Person:Mary Shively (12)

Benjamin F. Thomas m. Mary R. Shively, Sept. 10 1867--Miami Co., IN Index of Marriages, C 1 437. Obituary from Barber County Index, Thurs., July 26, 1934. Death of Mrs. B. F. Thomas The death on Sunday July 22, 1934 at 324 S. Holyoke, Wichita, Kansas of Mrs. B.F. Thomas brought sorrow to three generations of descendents, some of whom had lived happily with her under the same roof since 1929. Mrs. Thomas resided with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Thomas, her granddaughter, Mrs. Ernest Warden and husband and two great grandchildren, Madelyn and Jamie Sproat, children of Mrs. Warden by a former marriage. Born Mary Rheuma Shiveley in Lattisburg, Ohio, June 7, 1847, Mrs. Thomas moved to Indiana with her mother in 1865. She attended the Young Women's Seminary in Wabash and later taught school among the Miami indians and in other schools. In 1867 she married Benjamin Thomas, and in October 1884, with her husband, family and mother she moved to Pratt county. She served on the first election board of the township, on the first school board, and organized the first Sunday school and Women's Missionary Society. She moved to Pratt, living there until 1908, when she came to Medicine Lodge, residing here until 1929. Mr. Thomas died here in 1916. Her living children are Elba Leonard, Maysville, Mo., Mrs. Thomas, Wichita, J.E. Thomas, Gettysburg, S.D., Katherine Post, Medicine Lodge, Eva T. Dowell, Wellsford, Kansas, and Emil Thomas, Pocatello, Idaho. She is survived also by a brother, twenty-one grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Funeral services were held this (Wednesday) afternoon at the Methodist Church conducted by Rev. Cummings, a former pastor, and interment made beside her husband in the family lot in Highland Cemetery."