Sina Stickel Thomas

Sina Stickel Thomas was born in Putnam county, Illinois, March 11, 1865. Her parents, Hiram and Sarah Stickel, were both of English descent. The family moved to Princeton, Illinois, in 1880. Here she attended the public schools, and graduated at the township High School in 1886. She entered the School of Oratory, Northwestern University, in the fall of 1886; received her diploma from this department in the spring of 1888, and was engaged as teacher of Elocution in Eureka College the following fall.

She was married to L. R. Thomas, September 10, 1890, and resigned her work as teacher in the college in the fall of 1891, having served the institution three years.

She now resides at Milford, Illinois, where her husband is pastor of the Christian Church.
  

Source:  A History of Eureka College, St. Louis:  Christian Publishing Company, 1894.