The undersigned widow and children of William Groom, deceased late of Clay County, Mo. hereby waive our rights severally to administration on the estate of said deceased and recommend that John Chrisman, Public Administrator of said county be appointed as administrator of said deceased.
This 2nd day of September 1875.

signatures:
Savannah Groom  [widow]
James N. Groom  [son]
Lafayette Munkirs  [husband of Lydia]
Daniel S. Thorp  [husband of Margaret]
Antoine E. Hall  [husband of Rebecca]
John Y. Reynolds  [husband of Mary Catherine]

note: These are the wife of William Groom, his son and four sons-in-law, there are other children who did not sign, possibly:  Edward Alexander Groom, William Dudley Groom, Michael Farmer Groom and minors May Groom, Lela Groom & an unknown male who were children of Savannah and William.
also, Why did William & Martha Capps name their son Michael Farmer Groom and William subsequently marry Savannah Farmer??

Flyer for Estate Sale:

The personal property of said deceased, consisting of horses, cattle, 2 wagons, 1 corn-sheller, farming utensils, corn in the field and many things too tedious to mention. The sale will commence at 10 o'clock a. m., and be on the following terms.
A credit of four months will be given on all sums over $5, the purchaser giving his note with approved security before removal of the property. That sum and under CASH in hand.

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF R. E. THORPE

I, R. E. Thorpe, of Craig, Colorado, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be my last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills and codicils by me at any time made.

FIRST: I direct that all my lawful debts, including expenses of my last illness and funeral, be paid as soon as practicable after my death.

SECOND: I give, devise and bequeath all my property of whatsoever kind or description, both real and personal, to my loving wife, Nolia C. Thorpe.

THIRD: I appoint my wife, Nolia C. Thorpe, the executrix of this my last will and testament and request that she be permitted to qualify and serve without bond. And it is my will that, without order of court, she shall have full power and authority to sell, transfer, mortgage, or otherwise encumber or dispose of, any or all of the real or personal property of my estate.

FOURTH: In the event that my wife, Nolia C. Thorpe should predecease me, then and in that event, I give and bequeath all of my property of whatsoever kind or description, both real and personal, to Jennie T. Greene, Ruth T. Rutz, Mary T. Post and Mary Frances Turner, share and share alike. And it is my will that my daughter, Mary T. Post, be appointed as the executor of my will in the event that my wife, Nolia C. Thorpe, shall predecease me.

FIFTH: In the event that any of the legatees or devisees named in the last preceding paragraph predecease me, then it is my will that the share which the devisee or legatee would have received had she survived me, be given to her children, share and share alike.

Vernon J. Blevins	address: Craig, Colorado
Earl Blevins	address: Craig, Colorado

Sheet labeled Dad [by Mary Thorpe]:[copied exactly, except for brackets, mine. This is what they said when pressed to give a biography of themselves.]
Dad - May 19, 1876- Frid., 4 p.m. On a farm in Clinton Co., Mo. near Plattsburg, Mo. about 4 mi. southwest.
A yr later moved near Liberty, in Clay Co. - 4 mi west.
At 6 yrs of age attended school at the Blackgnat school and attended there 3 terms...about 6 months each.
Seven yrs old when his father died (of Consumption)
Uncle Will Groom (his mother's brother) farmed for them after father's death...
The spring that he would have been 10, his mother remarried---James Oldham.
At 10 yrs- brick school house - for practically 4 yrs... for when mother remarried they moved across the field, into another school dist.
Mr Oldham died in Feb. 1890...then family moved to the Providence neighborhood...6 miles north of Liberty (and a little west)
He had left mother 40 acres in the Prov. neighborhood...
At 17 yrs quit Prov school and attended the Western Missouri Business college for one term...Sept till May--diploma as a bookkeeper (in Liberty)
That summer he worked for Zary Huntington for $19.75 per mon., for 26 days(mon)...from March thru Aug (maybe)...Bd and room too.
Went to work that fall selling Farm Kits for a company---(anvil, vise, drill, hammer, etc)...little success, by Nov. he was broke..
In Nov. went to work for Uncle Mike Groom (his mothers brother) picking corn...started at daylight, until dark...he picked about 1,000 bushels (corn in the shuck)...1,000 bu. sold and enough put away to run his stock through the yr.
He got into a crap game...lost all his money,...he put up the dice for a dime bet and gradually won his dough back...and walked out and left his dice there...Uncle Mike went with him to sell the rest of the kits he had left, and he got his money back on them, but no profit...
He borrowed $50. from Aunt Kate (who was teaching school then at $40 per month)...bought some clothes, went back home and spent the winter...made posts for spring. The next yr he and Uncle Dannie farmed the home place...and his mother had bought 30 more acres...making 70 in all...they bought 8 cows for $20 apiece...they had feed for them...sold butter to the dining hall at William Jewell College Liberty @ 20c lb. His mother did all this--the boys did the milking...That winter they took care of the stock and occasionally had work at other farms, making posts, putting up ice,...anything for a days work...
The next spring, planted again and worked put some...as did Uncle Dannie...(age 19)...and yr he was 20, same thing...

