Elijah Clifford Thompson and Lois Aurora Garrison
Husband Elijah Clifford THOMPSON 1 2
AKA: Cliff Born: 27 Sep 1874 - Elkton, Hickory Co, Missouri 3 4 5 Died: 26 Jun 1950 - St Mary's Infirmary, Galveston, Texas 4 Buried: 27 Jun 1950 - Fairview Cemetery, League City, Galveston Co, Texas
Father: Tipton THOMPSON (1832-1908) 6 Mother: Evaline COON (1841-1936) 6 7
Marriage: 1902 - Texas 3
Other Spouse: Rosa Augusta HOOD (Abt 1875-Bef 1902) - 30 May 1895 - Texas City, Galveston Co, Texas
Events in his life were:
• Residence, Pleasant Valley, Dallas Co, Texas, 4 Jun 1904
• Census, Pct. 3, Dallas Co, Texas, 27 Apr 1910
• Census, Pct. 3, Dallas Co, Texas, 19 Jan 1920
• Residence, 804 11th Ave N, Texas City, Texas, 1950
Wife Lois Aurora GARRISON 3 8
Born: 4 Jul 1881 - Liberty Grove, Dallas Co, Texas 3 8 9 Died: 26 Jul 1930 - John Sealy Hospital, Galveston, Galveston Co, Texas 10 11 Buried: 28 Jul 1930 - Fairview Cemetery, League City, Galveston Co, Texas
Father: William F GARRISON (1841-1882) 9 Mother: Nancy Elvira POOVEY (1846-1936) 9 12
Other Spouse: Frank JONES (1878-1897) 13
Children
1 M William Clifford THOMPSON 14
Born: 4 Jun 1904 - Rowlett, Dallas Co, Texas 15 Died: 1 Jan 1979 - Cleveland, Liberty Co, Texas 16 Buried: 4 Jan 1979 - Fairview Cemetery, League City, Galveston Co, TexasSpouse: Lola Aline LANGLEY (1911-1962) 14 Marr: 9 Feb 1929 - Bermuda, Dimmit Co, Texas 17Spouse: Catherine HOMRIGHAUS (1907-1975) 18 19 Marr: Abt 1950Spouse: Beatrice ??? (1906-1970) Marr: Abt 1968
2 F Vivian THOMPSON 10
Born: 1 Apr 1897 - Dallas Co, Texas 10 Died: 17 Oct 1967 - Indianapolis, Marion Co, Indiana 10 Buried:Spouse: Harvey Dwight GARRISON (1892-1937) 10
3 F Ollie Elizabeth THOMPSON 3
Born: 1903 - Texas 3 Died: Deceased Buried:Spouse: Marshall Bryant STAFFORD (Abt 1900- )Spouse: Unknown WILSON (Abt 1898- ) 4
4 M Hedie THOMPSON 20
Born: 9 Feb 1906 - Dallas Co, Texas 3 20 Died: 23 Mar 1913 - Dallas Co, Texas 20 Buried: Mar 1913 - Mills Cemetery, Garland, Dallas Co, Texas
5 M Dwight THOMPSON 20
Born: 31 May 1911 - Dallas Co, Texas 20 Died: 14 Mar 1913 - Dallas Co, Texas 20 Buried: Mar 1913 - Mills Cemetery, Garland, Dallas Co, Texas
General Notes (Husband)
1910 Dallas Co, Texas Census Pct. 3, Vol. 37, ED 88, Sheet 12
THOMPSON, E. Clifford head 34 MO CA MO Farmer
Lois wife 27 TX SC SC
Daniel son 13 TX MO TX
Ollie dau 7 TX MO TX
Clifford son 5 TX MO TX
Hedie son 3 TX MO TX
THOMPSON, J.J. hired hand 23 SC SC SC Farmer
Cliff, Lois, Daniel, and J.J. can read. Cliff and Lois have been married 8 years - 2nd marriage for Cliff.
