"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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ELI THOMAS was born in Morgan County, Ind., on the farm on which he still
resides October 15, 1830, and is a son of PETER and SARAH THOMAS, both
natives of Orange County, N.C., the former born December 15, 1791, the
latter May 3, 1795. The grandfather of our subject, ABRAM THOMAS, was a
native of Wales, who emigrated to America during the last century and
settled in North Carolina, where he married, reared a family of nine
children and passed away. PETER THOMAS married, in 1816, MISS SARAH GRAVES,
soon after settled near Knoxville, Tenn.; in 1818, moved to Clarke County,
Ind., and thence in 1822 to Morgan County, where he died December 2, 1868,
and his wife December 25, 1878. They were parents of ten children--JOHN,
HENRY, DANIEL, SOLOMON, LUCINDA, LOUISA, ELI, GEORGE W., ELIZABETH and NANCY
A. Eli Thomas married, December 2, 1855, MISS RUTH, daughter of ABRAHAM and
NANCY A. HUFF, and a native of Monroe County, Ind., born May 14, 1831.
After marriage, Mr. Thomas settled on a small farm previously purchased, and
in 1869, having purchased the homestead, moved thereon. In 1864, he
enlisted in Company C, Thirty-third Indiana Volunteers, and served until the
struggle ended. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas have had six children--ALBERT W.,
NANCY E. (deceased), SARAH E., MARY E., FRANCIS M. (deceased), and an infant
(still-born).
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