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 1857 - 1931 (73 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. | Kate DUNNING was born on 21 Jun 1857 in near Mound City, MO; died on 16 May 1931 in Indianola, NE. Notes:
According to Uncle John Wolfe, there were 10 or 12 Thomas graves of children in the cemetery at Indianola, Nebraska. He also says, Grandmother praticed abortion. When dying she asked Mother, "Do you think I will go to heaven? " This would be confirmed by the 1900 census where Kate said that she had 11 births, three living.
Ina Mae Wolfe remembers that when she was very young and the family went to Indianola for Grandma Kate Dunning Thomas's funeral, Ina broke out in a terrible rash. Grandpa Bob Thomas took her around the yard asking finding out exactly what
plants she had touched while she was out in the yard. It turned out that she had been bitten by bedbugs instead. Because of the rash, Ina was sent over to stay with Mary, the former foster child of Bob and Kate Thomas and so missed the
funeral.
"My first view of Indianola was the 25th of April '78 (1878). It was a very nice looking clean, little place-- a store, drug store, court house, a small little school house, a hotel, and a small dwelling house or two. A buffalo cow laarriated
out east of the town some little ways was a novel one to us at least.
While the size of the town was not so ________ as we had grown up in Nebraska and had seen the small places grow along with us and sure Indianola had grown. New settlers coming in the fall and the coming of the railroad made things go fast but
we must remember the school, church and Sunday school was already well laid out and the people and children as well was glad to have those things that they were well attended by those in or living near here, I sometimes think better then than
now. The added thought is to think of so many of the glad hands extended to the new comers here who have gone to the last home. While gone they are not forgotten. Now looking at the churches and nice homes and trees you have to stop and think,
has all this been done since you first saw Indianola." Kate Dunning Thomas
Kate married Robert Hanson THOMAS on 15 Mar 1883. Robert (son of Abel THOMAS and Harriet W. BLAIR) 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. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 2. Jr. Robert H. THOMAS
 was born in Apr 1893 in Nebraska; was buried in Washington (state).
- 3. Lucy H. THOMAS was born in Feb 1890 in Nebraska; was buried in probably in Indianola.
- 4. Mary A. Duborks was born in Dec 1888 in Nebraska.
- 5. Alice Mae THOMAS was born on 6 Dec 1890 in Indianola, NE; died on 9 May 1975 in Billings, MT.
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Generation: 2
| 2. | Jr. Robert H. THOMAS (1.Kate1) was born in Apr 1893 in Nebraska; was buried in Washington (state). Notes:
According to Uncle John Wolfe, he was killed in a motorcycle accident probably about 1930. His son, Bobby Third he was called, died of disease as a young boy. There were two girls in the family. One visited the Wolfe's in McCook.
Family/Spouse: Marjorie Hope Shumaker. Marjorie was born in Oct 1894 in Nebraska. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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| 3. | Lucy H. THOMAS (1.Kate1) was born in Feb 1890 in Nebraska; was buried in probably in Indianola. Notes:
According to Uncle John Wolfe, Lucy died in the flu in the great epidemic of 1918, never married.
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| 4. | Mary A. Duborks (1.Kate1) was born in Dec 1888 in Nebraska. Notes:
Mary was informally adopted by Robert and Kate Thomas. In the 1900 census she is listed as a 12 year old boarder, last name of Dubarks, parents from Germany. There were other Dubarks (also Duborko) in Red Willow County about that time. Mary is listed as a daughter of Robert Hanson Thomas in his obituary (Mrs E.H. Korb of Indianola).
Robert and Kate's daughter Alice was sickly and about the same age as Mary. Grandma Dunning took Alice to live with her and Mary was raised by Robert and Kate Thomas.
Mary married Earl Holt Korb about 1904 in Nebraska. Earl was born on 28 Mar 1882. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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Generation: 3
Generation: 4
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