. Marion Elliott, b. 1880, Carroll Co., d. 1955, Washington Co., Ar., m. Paralee Montgomery, sister of Ida. Pearl Rebecca, b. 1883, Missouri ?, m. 1902, McIntosh Co., Ok., Samuel Wesley Stewart Martha Alice, b. 1884, m. 1902, McIntosh Co., Ok., Jason Emerson Stewart, bro. of Samuel Maton Hale, b. 1886, Carroll Co., d. 1937, Okmulgee Co., Ok., m. Maudie Landrum, Jessie Goforth, and Willie Nimmo Joseph Gabriel, b. 1886, Carroll Co., d. 1964, Creek Co., Ok. M. 1907, Tulsa Co., Ok. Mattie Hamm. Henry J. b. 1890, Carroll Co., d. 1907, Roosevelt Co., NM Obituary of Isham Marion Thompson THE TULSA TRIBUNE - TULSA, OKLAHOMA Tuesday 10 January 1933 PREACHER TO PIONEERS OF FOUR FRONTIERS ISHAM THOMPSON TO REST AT BIXBY TODAY The restless figure of a 97 year old minister who four times pioneered into America's vanishing frontiers and whose four generations of decendents estimate their numbers, living and dead at more than 800, was to be buried this afternoon in Bixby Cemetery following funeral services at 2:30PM in the Glen Pool High School Auditorium. Isham Marion Thompson died at the home of his son, M. E. Thompson, four miles southwest of Jenks Sunday night. He had been ill and confined to his bed with pneumonia for nine days and on Thursday before his death, he arose before other members of the household and called for breakfast. His close friend of the past two years, Rev. Samuel B. Wagoner of the First Christian Church of Kieffer, was to conduct the services. Gordon Barnes was in charge of the arrangements. Thompson was born in Illinois 26 December 1835 of Dutch and Irish parents. At the age of 23 he was converted to Christianity and induced to enter the ministry by John S. Swiney, a well known evangelist of the time. In half a dozen midwest states, Thompson rode or walked long miles to preach to pioneers. BIBLE HIS PRIMER Uneducated, he began to study at this time, learning to read with the new testament for his Primer. Practically all his reading was done at night by the light of a pine cone torch blazing in the open fireplace of his log cabin home. He would mark the words in the testament that he did not know and take them to Swiney for explanation. In later years, his family claim, he could have rewritten this testament from memory. His first wife bore him 11 children, the second 8. Seventeen of the 19 grew to maturity, 16 lived to be married and 11 survive. All but one or two planned to be present at the funeral. The survivors are: Jim Thompson, 74, Bixby; Dr, Franklin Thompson, 72, Trinity, TX; Willis Newton Thompson, 68, Crowder; Isham Carroll Thompson, 66, Seminole; Buford Alexander Thompson, 59, Kiowa; Charles Hanna Thompson, 55, Stidham; Mrs. Rosie Crabtree, 54, living near Sapulpa; Marion Eliot Thompson, 52, at whose home he died; Mrs. Pearl Stewart, 50, Sapulpa; Maton Hale Thompson, 46, Mounds; and Joseph Gabriel Thompson, 45, Sapulpa HOMESTEADED In 1863 he migrated with an ox team and wagon to Nebraska, where he took up a homestead. One winter there was enough, however, and the next year he moved southward to Arkansas, settling near Eureka Springs. On this trip he worked his cows in the yoke with the oxen during the day and milked them at night. Here he established a vineyard, and organized a church in his log cabin with a membership of five taken from the sparcely settled neighborhood. His family learned to make clothes and blankets from the wool they sheared from their sheep. He would walk from 25 to 35 miles in order to fill a preaching appointment. Oftentimes he would require two days walking each way in order to fill a single nights engagement. Of these trips he would hold meetings where ever he stopped for the night if an audience could be found, it being his aim to preach every night. Sometimes he made trips on horseback. His family recalled that on many of these he often wrapped a common oil cloth about for a slikker. TO 'TERRITORY' In 1892 his sons became restless to move to the Indian Territory. Thompson went along. They lived near Eufaula and Checotah. Thompson continued to preach although there were no public buildings and he held his meetings in brush arbors and private homes. He made several evangelical trips at this time, some of his meetings lasting as long as a week. At Fawn he established a church. In 1907, at the age of 71, when other Oklahomians were thinking of statehood, Thompson followed two of his sons to New Mexico, where he planned to take up a homestead. This he never did, although he stayed and preached in the new country for nearly four years. He continued active almost until the time of his death, and last August led the congregation of a Jinks church in prayer, steadying himself with his two canes as he spoke. Today his decendents live in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Most of them south of Tulsa, in Eastern Okla. Leonard F. Thompson, Len in Ca.