Floyd D. Williams of Omaha, NE.:Information about Lily Thomas

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Lily Thomas (b. July 9, 1870, d. 1904)

Lily Thomas (daughter of Benjamin F. Thomas and Sarah Roseannah Hamlin) was born July 9, 1870 in Trenton, Grundy, Missouri¹⁰⁹², and died 1904¹⁰⁹³. She married Charles Sidney Williams, Sr., son of Perry C. Williams and Martha Campbell.

Notes for Lily Thomas:
Lily and her sister Minnie T. Weir were two of Sioux County's first school teachers.

Lily arrived with her sister Minnie in Sioux County on February 25, 1887. (Found on page 39 of the History of Sioux County.)

Lily's sister Minnie, wrote; My first view of Sioux County was on February 25, 1887. when sister Lily and I, girls of 16 and 18 respectively, stepped off of the F. E. & M. V. passenger train at Bowen. We were met by our father B. F. Thomas and ushered into the living room of the depot which was occupied by Charles Tubbs a contractor and builder, his wife and two school aged children, Edith and Johnnie. The station agent James Northrup was a bachelor as were most of the inhabitants of Sioux County at that time.

Lily had black eyes and hair, which fell almost to her ankles.

Lily and Sid were estranged when she died. She left and went back to live with her parents in Greenfield, Mo. near or shortly after the birth of their fifth child Floyd on October 3, 1903. The surviving children lived for about year with her mother Sarah Roseannah (Hamlin) Thomas. After Lily's death the children went back to live with their father.

More About Lily Thomas:
Burial: 1904, Greenfield, Dade, Missouri.
Fact: Black eyes and hair.
Occupation: Teacher.

Children of Lily Thomas and Charles Sidney Williams, Sr. are:

Martha V. Williams, b. February 14, 1894, Chadron, Nebraska¹⁰⁹⁴, d. 1928.
Harry Williams, b. 1896¹⁰⁹⁵, d. August 5, 1900.
Charles Sidney Williams, Jr., b. September 15, 1898¹⁰⁹⁶, d. July 22, 1987, Veteran's Hospital, Hot Springs, S D.
+Ethel Williams, b. September 2, 1900¹⁰⁹⁷, d. May 17, 1982¹⁰⁹⁸.
+Floyd Franklin Williams, b. October 3, 1902, Greenfield, Dade Co., Missouri¹⁰⁹⁹, d. February 1986, Grand Island, Hall Co. Nebraska¹¹⁰⁰.