Ellen Rebecca (Thompson) Knapp (1855 - 1931)

Born 13 Mar 1855 in Minnesota, United States

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Biography

Ellen was born in 1855. Ellen Thompson ... She passed away in 1931.

Notes From Newell Knapp: Ellen Rebecca Thompson was born in MN and raised in Wisconsin. Ellen came to the Dakota Territory in 1880 and filed on a T-shaped homestead in Section 18-135-56 with three 40s on the hill on the east line of the section and one 40 running down the valley of the Sheyenne. She spent the winter in Tower City, ND doing some sewing and in the spring of 1881 had a house build on her land down in the valley close to the house her Uncle Marcus Smith had built. She had come to the Territory with the Smiths in a covered wagon, pulled by oxen. In that house, she taught the first school in that part of the county.

Ellen married Chancy Ellery Knapp. They were listed as parents in the marriage records of their children:

• Ralph Smith Knapp to May Sophia Thompson, 01 Dec 1915 in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada^[1]
• Harley Revere Knapp to Lottie Victoria Thompson, 19 Mar 1918 in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937-1938," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JD8V-YGZ : 21 January 2016), Ellen R Thompson in household of Ralph Smith Knapp and May Sophia Thompson, 01 Dec 1915; citing Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Archives film number B11384, Vital Statistics Agency, Victoria; FHL microfilm 1,983,977.
2. ↑ "British Columbia Marriage Registrations, 1859-1932; 1937-1938," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JDZY-MFM : 21 January 2016), Ellen Thompson in household of Harley Revere Knapp and Lottie Victoria Thompson, 19 Mar 1918; citing Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, British Columbia Archives film number B11389, Vital Statistics Agency, Victoria; FHL microfilm 1,984,110.

Personal biographical notes from her son Newell Knapp - February 6, 1972.