Nolia Cooper Mayfield Thorpe - born Aug. 8, 1877, Clark Co., Ky between Lexington and Winchester...at Grandfather Lowe's
Uncle Will Mayfield (Wm. Madison) was 2 yrs old in Sept. after Mom was born.
She was 3 yrs old when her mother died (Fannie Lowe Mayfield) Died May 1st, 1881...They were living in Charlestown, Ind. and Papa went to hold a meeting and she went home...to Clark Co...took the 3 children...she took cold and died of quick consumption in 3 months in Ky.
Mary Lou (youngest child was but 10 days old when she took the trip back to Ky...Mary Lou died when she was one yr old..
Papa (John Baxter Mayfield---Christian Minister)..married Dec. 21st---Alice VanHook---and they took Will and Nolia to Paris, Ill...1881
They moved a lot---ministers family---Paris, Ill., Peoria, Lewistown, Charleston, Quincy,...then to Marshall, Mo....
Nolia at 13 went to live with her Aunt in Clay Co. Mo. Will went to Ky Uncle Jim Lowes...in Lexington...Fayette Co.)
With Aunt Jennie and Uncle Price Overstreet (Jennie was her mother's own sister)
Papas 2nd wife died Aug 25- 1895 ...Papa remarried the next May - 7th 1896.
Mary Gertrude Cheney Mayfield - July 14, 1883 Mrs Gertrude Carroll now - Woodland Park, Colo First married to Campbell Embree...
Cavello Giddens Mayfield - Dec. 17, 1884
Martha VanHook Mayfield [married to John] Walker - July 9, 1886
Third marriage to Margaret Shaw--- -John Wooley Mayfield...July 14, 1902
When 2nd wife died, Nolia went to keep house for Papa and her half sisters and brother...in 1895--when she was 18...and stayed until he remarried...3rd wife...
Nolia went to Ky for a few months visit...then back to Clay Co to Aunt Jennies...then to Clarksville to be married by Uncle Will Mayfield (her brother)....
She and Dad were engaged about 2 1/2 yrs (with a few interruptions before their marriage)...
After marriage they stayed on the farm until Sept. Moved to K.C. Mo., where Dad went to work on the street car (old grip-car)..they stayed there during the winter of 1898-99----and in the fall of '99 went to Sheffeld on the road to Independence, Mo.---to a small farm (about 8 or 10 acres)...bought chickens...In the spring of 1900 moved to Clay Co--Aunt Jennie Overstreet was ill...Dad helped Uncle Price and Mom took care of Aunt Jen. (In Sheffeld Dad worked for the C. C. Bolt & Nut works...at $1.25 per day...10 hr. day--6 day week.)...They were 2 yrs at Uncle Prices until about Feb. 1902...(he rented the place 2nd yr they were there.)
Providence neighborhood in Clay Co--where Dad worked on the Bogus place...Mom had a pretty garden...Jennie was born there--in the log house....the house was up on pillars...they in1903 Jan.-- moved to Grandmother Thorp's farm---Dads mother and Uncle Dannie moved to Elkton [in Colorado]---she was 59---so then Dad and Mom, in Jan 1904, moved to Elkton (or Cripple Creek Dist.)[I found them listed in the 1905 city directory for Elkton - miner living on Missouri Ave.]...and Grandmother and Dannie went back to the farm....They lived in Elkton 6 yrs [Ruth born here] and lived in 3 houses..and Dad worked in the gold mines....Elkton Mine (Windsor) was one of these...$3 a day at an 8 hr day...in Mar-1910- moved to LaSalle--farm where I was born---about a mile NW of LaSalle....because they rebuilt the irrig. ditch a lot of the farm was dry...Dad worked with 2 teams during this time on the R.R. grading...They moved to the McKinney place (black house) about 1911----and rented that place about 2 yrs...In Nov. 1911 Dad went to work for Conoco...had horses, 2 cows, chickens...sold horses and bought mules...
in 1913 moved back to O'neal place....then in 1914 moved into LaSalle to the apt. (faces south) ...about 1915 extra work with his team...besides the Conoco work....hauling cement for John Behrens, hauling, etc...Olson's Feed store...coal, etc...
Dad asked for a bigger wholesale station...sent to Craig...1918- Aug. 22...left Denver 10:30 Tues. a.m. and got to Craig 7:30pm Friday evening...Berthod, Rabbit Ears...
First night at Empire..2nd night near Frasier, at Ingrams...(close to or about Muddy pass...(water froze in the water bag that night...
First house--log house----6 months
Moved to Spencer place in Jan.
Moved to the Green house in Sept...1919
In May moved to Mrs. VanTassels little house...1920
April 1920 started the house---Finished in July...
Moved out (sold it) and moved to Snyder Apts....1949
Dec. 8, 1950...moved to Greeley...[also Colorado]