1920 Dallas Co, Texas Census Pct. 3, Vol. 46, ED 91, Sheet 7, Line 4
THOMPSON, Cliff head 41 MO MO MO Farmer
Lois wife 38 TX TN TN
William C. son 15 TX MO TX
Ollie dau 17 TX MO TX
To E. C. and L. A. Thompson, Pleasant Valley, June 4, a boy. - June 12, 1904, Dallas Morning News, p. 32, col. 6.
General Notes (Wife)
Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company. 1892.
Carnegie Public Library, Tyler, Texas
pp. 634-635
AUGUSTUS GARRISON.---This gentleman, an enterprising young farmer, residing near Pleasant Valley, Dallas county, Texas, dates his birth in York county, South Carolina, August 14, 1869.
William F. Garrison, his father, was born in York county, October 14, 1841, and was there married, November 24, 1865, to Miss Nancy H. E. Poovey. She too, was a native of the same county, born August 23, 1846. Four years after their marriage, in 1869, they moved to Bradley county, Arkansas. Following are the names of William F. Garrison’s brothers and sisters: Peter; John; James, who was killed in the war; Sallie, deceased, wife of David Jackson; Mary, deceased; and Zeine. William F. was next to the youngest of the family. The members composing the Poovey family are, Duncan; Nancy E., mother of the subject of our sketch; Robert; Kate; Augustus; James; John; and Mary; the last three are deceased. To William F. Garrison and his wife were born the following named children: Mary C., born September 2, 1866, and is now the wife of William S. Tucker; James P., born January 9, 1868; Augustus; Emma, born February 5, 1871; John D., born July 22, 1872; William, born January 11, 1874; Cordelia E., born October 22, 1875; Nancy, born January 11, 1878; and Lois, born July 4, 1881. In 1879, Mr. Garrison moved from Arkansas to Texas, where he rented land and farmed for three years. His death occurred October 6, 1882, at the age of forty-one years.
After their father’s death, Augustus and his brother, J. P., continued to live with their mother and cultivate the farm. After renting for five years, they bought 120 acres of improved land for their mother, and paid for it. They have since purchased 200 acres for themselves. All this land is well fenced, eighty acres of the first farm and 130 acres of the other being under cultivation. When the family first came to Texas, and at the father’s death, they were in limited circumstances, but the sons went earnestly to work to secure a home and now have their mother comfortably fixed. The are industrious young men, upright and honest in all their dealings, and are bound to make their mark in the world. They had but little opportunity for schooling, but have acquired sufficient education to intelligently conduct their farming operations. During the war, Mr. Garrison’s father served in the Confederate army and at that time contracted disease from which he never recovered, and which caused his death. Both parents had united with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and three of their daughters and the subject of our sketch are members of the same church.
TWO KILLED--ONE WOUNDED.
Sensation and Lurid Scene at Pleasant
Valley Church Yesterday.
A. A. GARRISON AND FRANK JONES KILLED.
Tom Jones Mortally Wounded--Frank Jones Had Wronged
Miss Garrison--Nervy Sixteen-Year-Old Boy--Sor-
row in Two Households.
An unusually large congregation assembled at the Pleasant Valley church, five miles east of Garland, yesterday forenoon to hear the Rev. Dr. Patterson, of Ellis county, preach.
The preliminary service of song and prayer was over, and the preacher was about to announce his text, and the men and boys on the outside were throwing away their quids of tobacco and cigarette stubs and getting ready to go inside, when Augustus A. Garrison appeared in front of the church, and walking up to Frank Jones, said:
"Now, d--n you, I've got you," and shot him dead.
Tom Jones, brother to Frank, who was close by, pulled a pistol, whereupon Garrison proceeded to shoot at him, the second shot from Garrison's pistol shattering Jones' left thigh bone, felling him to the ground. But Jones, raising himself on his elbow, continued to shoot, but it was not until the sixth shot he got Garrison. The bullet entered near Garrison's heart and ranged upward, killing him instantly.
The congregation stampeded in the wildest fashion. The women screamed and fainted, children were run over and trampled upon, excited men rushed hither and thither and horses and mules broke loose and ran away, tearing up vehicles, and the utmost confusion reigned.
Garrison's brother got hold of his dead kinsmen's pistol, and Will Jones, a brother to Frank and Tom, appeared on the scene with a big 45 gun, and there would undoubtedly have been additional bloodshed had not neighbors interposed and kept the men apart.
