I would like to contact any descendants of this family or anyone that has
information concerning them.
Thomas and Sarah Deem were the parents of ten children, whose names are in
the order of as follows: Mrs. Mary Ann Heaton, who was born on December 10,
1826, died on March 6, 1915; Mrs. Eliza A. Stewart, April 11, 1828, died
December, 1911; Mrs. Catherine Dailey, the widow of E.G. Dailey; Mrs.
Elizabeth Hoodlow, of Topeka Kansas in 1829; Mrs. Lenora Corey, November
22,1830; John Wesley; Lemuel, in 1836 ;Oliver in 1840; William Henry in
1844, died in the service of his country during the Civil War; and Thomas
Harvey, in 1847, died in 1864 and was also a soldier in the Civil War.
Thomas Sr built what is believed to have been the first brick house in
Decatur County.