Lizzie Childs was the third of five children born to James "Abel" and Margaret (Lawson) Childs. Lizzie's siblings were Mary, Fleeda, Rosco, and Fred. It appears that Lizzie was named Elizabeth for her mother's younger sister, Elizabeth (Lawson) Wilson. For several years during her childhood Lizzie lived at the Tama County (Iowa) Poor Farm and Insane Asylum managed by her father.
Lizzie was easy-going and a very pretty girl. She got an 8th grade education. She married Charles Franklin Kolp in Traer, Iowa on Valentine's Day in 1900. Two years earlier Charley's sister, Sadie Kolp, had married Lizzie's brother, Fred Childs. That makes the children of the two couples "double cousins."
Charley and Lizzie moved to Minnesota and then Texas before settling back in Paullina, Iowa. They had three children Wallis "Earl," Irene Margaret, and Carl Seymour. Earl died at the age of 11 after falling off a buggie his friends were riding.
At the age of 58 Lizzie was diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer and while at the hospital died of "a sudden attack of blood clot to the lung" according to her doctor.
Lizzie was easy-going and a very pretty girl. She got an 8th grade education. She married Charles Franklin Kolp in Traer, Iowa on Valentine's Day in 1900. Two years earlier Charley's sister, Sadie Kolp, had married Lizzie's brother, Fred Childs. That makes the children of the two couples "double cousins."
Charley and Lizzie moved to Minnesota and then Texas before settling back in Paullina, Iowa. They had three children Wallis "Earl," Irene Margaret, and Carl Seymour. Earl died at the age of 11 after falling off a buggie his friends were riding.
At the age of 58 Lizzie was diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer and while at the hospital died of "a sudden attack of blood clot to the lung" according to her doctor.
Lizzie Childs was the third of five children born to James "Abel" and Margaret (Lawson) Childs. Lizzie's siblings were Mary, Fleeda, Rosco, and Fred. It appears that Lizzie was named Elizabeth for her mother's younger sister, Elizabeth (Lawson) Wilson. For several years during her childhood Lizzie lived at the Tama County (Iowa) Poor Farm and Insane Asylum managed by her father.
Lizzie was easy-going and a very pretty girl. She got an 8th grade education. She married Charles Franklin Kolp in Traer, Iowa on Valentine's Day in 1900. Two years earlier Charley's sister, Sadie Kolp, had married Lizzie's brother, Fred Childs. That makes the children of the two couples "double cousins."
Charley and Lizzie moved to Minnesota and then Texas before settling back in Paullina, Iowa. They had three children Wallis "Earl," Irene Margaret, and Carl Seymour. Earl died at the age of 11 after falling off a buggie his friends were riding.
At the age of 58 Lizzie was diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer and while at the hospital died of "a sudden attack of blood clot to the lung" according to her doctor.
Lizzie was easy-going and a very pretty girl. She got an 8th grade education. She married Charles Franklin Kolp in Traer, Iowa on Valentine's Day in 1900. Two years earlier Charley's sister, Sadie Kolp, had married Lizzie's brother, Fred Childs. That makes the children of the two couples "double cousins."
Charley and Lizzie moved to Minnesota and then Texas before settling back in Paullina, Iowa. They had three children Wallis "Earl," Irene Margaret, and Carl Seymour. Earl died at the age of 11 after falling off a buggie his friends were riding.
At the age of 58 Lizzie was diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer and while at the hospital died of "a sudden attack of blood clot to the lung" according to her doctor.
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