Thompson W. MIZE

27 Mar 1823 - 21 Nov 1854

Father: James MIZE
Mother: Martha INGRAM

Family 1 : Ruth FULKERSON

  1. +Mary MIZE
  2. +Mariah MIZE
  3. +Amanda MIZE
  4. +Albert MIZE
  5. +Thompson MIZE 
                                       _Joshua MIZE ___
                  _Benjamin MIZE _____|
                 |                    |_Martha (MIZE) _
 _James MIZE ____|
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|                |_Rachel RICHARDSON _|
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|--Thompson W. MIZE 
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|_Martha INGRAM _|
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Notes:

Thompson is identified as a son of James Mize, on a list of "Descendants of James Mize and Patsy Ingram" emailed to me (4 Nov 03) by James Harmon (nomrah38655@hotmail.com). He is listed as having been born in Kentucky.
His date and place of marriage with Ruth Fulkerson was listed by Welma Perin and Nancy Miller (1998) and extracted from a Davis Co., Iowa, Marriage License.
Listed in the 1850 Census for Davis County, Iowa, living in Perry Township, dwelling #50, as Thompson Mize, age 26, a farmer born in Kentucky, with $1800 of Real Estate. Enumerated with him is Ruth, a. 21 bp. KY, assumed to be his wife, and their two children, Mary M., a. 2 bp. IA and Maria, a. 1 bp. IA.
Also listed in the same census, was his wife's sister, Phoebe Harris, with her family living in dwelling #49, and his father-in-law, Richard Fulkerson, and his family in dwelling #56. His brother, Merrill, and his wife, is also living with the Fulkersons at this time.

According to family stories, Thompson traveled with Richard Fulkerson, up and down the State of California, before Richard decided that the family was settling in Santa Rosa.

Thompson died shortly after the Fulkersons arrived in Santa Rosa and was the first to be buried on the hill which became the cemetery northeast of the city. He is buried in the same plot as four children who had been born to his brother, Merrill and Mary (Fulkerson) Mize.

Ray Owen has written an essay, "What Happened to Thompson Mize," in, The Cemeterian, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery Restoration Committee, April 1998, p. 3), which examines the "Coroners or Jury Report of the Boddy [sic] of Thop. Mize," filed 27 November 1854 (original at Sonoma County Records Archive, Santa Rosa, CA).
Thompson apparently drowned in a small pond near Santa Rosa Creek, after falling into it "much intoxicated."

 

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