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- Myron Thompson
- Pioneer of the Thompson Creek area. Founder of Thompson Ranch. Father of Clara (Thompson) Sewell.
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- Myrtle L. (Sill) Seamens
- She was born to farmers John Henry and Mary Sill in Lincolnville, Kansas. According to US Census records, her father later became a dry goods merchant. She played childhood games such as Dare Base, Run Sheep Run, Pom Pom Pullaway, Duck on a Rock, and house. She went to the Emporia State University Teacher’s College (she does not say in her interview if she ever became a teacher). She worked as a seamstress for a dressmaker and was active in the fiber arts all her life. She married James Huber in Centralia in 1908, with whom she had a son. Huber passed away in 1910. She married Joseph W. Gift in 1919. Kanas State Census records show Gift and Myrtle Seamens living together in Monroe, Kansas with Myrtle’s son from her previous marriage, Robert, and with her mother Mary Sill. Joseph Gift died in 1926, when Myrtle was about 49 years old. She moved to Grand Valley, Colorado (now Parachute) in 1927, where she lived with her son Raymond in a hotel that her father John Henry Sill had purchased. She later ran the hotel. She married Darrell Lancelot Seamens on December 1, 1928 in Rifle, Colorado. The 1930 US Census shows them living in Grand Valley, and lists him as the hotel proprietor and her as the manager. They managed the hotel and a boarding house for several years. In Grand Valley, she was active in church work. She made and sold over 200 sun bonnets to help pay for a new roof on her church. She was an avid quilter, and still quilting into her hundreds. According to an article from the Daily Sentinel (November 20, 1983), she was for a while the oldest woman in Grand Junction. She is buried next to Darrell in Rifle’s Rose Hill Cemetery.