Tom Jones, in a dying condition, was removed to his home. The surgeons announced that the bone of the left thigh was shattered for a distance of six inches and that the patient was dangerously wounded, and his condition rendered still more critical by the great loss of blood.
The bodies of the dead were left as they fell until Justice Swim, of Garland, could come out and view them, when they were removed to their respective homes, and prepared for interment.
August A. Garrison was 25 years old, and the son of Widow Garrison. There are three surviving brothers and several sisters. Frank Jones was 20 years old and Tom, 16. The latter were the sons of Jesse Jones, who lives a mile from the church and half a mile from Widow Garrison, both families highly respectable and well-to-do. They have lived neighbors for years. The children grew up together, attending the same school and same Sunday school from the time they were carried to church as sleeping infants until yesterday.
The boys in both families were sober and industrious; they lived in a local option precinct, and whisky had nothing to do with the tragedy.
Frank Jones had seduced, or was charged with having seduced Garrison's sister, the young lady giving birth to a child last spring. August Garrison told young Jones at the time that if he did not repair the wrong by marrying the girl, he would kill him.
In order to avoid a collision, Jones left the neighborhood and did not return until last Saturday. Sunday morning, he went over to the church, as he had been in the habit of doing all his life. He was probably expecting trouble, as he had a six-shooter on him, but did not get to use it, as Garrison shot him three times and killed him before he could pull it.
The funeral of Garrison took place this forenoon and that of Frank Jones will occur this afternoon, both from the same church and to the same cemetery near the church. The people in the neighborhood turning out on both occasions and extending their sympathies and condolence to both stricken families.
Constable C. P. Bane, of Garland, who was in the city, said to a Times Herald reporter:
"Frank Jones, who was shot three times by Gus Garrison, did not make an attempt to pull his pistol, and it would have done him no good if he had, as it would not work. It was a fine pistol, but it had become so rusty that it could not be cocked. It was a 38-calibre Winchester Colt, and had only two loads in it.
"Garrison and Tom Jones did their shooting at very close range, but Tom did very poor shooting. Garrison shot him down and was standing nearly over him and would, undoubtedly, have killed him the next shot, had not Tom got in a vital shot, which made him drop his pistol, which he was pointing, and in the act of shooting, stagger and fall.
"Jones quickly reloaded his pistol after he got Garrison with the last cartridge in it. Garrison's brother ran up and picked up the pistol Gus had dropped and a third Jones brother put in an appearance with a pistol in his hand, but the people stopped further bloodshed.
"There was one cartridge left in Garrison's pistol and he had another pistol he had not used. Garrison fired five shots, and Tom Jones six.
"Two of Tom Jones' bullets lodged in the church door, which the congregation had fortunately closed. Most of the people in the church jumped out of the windows.
"Miss Garrison, who was the cause of the trouble, is a very young girl, not over fifteen years old."
- June 28, 1897, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 1, col. 3-4.
1 Thompson, Harvey J.
2 1880 Hickory Co, MO Census (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp), 516d.
3 1910 Dallas Co, Texas Census, Pct. 3, Vol. 37, ED 88, Sheet 12.
4 Death Certificate, 36020.
5 1880 Hickory Co, MO Census (http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp).
6 Coon, Raymond.
7 Death Certificate, 7516.
8 1900 Dallas Co, Texas Census (http://search.labs.familysearch.org/), E 132 S 15.
9 Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company. 1892.), 634-635.
10 Garrison, Doug.
11 Death Certificate, 33161.
12 1860 York Co, SC Census (http://files.usgwarchives.net/sc/york/census/1860/), 417.
13 The Dallas Daily Times Herald, June 28, 1897, p. 1, col. 3-4.
14 Thompson, L Elaine Ashby.
15 Social Security Death Index (http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi).
16 Texas State Death Index (http://vitals.rootsweb.com/tx/death/search.cgi).
17 Langley, Inez "Pepper."
18 Obituary, Newton Mary Beall, Galveston Daily News.
19 Texas State Birth Index.
20 Cemetery, Mills, Dallas Co, Texas.
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