Thomas Tyson

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Thomas TYSON
Born: 28 May 1849 in ENGLAND
Died: 25 Feb 1921 in Mound City, Holt, MO
Buried: in Mount Hope Cemetery, Mound City, Holt, MO
Thomas 's Notes:
1900 CENSUS, Mound City, Holt, MO, ED 81: "Tom", born May 1849, 51 years, born ENG, parents born ENG, married 1 year, no occupation listed. Tom is living with his wife, Lena.
1910 CENSUS, Ward 3, Mound City, Holt, MO, ED 104: 59 years, born ENG, parents born ENG, married 11 years, has own income. Thomas is living with his wife, Lena.
1920 CENSUS, Mound City, Holt, MO, ED 134: 69 years, born ENG, parents born ENG, owns property free and clear, came to the US in 1855, no occupation. Thomas is living with his wife, Lena.
Gone Home, page 405: Thomas TYSON, born 28 May 1849; died 25 Feb 1921 buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, Mound City, Holt, MO. Thomas was the son of Joseph TYSON and Anna FLEMING; the family came to the US on the "Dred Naught" from Liverpool, England, in 1855.


1870 Garnett, Anderson, KS
Thoomas is living with his married sister Mary, her husband Thomas Foster and their children

1880 Dale, Atchison, Missouri
Joseph Tyson 1805 England
Ann 1817 England
Isaac 1848 England
Thomas 1850 England
Wm 1852 England

MO Marriage records
Thomas Tyson Marriage Date: 21 Dec 1898 Marriage Location: Jackson, Missouri Marriage County: Jackson Spouse Name: Lena Offutt

1910-1920 Mound City, MO
Thomas and Lena alone.

www.googlebooks.com - Official Gazette of the US Patent Office -Gates Patent explanation and description
WAGON-BODY. Thomas Tyson. Mound City, Mo. Filed
June 18. 1889. Serial No. 314,746. (No model.)
Claim.— 1. The combination, with a wagon-body provided with a permanent bottom, one stationary side-board on each side, and an end-gate, of a series of pivoted side-boards, each provided with a hinged arm at the rear end, and pins detachably passed through the end-gate, one pin passing also through each arm of the side-boards.
2. The combination, with a wagon-body provided with a permit nent bottom, one stationary side-board on each side, and an end-gate, of pivoted side-boards capable of folding over upon the fixed side boards, each side-board provided with a hinged arm at its rear end. which arms are of unequal length, and pins detach ably passed through the end-gate, one pin passing through the inner end of each of the said arm?, all combined for operation substantially as shown and described.
3. The combination, with a wagon-body provided with a permanent bottom, one stationary side-board on each side, and an end-gale, of pivoted Hide-boards folding over upon the fixed side boards, an arm hinged to the upper pivoted side-board at its rear end capable of folding outward at a right angle therefrom, and another arm hinged to the lower pivoted side-board a slight distance from it* rear end capable of folding outward parallel with the said side-board, and detachable pins passed through the end-gate, one pin being entered into the inner end of each of the said arms, ail combined for operation substantially as shown and described.
also
Warragul Guardian and Buln Buln and Narracan Shire Advocate (Warragul, Vic. : 1879 - 1894 Australian newspaper)
digitalized newspaper
IMPROVED WAGON BODY. A wagon body designed especially for farm use, wherein the boards of one side may be thrown up on thie opposite side, so that articles may be conveniently thrown in as the crop is gathered in the field, and having an adjustable end gate, designed to form a platform to facilitate unloading, has been patented by Mr. Thomas Tyson, of Mound City, Mo. One side of the wagon body consists of three boards and the other side of two boards, thie lower board of the latter side being of a height equal to that of the top and bottom opposite boards, and tile upper board of a height equal to the central board of the opposite side. the lower sections of both sides being secured to the wagon body. The front end gate is made in two sections, the upper section being recessed from the centre outward, a block being inserted in the recesses, hinged at the upper end, whereby the block may be folded upward. The rear end gate is hinged to the bottom of the wagon body, and adapted to extend upward a distance above the sides, side strips being attached to the inner face of the end gate, which, when the end gate is closed, are adapted to extend without the sideboards. The end gate is retained in verti. cal position by hooks engaging eyes screwed in the outer face of the end gate, and an additional fastening is afforded by an eye in the cheek section, to which a hook is pivoted adapted to enter an eye in one of the sideboards. For gathering potatoes, corn, or such articles in a field, the wagon body is arranged with the lowest side next the operator. When the wagon has been filled as high as the upper edge of the first sideboard, the intermediate section is brought over to its normal position, and the filling goes oh, the upper board being finally brought over. If it is desired to have a low wagon body, one central section may be re moved, with the upper section on the opposite side, the upper section of the front end gate being also removed. To adapt this improved construction to an ordinary farm wagon, having two permanent sideboards of equal height, two additional hinged sideboards may be used on one side to equal the height of one additioial aidebomrd oon the other side, or two hinged boards of equal height mar be used on each side.

1900-1920- Mound City, Holt County, Missouri
Thomas TYSON 1851
Lena 1871

obit [Porter Estate Papers] excerpts [see Library] 14 Jan 1903
To wife Lena - $7500.00
To wife Lena - house and grounds where I now live
To wife Lena - Northwest quarter of Section 18, township 63, range 38 in Atchison County, MO
To brothers Isaac and William Tyson and sister Jane Huggins - allthe rest residue and remainder of my estate to be equally divided among them

obit - Porter Estate Papers [see Library]
Thomas Tyson was 7th child of Joseph and Ann Tyson...born 28 May 1849 Grasmere, Westmoreland, England....aug 1855 at age 6 he came to america with parents..sailed from Liverpool on vessel "Dreadnaught" bujilt of Red Cross Lines by Currier and Townsend, Newburyport, MA 1853...wood hull 3 mast medium clipper ship with crew of 34..voyage of 28 days in steerage. they arrived they docked on the North River in NYC...no immigration officers present...boarded the train in NYC and rode to Kaskaskia, IL...traveling prest of the way by wagon as no railroad from that point on and settled in Todd's Point, Shelby County, Illinois....sent in 1866 to West Indies for his health where he was a manage in a sugar plantation on island of Santa Cruz..by 1868 he was living with sister Mary Ann Foster in Kansas...1870 he and his father came to Missouri...purchased 700 acres in Atchison county north of Mound City....1871 the family moved from IL to MO to part of the tract purchased in 1870 and owned by Thomas until his death....interment Mt. Hope Cemetery
survived by sister Mrs Edward Huggins...sister Mayr Tyson foster died 1875in Garnet, KS..brothers James of Goodrich, KS and Joseph of Findlay, IL and John, Isaac and William...thomas married 21 Dec 1898 to Lena Offutt of Kansas City [Missouri] the d/o H. C. Offutt....

Thomas married Lena Offutt, daughter of Col. Henry Clay Offut and Eliza Alvira Pollock, on 21 Dec 1898 in Jackson County, Missouri. (Lena Offutt was born in Jul 1870 in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri, died on 3 Aug 1937 in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri.). The cause of her death was skull fracture.

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