History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

              1160 HISTORY OF AVINNEBAGO COUNTY.
tiers of Clayton toAvnship. Mrs. Thompson was born September 5, 1857, in Clayton toAvnship and there went to school AAdth her husband AA^hen they Avere children. She was a woman of noble Christian character, a loving wife and indulgent mother, and Avas beloved by all for her many womanly virtues. She died on August 18, 1902, at the family home, and her body Avas laid to rest in Clayton cemetery.
Of six children born to Air. and Mrs. Thompson, Mabel Grace, the eldest, is married to Mr. AValter H, Pearson, a farmer on the home place, and they have two children, Irwin and Harold. AVil¬ liam J., the second child, born NoAT-ember 14, 1878, died November 7, 1883. Cyrus, born December 25, 1882, lives on a part of the home farm, engaged in farming, and also has a sand quarry on the place. He married Aliss Lulu Jones, who was born at Neenah, a daughter of AVilliam and Anna Jones, the father being chief of police of that city.. Sarah, the fourth child, is married to Mr. Joseph Parmenter, of Neenah, and has one child, aTz. : Ches¬ ter L. Edith was born October 8, 1890, and died December 27, 1890.   One child died in infancy, unnamed, October 19, 1889.
C. W. Thrall, one of the early pioneer settlers and today one of the oldest and most respected citizens of AVinnebago county, was born in Johnstown, Alontgomery county, Ncav York, on November 25, 1818, and is a son of John.and Rebecca (Ayres) Thrall, natives of Ncav England. His grandfather, also John Thrall, was a descendant of the old Dutch family of that name, AA^ho came to America in the seventeenth century and settled in New England. In 1837 during Mr. Thrall's youth he AVorked at various occupations in both Pennsylvania and Ohio for some seven years and then decided to try farming. He rented a farm in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, where his parents and faniily joined him in 1844, coming here from St. Lawrence county, New York. They remained here for only eighteen months, however, having become interested in the new then territory of AA^consin and the many advantages it held out to pioneers. They decided to brave the hardships incident to the settling of a new country and on May 5, 1846, gathered together their belongings and started for the AVest. They arrived in AVinnebago county, AA'^is- consin, on June 9 of the same year and settled on the in'esent farm in section 28, Utica township, where Mr. Thrall has since resided. His farm of over 200 acres is in a high state of cultiva¬ tion, improved with a large new commodious and modern resi¬ dence, barns and other .outbuildings, and the place is equipped