Herb repeated part of your phone conversation, in which you inquired of the usual health etc. but was most attracted by your mention of including Portland on your vacation itinerary which starts Oct 1st---Welcome and if I am an absent host come in anyhow. Rosa Lee, Susie, Gus, Janice and Sandra are still around--Roy & Marlis live at --Vancouver, WS.

About this condition biz, I have had 2 hemorages, 1 minor but last of major nature in last 5 weeks, both caused the usual delay in getting away from here and left me beat down to 120 lbs from where I expect to recover complete mobility and head for Denver via U. P. 106. The sawbones has repeatedly warned of not enough lung to stand flying altitudes---besides I have promised myself a ride on 106 for 15 years, I think it will be a pleasure before I die, as the feller says.

The main thing obviously now is to get away from what ever element of local alergy are causing said trouble to be stirred up--escape from A,M.A, influence if I have to get on Nick's boat and watch the bomb throwers.
Write again,
As Ever
BILL

Services for Helen T. McAlister, 52, of 4219 Kootenai, who died Monday morning in a Boise hospital, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in Whitney Methodist Church by the Rev. Raymond Thompson. Interment will follow at Syringa Gardens.
Mrs. McAlister was born June 18, 1916 in Kearney, MO. She attended school in Denver, Colo., and the college at Greeley, Colo. She taught school until she was married to Robert William McAlister on March 13, 1937, in Brush, Colo. The couple moved to Boise in 1957.
She was a member of the Whitney Methodist Church, Ada Chapter No. 8 Order of Eastern Star, Ladies of the Oriental Shrine and held several offices in that organization, including chairman of the sewing group for crippled children.
She is survived by her husband, four sons, Walter Dean, Boise, Daniel A., Pocatello, Darrel Gene, Anchorage, Alaska; and Rex Thorp McAlister, Onset, Mass.; two brothers, R. E. Thorp, and H. D. Thorp, both of Denver, Colo.; a sister, Mrs Frances Turner, Sterling, Colo.; and seven grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Ray Warren, James Parker, Curt Blackwell, Alfred Clay, Dan Jones and Scott Busselle.
The family suggests memorials be sent to the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children or the Whitney Methodist Church. Friends may call at Summers Chapel until 10 a.m. Friday.

Ted (Floyd Monroe) Thorp, 81, for 56 years husband of Jeanne Thorp, of Katy, TX, passed away peacefully at home at 3:15 p.m., the afternoon of Monday, September 25, 1995. He was born on March 14, 1914 in Kearney, Missouri. For 37 years, Ted worked with the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company as a field superintendent for internationally significant steel plate construction projects in most of the United States, in the Caribbean and in South America. Ted was an ardent fisherman and hunter in the Rocky Mountain West. He was an active member of the Loyal Order of the Moose in Billings, Montana. As a talented video and still camera photographer, he recorded and humorously narrated delightful family events. He enjoyed ballroom dancing with friends and with his wife Jeanne, who died on June 14, 1993.
Ted Thorp is survived by his three sons; Earl David Thorp of Monterey, California and Kaikoura, New Zealand; John Richard Thorp and wife Nancy of Wilmington, Delaware; and Wayne Phillip Thorpe and wife Liz of Kent and Yelm Washington. Grandchild, Theodore Edward Thorp and wife Shelley of Houston. Grandchild Richard Allen Thorp, USAF A1C of Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Great grandchild Megan Marie Thorp of Needville, Texas.
Family will be present to receive friends on Thursday, September 28, 1995 from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. in the Forest Park Westheimer Funeral Home, 12800 Westheimer @ Dairy Ashford. Funeral services will be held on Friday, September 29, 1995 at 1:30 p.m. in the chapel of the Memorial Mission Mausoleum in the Forest Park Westheimer Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of the givers choice.

