Tryon and Thompson

In the previous post, I added this picture of Lora Belle Tryon.  For many years her daughter couldn't find a record of her mother's birth - somewhere in Kansas.  My husband and I made a trip to Baxter Springs one time to search in their fine library and museum  We didn't find what we needed, but had a wonderful visit there.  Finally, while searching census records, I found this:

1885 Kansas, Sedgwick Co, Kechi Twp, p 19, line 18
Cooley, Isaac, 79, b Pennsylvania / Caroline, 49, b Pennsylvania // Adeline, 17, b Pennsylvania; Emma, 14, b Pennsylvania
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Tryon, H Z, 36, b unknown / Mary, 21, b unknown // Olive May, 2, b unknown; line 25  Baby, 7 days, female, b unknown

That Baby was Lora, 7 days old, in Kechi Township.  Hooray!  Found at last.  Thank goodness for the state census records!  The interesting thing about this record is that it's just a few miles down the road from where her great-grandson currently lives with his family.  He was born in Oklahoma and grew up in Michigan, but has for quite a few years has lived in Park City, just down the road from where his great-grandmother was born.  

Lora had two sisters, one older and one younger.  The younger sister, Rosetta, died when she was 14 years old.  I never have looked for the cause of her death.  Two other children were born, both boys, Walter Harrison Tryon who only lived about 6 months, and Charles Harry Tryon, who was in his 60s when he died.

Hiram Zachariah "Zack" Tryon and wife Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" 

(Thompson) Tryon with daughters Olive, Lora and Rosetta.

Zack Tryon was born in Connorsville, Fayette County, Indiana on the 4th day of February 1849.  He is listed on three census records in Indiana.  

1850 Indiana, Franklin Co, Metamora Twp, 17 October
48/48  Noah Tyron, 35, farmer, b Ohio / Mary, 35, b Indiana // . . . Zachery, 1, b Indiana . . . 

1860 Indiana, Franklin Twp, Metamora Twp, Metamora, 27 July
855/784  Mary A Tryon, 43, manager of farms, vore 370, vope 500, b Indiana // Isaac, 21, farm hand, school, b Indiana; Noah, 17, school, b Indiana; Mary A, 15, school, b Indiana; Martha, 13, school, b Indiana; Zachariah, 12, school, b Indiana; Lavina, 10, school, b Indiana; Nicholas, 6, school, b Indiana

1870 Indiana, Franklin Co, Metamora Twp, Metamora, 18 July 
199/210  Alley, John, 31, engineer, vope 1000, b Ohio / Martha J, 24, keeping house, b Ohio // Colonel, 4, b Ohio; William, 3, b Ohio; Alley, John, 6/12, b Nov, b Indiana /// Tryon, Lavina, 19, at home, b Indiana; Tryon, Zachariah, 22, teamster, b Indiana . . . 

Martha Alley is Zach's sister.

Sometime between 1870 and 1880 Zack came to Kansas as shown in the 1885 census record above.  He was living with his uncle, brother to his mother Mary Ann (Cooley) Tryon.  Isaac's portrait and an article appear in the Portrait And Biographical Album of Sedgwick County, Kansas; Chapman Brothers 1888, Pages 329 - 330, A portrait of Mr Cooley graces an adjoining page.

When Zack appears on the 1880 census in Kansas, it is next door to the William Thompson family and included in that list of children is daughter Mary E.  Mary and Zack were married on October 27, 1880, in Wichita, Kansas.  He was 31 and she was 17.  

---Marriage record: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/mhgs/S-T.htm

Sedgwick County Marriage Records, Book B, p 106

Thompson, Mary to Tryon, H Z, 27 October 1880

Mollie Thompson and Zack Tryon

Zack is listed on these two city directory records:

Wichita City Directories
1887: Tryon, H Z, fr Ind, speculator, r 234 Ohio
1888: Tryon, Hiram Z, liveryman, (T & Loper), r 839 n Mkt

Zach died in 1922.  Mollie died in 1929.  

☙Death certificate Kansas 
Mr Hiram Zack Tryon, meat inspector - Dold Packing Co, age 73 yrs, 1 mo, 21 ds, residing 1906 Arkansas Ave, City, city resident 33 years, married, husband of Mrs Mollie E Tryon, died at 11:45 am on 3-25-22, of lobar pneumonia contributed to by mitral heart lesion.  Born 2-4-1849, Connersville, Ind; father Noah Tryon b NY;  mother ______ Cooley b NY.  Informant: Mrs Mollie E Tryon, 1906 Arkansas Ave.   Burial Highland Cemetery, 3-27-22.  Undertaker: Gills, city.

