Sumner and Bridgeport, IL. Nan, a school teacher, was the sister of Kate Edmondson who married Charles
Corrie
(ref.
1.1.5.1.6.7.) and of John William Edmondson who married Ellen Schrader (ref.
1.1.5.4.6.11.) In
1886, after farming for several years south of Sumner and adding five children to his household, Newt took his
family in a covered wagon across Illinois and Missouri to Mingonia, Barber Co, KS. (near Medicine Lodge)
where he was a homesteader and farmer; in 1888 he moved the family to Isabel, Pratt County, KS. Thomas and
Nancy were life-long Methodists and did not believe in dancing, card playing and working on Sunday. Newt
regularly had a time of Bible reading and prayer with his sons and hired men on the farm before they started
their day's work. Newt used his carpenter skills in many ways, he built cabinets, coffins and helped build the
Methodist church in Isabel. In 1908, Newt filed a homestead claim in Baca Co, CO soon after daughter Grace
homesteaded in that area; Thomas first built a sod house and then a larger, seven-room adobe house on his
land; on 20 Aug 1908, along with friends and neighbors, Thomas and Nan moved by covered wagon the 225 miles
(it took them 8 days to make the trip) to the new land Newt called "Pretty Prairie," a name that stuck for the
community and for the first school. Nan and Newt celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on 2 Jun 1921 with
all their children and 18 grandchildren present. Thomas Newton died of pneumonia 12 Feb 1922 in Stonington,
Baca County, CO. Nan was blind for the last twenty years of her life and lived her final years with daughter
Grace and her family, most of them in Grace's adobe house on Pretty Prairie near Walsh, CO; Nancy died 3 Feb
1940 and is buried beside her husband in Minneapolis Cemetery, Baca Co, CO seven miles north of Walsh;
children, (
1) Edgar Manson (2) Roy Almon, (
3) Ezra Samuel, (
4) Grace Edmondson, (
5) Carl Milford,
(
6) John Frank.
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