Joseph THOMPSON
John Butler, the grandfather of Joseph and Mary Elixabeth Nielson's children, sent for his wife's parents. They lived with them at Soda Springs and moved with them to Swan Valley in 1888. He carried on his trade of brick laying and built the church and many brick houses in Soda Springs.
He was a wonderful gardener. He grew gooseberries, English currents and red currents. If an onion grew beside a carrot it had to come out. His rows were always perfectly straight.
Both Joseph and Elizabeth Thompson were tall people standing about the same height - six feet tall. Joseph Thompson was never known to say a cross word or to swear. Night and morning prayers were always said in their home.
At the last of his life he suffered agonies with an infected toe that rotted. He used to pray that he might not have to suffer so. He was 88 when he died.
Mary Ann Lewis Thompson emigrated to Salt Lake the last year of the Civil War in 1865. She walked when she was 23 walked with two other girl friends across the plains the whole way in a hand cart company. She was betrothed to one of the Mantle sons. But when she arrived she found that he had died.
John Oxford saw her photograph when he was visiting Aunt Til Mantle. He fell in love with her face. At some time after her arrival he presented her with a lovely shawl which she would not accept. They were married in the Endowment House and lived in Salt Lake City for some time Their first child, Will, was born there.
He married Elizabeth Kennel 12 Apr 1841 at St. Michael's, Coventry, Warwick, England . Elizabeth Kennel was born at Fillongley, Warwick, England 15 Mar 1805 daughter of Samuel Downs Kennel and Frances Whitmore .
They were the parents of 4
children:
Anna Kennel Thompson
born 6 Oct 1835.
Mary Ann Lewis Thompson
born 20 Feb 1842.
William Thompson
christened 4 Aug 1844.
Enoch Thompson
born 25 Dec 1846.
Joseph Thompson died 28 Nov 1906 at Palisade, Bingham, Idaho .
Elizabeth Kennel died 25 Jun 1895 at Palisade, Bingham, Idaho .