☙Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Sedgwick Co, Kansas, Sunday, 26 March 1922, page 3, col 2

H Z TRYON DIES, Was Wichitan Since 1878 and Dold Employee for Twenty Years

     H Z Tryon, 73 years old, Wichitan since 1878, who had been an inspector and meat piler employed by the Dold packing company for the last 20 years, died of pneumonia at 11:40 o'clock Saturday morning at his home, 1906 Arkansas avenue.  He was taken ill Monday morning.
     Mr Tryon came from Connersville, Ind, his native state.  For a while he farmed, one of his farms being situated on what is now Twenty-fifth street in North Wichita.  During the boom days Mr Tryon was manager of Oak Street stables, Oak (now Murdock avenue) and Main streets.
     Surviving Mr Tryon are his widow, Mrs Mollie E Tryon; two daughters, Mrs William F Buckeridge, 1149 North Market Street, and Mrs J M Chandler, Oklahoma City; his son, Harry Tryon, 1906 Arkansas avenue; a sister, Mrs M E Genn, Chicago, and one broher [sic] N W Tryon, Frederick, Md.  Eight grandchildren also suvice [sic].
     Funeral services will be conducted at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Gill Funeral home.  Burial will be in Highland cemetery.

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☙Death certificate, Kansas
Mary Elizabeth Tryon, age 65 years 1 month, 18 days, of 921 Litchfield, City, widow - husband Zack Tryon, died 31 January 1929, at St Francis Hospital, Wichita, Sedgwick Co, Kansas, from pneumonia.  Birthplace: Fleming, Kentucky; father: Wm Thompson, b Fleming Co, Ky; mother: Mary Jane Lytle, b Fleming, Ky.  Informant Wm F Buckeridge, 921 Litchfield.  Burial Highland Cemetery.  Gill Mortuary, Wichita.

☙Obituary: Unidentified newspaper clipping: Mary E Tryon Passes
      Mrs Mary E Tryon, 65, a resident of Wichita for 50 years, died in a local hospital Thursday evening.  Her home was at 921 Litchfield Avenue.
      Mrs Tryon was the widow of the late Zack Tryon, farmer and later with the Dold Packing company, who died seven years ago.  Mrs Tryon was a member of St Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church.  She was born in Fleming, Ky.
      She is survived by two daughters, Mrs J M Chandler, Oklahoma City, and Mrs William Buckeridge, 921 Litchfield Avenue; a son, C H Tryon, Los Angeles; a sister, Mrs W F Edsall, Louann, Ark; five brothers, Robert Thompson, Ft Garland, Colo; Taylor and Sam Thompson, Colorado Springs; Charles Thompson, Anness, and N A Thompson, St Joseph, Mo; 10 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
      Gill mortuary is in charge.

Both are buried in Highland Cemetery, Wichita, Kansas.

Zach and Mollie Tryon

I do have a picture of Zach's mother, Mary Ann Cooley, and I thought I had a picture of his father Noah Tryon.  Turns out, according to an internet descendant of another Tryon, that the photo is of a child of Noah rather than Noah himself, which makes sense since the direct-line-Noah died earlier than a photograph would appear.  Aunt Mary did a lot of research on the Thompson and Cooley and Tryon families and was for many years very involved with the Cooley family organization.  

Aunt Mary had traced Mollie Thompson's line back to:

☙William Thompson born 1840 Fleming Co, Kentucky and Mary Jane Lytle born 1844 Fleming Co, Kentucky

☙William's father A T Thompson born 1811 Virginia and wife Sarah born 1812 Kentucky

☙Mary Jane's Lytle line to Samuel Ramsey Lytle born 1811 in Kentucky and Elizabeth Todd born 1821 in Kenucky

☙their lines to Nathaniel Lytle born 1773 in Virginia and Rebecca Ramsey born 1776 Huntington, Bedford Co, Pennsylvania

☙and John Todd born 1787 and Mary Ann Flynn born 1803 Fleming Co, Kentucky

I am not posting information about them just yet as I have mostly Aunt Mary's excellent research and have not looked at it in a long time - a very long time. It needs a good going-over and updating before I post it.  One of these days . . .

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