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Author: christymurray166
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Good news--my mom was able to find the link we were looking for! Below is information
from Nancy Sherrill of the Vigo County Library. She mentions a paper on the "Thomas
Family History;" I was actually able to find that on this website:
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:William_Thomas_(148)
I think I have found your link! The marriage to Hettie Taylor Beauchamp Trueblood was the
clue. The marriage took place in 1885 after the clerks had started asking couples
applying for a marriage license for the names of their parents! The Vigo County marriage
records are available on our web site at
http://www.vigo.lib.in.us/subjects/genealogy.
Here is the link to Guilford's marriage
http://www.vigo.lib.in.us/SPC/marriages/2810/200244.pdf.
It's a PDF and you will have to zoom up so you can read it. Guilford said his parents
were Abijah Thomas and Nancy Hansborough and that he was a resident of Travis County TX!
I took another look at Abijah's estate settlement. When Irwin Thomas posted his bond
as Abijah's administrator James D. Piety was his surety. Irwin had $1228.39 on hand,
which seems like a fairly large estate for the time. He disbursed $362.73, but it
doesn't say to whom. I checked Probate Order Book 7 to see if there was any more on
Abijah and instead found Irwin's estate! I suspect he died before Abijah's estate
was settled.
Our Thomas family file contains a photocopy of a small pamphlet titled "History of
the Thomas Family" and dated 1899. No author was named. That little history lists
Guilford as a son of Abijah and Irwin as a son of Joseph.
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