HERBERT DAVID THORP
Herbert David Thorp of Fayetteville died Thursday, Aug. 18, 1994.
He was born at Kearney, MO, a son of James Daniel Thorp and Kary Tapp Thorp. The family moved to Denver, Colo., when he was a child, and he attended Denver public schools and the University of Wyoming. He was retired from the Gates Manufacturing Co. and the Union Pacific Railroad in Denver.
He and his wife moved to Fayetteville in 1974. He was a member of the Christian Church and attended Mount Comfort Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville.
He was the past master of the South Gate Masonic Lodge in Denver, the Fort Smith Scottish Rite, El Jebel Shrine of Denver and the Northwest Arkansas Shrine Club. He was a member of the Washington County Historical Society, the Gem and Mineral Club of Fayetteville.
Survivors are his wife, Grace Skirvin Thorp of the home; a daughter, J. Carolyn Thorp Nelson of Richardson, Texas; a son E. Ronald Thorp of Boulder, Colo.; a brother, Floyd M. Thorp of Katy, Texas; five grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 10:30 a. m. Saturday at Moore's Chapel with Dr. Allan J. Hunter officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Memorial Gardens.
Memorials may be made to the Northwest Arkansas Shrine Club's Crippled Children's Hospital Fund, c/o Harry Kimball, 38 Bedford Lane, Bella Vista 72714; or the Salvation Army, P.O. Box 696, Fayetteville 72702.

FRANCES T. TURNER
Memorial services for Frances T. Turner of 226 N. 9th Ave., will be conducted 10:30 a.m. Wednesday from First Christian Chruch-Disciples of Christ, the Rev. Robert E. Brown officiating.
Mrs. Turner, 68, died Sunday, March 22, 1987 at Logan County Hospital.
She was born June 15, 1918, in Liberty, MO, daughter of R.E. and Nolia Thorpe. She was raised and educated in Craig, CO. Following her April 19, 1941 marriage in Denver to Frank Harold Turner, the couple resided in Denver before moving to Craig in 1946, thence to Sterling in 1948. Mrs Turner worked in management at Sears and Roebuck from 1954 until 1968 when she worked in the office and was bookkeeper for Sterling Air Service when her husband went into partnership with Wayne Rose as operators of the service.
The couple retired in 1980. Mr. Turner died July 8, 1986.
Mrs. Turner was an active member of the First Christian Church-Disciples of Christ, served as president of the Church United, was a member of the Christian Women's Fellowship and served as president of the Central Rocky Mountain Region, serving on the Finance Council at both the regional and national levels.
She is survived by two sons, John Charles Stevens of Rocklin, Calif., and Bruce Turner of San Diego, Calif.; a daughter, Nancy Green of Lafayette; two brothers, Herbert Thorp of Arkansas and F.M. Thorp of Texas; two sisters, Mary Hart of Texas and Ruth Rutz of California; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Chaney-Walters Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Contributions to the First Christian Church Memorial Fund appreciated.

DEATHS

Frances T. Turner, member of First Christian Church, Sterling, died March 22, 1987. Mrs Turner was an active member of the First Christian Church, was past president of Logan County Church Women United, member of the Christian Women's Fellowship, served as president of the Department of Church Women of the Central Rocky Mountain Region and served on the Board of Basic Mission Finance at both regional and national levels.

ROBERT E. THORP

Services for Robert E. Thorp, 65, of 4120 Stuart St., were Saturday at Olinger Mortuary. Burial was in Crown Hill. Thorp, a salesman for Colorado Petroleum Products Co. for more than 40 years, died Wednesday at his home. He was born Nov. 4, 1908, in Kearney, MO., and came to Colorado when he was 12. He attended Denver schools. Thorp married Lucille Bellfield in 1928. She died in 1970. In 1972, he married Burmah Pittman. He was a member of Table Mountain Gun Club.
Thorp is survived by his widow; a son Jack Thorp, Denver; two brothers, Herbert D. Thorp, Denver, and Floyd M. Thorp of Chicago, a sister, Mrs Frances Turner, Sterling, Colo., and four grandchildren. (belonging to Burmah, NTG)