When Mary Elizabeth THOMPSON was born on 24 April 1863, in Roanoke, Randolph, Missouri, United States, her father, William Lafayette Thompson, was 36 and her mother, Nancy Elizabeth Johnston, was 34. She married George Washington POWELL on 25 January 1879, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Salisbury, Chariton, Missouri, United States in 1930 and Salisbury, Salisbury Township, Chariton, Missouri Territory, United States in 1940. She died on 22 June 1952, in Randolph, Missouri, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Roanoke, Randolph, Missouri, United States.