The suggested proponent/s are Robert W. and Janie A.S. Chalmers (a farming couple who settled around this time), an unknown female train passenger,[2] or the daughter of an unspecified Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) director.

Operated by the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ (USCC) from 1940 until the 1970s, the site is now disused and overgrown.

[2] Various incidents linked to the Freedomites: 1930: Attempted arson of community hall[29] and damage by explosives to school.

Since Thrums can be used as a generic name for the area that stretches north to Glade, the boundary with Tarrys is unclear.

[2] Joe Irving (1911–2015), author, ironworker activist, graduated high school in his 90s, and centenarian, was the first baby born in Thrums.