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1720 - 1785 (65 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Rebecca WALKER was born on 30 Apr 1720; died on 18 Jun 1785; was buried in Pottstown. Notes:
Witnesses to the marriage were: Daniel, Lydia, Mary, Deborah, Mary, Enoch, Abel, Isaac and Jarman Walker; Peter, Joseph, Jacob and Elizabeth Thomas and 58 others.
Rebecca married Jacob THOMAS on 19 Mar 1742 in Valley Meeting House. Jacob (son of Peter THOMAS and Elizabeth GOODWIN) was born on 12 Nov 1711; died on 11 Dec 1779; was buried in Friends Cemetery, Pottstown, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 2
9. | Daniel Walker THOMAS (1.Rebecca1) was born on 20 Nov 1760; died on 06 Sep 1834. Notes:
Daniel Walker Thomas removed from Chester Co., Pennsylvania to Winchester, Viriginia sometime between 1790 and 1799 becoming a member of Hopewell Meeting of Friends. He was a lawyer and was appointed Commissioner of Revenue for the town of
Winchester in 1810, giving bond to Governor John Tyler, who afterwards became President. His descendants became a quite extensive Southern family, living in Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky etc.,and evidently did not long continue their conection
with Friends. As far as known, they were the only branch of this family which went South. Others who did not remain in Pennsylvania went to Ohio, Indianna and some to Iowa.
Daniel married Sarah ELLIS on 21 Oct 1784 in Exeter Monthly Meeting. Sarah was born on 14 Aug 1766; died on 28 Feb 1825 in Winchester, Fairfax County , Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 3
25. | Jr. Isaac THOMAS (5.Isaac2, 1.Rebecca1) was born on 2 Apr 1784; died in 1833. Notes:
Quaker Meeting Records of Maryand:
Hannah Starr daughter of Jonathan Starr, late of Frederick County, Maryland and Phebe, his wife, both deceased married November 32, 1809 at Bush Creek Meeting House, Maryland, Isaac Thomas of Monallen, Adams County, PA son of Isaac and Eleanor
, deceased, of same place
Isaac married Hannah STARR on 23 Oct 1809 in Bush Creek Meeting House, MD. Hannah was born in 1790; died in 1867. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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29. | Abel Isaac THOMAS (5.Isaac2, 1.Rebecca1) was born in 1796 in Coventry, Chester County; died on 5 Jun 1857 in Clayton, Indianna. Notes:
They removed about 1828 to Baltimore, Maryland then in 1852 to Springboro Monthly Meeting, Warren County Ohio. Later they removed to Ravensville, Ohio. When William Henry Harrison was elected President they removed to North Bend, Ohio and
had charge of the Harrison farm and built the Harrison tomb which forms the base of the present tower monument overlooking the Ohio River at North Bend.
Abel married Rebecca Hayes on 17 Mar 1825 in Fallowfield Monthly Meeting. Rebecca was born on 16 Dec 1799; died on 13 Jul 1850; was buried in Waynesville, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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30. | Ellen THOMAS (5.Isaac2, 1.Rebecca1) was born on 1 Apr 1800; died on 6 Jun 1883; was buried in Pendleton Friends. Notes:
They moved from Clayton, Indianna to Pendleton, Indianna.
Family/Spouse: James Morrison. James was born on 6 Apr 1794; died on 6 Oct 1883; was buried in Pendleton Friends. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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42. | Abel THOMAS (7.Jacob2, 1.Rebecca1) was born on 4 May 1782; died on 14 Jan 1828. Notes:
unmarried, buried Exeter
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Generation: 4
66. | Alfred Thomas (24.Elizabeth3, 5.Isaac2, 1.Rebecca1) was born about 1811 in Adams County, PA; died on 5 Apr 1888 in at National Soldiers Home, Dayton, Ohio. Notes:
Private, 35th Ohio Volunteers, Civil War
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73. | Abel THOMAS (25.Isaac3, 5.Isaac2, 1.Rebecca1) was born on 8 Jun 1816 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; died on 12 May 1894; was buried in Hope Cemetery, Warren County, IL. Notes:
Mable Clair Thomas Wright wrote in a letter to her nephew Forrest, posted on 3-31-1947:
"Grandfather's (Abel Thomas) people were Quakers first. Grandfather wanted to play the violin but his father wouldn't let him, because they didn't believe in music. His father said that the Devil was in the violin. They didn't believe in having organs in their churches. They just sang hymns. Even when we went to G.C. to live, the United Presbyterianswho had a church over by Leopolds Hospital, sang without an organ or piano in 1910. "
She also wrote, "I must tell you Grandfahter's nickname was Tuck. He batched when he was going to college and ate mostly beans, and he used to write poetry for people and buy his candy. He was great for candy but had no money for it.
Abel married Harriet W. BLAIR on 28 May 1839 in Butler Co., Ohio. Harriet (daughter of II Robert BLAIR and Rachael WORTMEN) was born on 12 Sep 1815 in Trenton, Ohio; died on 12 May 1893; was buried in Hope Cemetery, Warren County, IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 129. Rachel B THOMAS was born in 1816; died in 1893.
- 130. Hannah W. THOMAS was born in 1841.
- 131. Adelia THOMAS was born in 1843; died in 1928.
- 132. Thomas Corwin THOMAS was born in 1845; died in 1928.
- 133. Isaac Henry THOMAS was born on 20 Nov 1857; died on 1 Jan 1926.
- 134. Eleanor THOMAS was born in 1848.
- 135. Robert Hanson THOMAS was born on 15 Apr 1851 in Galesburg, IL; died on 13 Jul 1931 in Indianola, NE; was buried on 15 Jul 1931 in Indianola, NE.
- 136. Harriet E. THOMAS was born in 1853; died in 1871.
- 137. Reverand Franklin Forrester Thomas was born on 4 Mar 1855 in Abingdon (Abbington), Knox, Illinois, USA; died on 4 Jul 1921 in Taos, Taos, New Mexico, USA; was buried in Jul 1921 in Kit Carson Cem., Taos, New Mexico, USA.
- 138. Jessie Josephine THOMAS was born on 15 Oct 1856; died on 1 Jun 1890.
- 139. William Edward THOMAS was born on 24 Dec 1859; died on 8 Aug 1871.
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