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 1769 - 1853 (83 years)
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| Name |
Oswald Thomas |
| Born |
10 Sep 1769 |
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
12 Aug 1853 |
Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
| Buried |
Eminence Cemetery, Eminence, Henry County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
| Notes |
- U.S. Census Shelby County, KY 1810: "Oswald Thomas."
U.S. Census Shelby County, KY 1820: "Oswell Thomas."
U.S. Census Shelby County, KY 1840: "Oswel Thomas."
U.S. Census District 1, Shelby County, KY 1850: "O. [Oswald] Thomas, age 80 b. Abt. 1770 Pennsylvania, farmer; wife M. [Mary] Thomas, age 75 b. Abt. 1775 Virginia." Also in the household, probably boarders: "R. Hagan 25 carpenter, J Dickerson 28 carpenter."
http://genealogytrails.com/ken/shelby/shelbyco_history_2.html
"History of Shelby County, Kentucky
Source: Written, Compiled & Edited by Geo. L. Willis, Sr. (1929)
Part III. Churches and Schools
CHAPTER I
Shelby County Baptists
Coincident with the very first settlement in Shelby County was the organization of religious bodies and providing for places of worship. The predominance of the Baptist Church as to numbers has been in about the same proportion in the County as in the State and Nation. There seems little doubt that they, the Baptists, were also the first denomination to organize and have a place of worship in the County.*
Back in the last part of the first half of the Eighteenth Century, William Taylor, a native of New Jersey, was growing into manhood and soon became to the "regular Baptists" of the southern settlements what Louis Craig** was to the north. He not only collected the settlers together in the region immediately around him and preached to them, but like Paul, visited the little churches, preached, wrote to them and encouraged them. . . .
Clear Creek
Two other churches of this denomination were organized in Shelby County, only a few years after the church in Shelbyville had been built. These were Clear Creek Church, in 1835, and Antioch. in 1819. Many left Fox Run Baptist Church and joined these congregations. Among them were Jeptha and Emma Bright, James H. and Nancy Drane, Oswald and Mary Thomas, and these, with John, Preston, Lindsay and Wilson Thomas, William Crawford, Pauline Crawford, (nee Thomas), and John Donaldson and wife, joined the Clear Creek Church. For a time the members met at the house of Harvey Stone, one of the progenitors of the Helm, Maddox and Bright families. Clear Creek Church was built on a lot donated by Lindsay Thomas, near the headwaters of Clear Creek. Two of the first preachers of Clear Creek were "Billy" Crawford and Robert Rice. On May 5, 1844, a church was organized one mile east of Eminence, in Henry County, called "Congregation of Christ at Macedonia." twenty-five members of Clear Creek joining that church. Among those who changed their membership, at that time, were the Brights, Dranes, Hopkins, McCarms, Donaldsons, Yates, Allisons, Fords, Joneses and Sadlers. Other members of Clear Creek changed their membership to Cropper or Shelbyville, and services were discontinued at Clear Creek."
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| Person ID |
I41609 |
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| Last Modified |
6 Sep 2014 |
| Father |
Morris Thomas, b. 23 Apr 1718, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , d. 13 Jan 1796, Hardy County, Virginia, U.S.A. (Age 77 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Cantrell, b. Abt. 1730, Pennsylvania , d. Abt. 1790, Hardy County, Virginia, U.S.A. (Age ~ 60 years) |
| Married |
Abt. 1750 |
Chester County, Pennsylvania |
| Family ID |
F18044140 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Mary Poague, b. 10 Mar 1775, Fort Russell, Fincastle County, Virginia , d. 31 May 1854, Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Age 79 years) |
| Married |
13 Apr 1793 |
Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
- LDS FamilySearch Kentucky County Marriages, 1797-1954: "Oswald Thomas & Mary Poague, m. 13 Apr 1793 Mercer County."
U.S. & International Marriages: "Oswald Thomas b. Abt. 1769, & Mary Poague, b. Abt. 1775, m. Abt. 1793."
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| Children |
| | 1. Mary Poague Thomas |
| | 2. Cassandra Thomas, b. 11 May 1794, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 25 Jul 1831, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Age 37 years) |
| + | 3. Morris Thomas, b. 19 Apr 1796, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, U.S.A. , d. 23 Feb 1871, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Age 74 years) |
| | 4. Anna Kennedy Thomas, b. 25 Jan 1798, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. Abt. 1831 (Age 32 years) |
| + | 5. Elizabeth Poague Thomas, b. 31 Oct 1799, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 23 Jul 1840, Virginia, U.S.A. (Age 40 years) |
| + | 6. Lindsey Thomas, b. 30 Oct 1801, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. Oct 1850 (Age 48 years) |
| | 7. Pauline Thomas, b. 25 Apr 1804, Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. Dec |
| + | 8. Wilson Thomas, b. 2 Mar 1806, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 20 Oct 1887, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Age 81 years) |
| + | 9. John Ambrose Thomas, b. 28 Nov 1807, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 23 Jan 1843 (Age 35 years) |
| | 10. Harriet Thomas, b. 10 Aug 1809, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 8 Aug 1839, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Age 29 years) |
| + | 11. Preston Thomas, b. 29 Nov 1811, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 21 Nov 1869, Doaks, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Age 57 years) |
| | 12. Edwin A. Thomas, b. 21 Oct 1814, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 11 Jul 1831, Kentucky, U.S.A. (Age 16 years) |
| | 13. Martha D. Thomas, b. 26 Aug 1816, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. , d. 24 Mar 1838 (Age 21 years) |
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| Last Modified |
6 Sep 2014 |
| Family ID |
F18044160 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 10 Sep 1769 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania |
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 | Married - 13 Apr 1793 - Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
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 | Died - 12 Aug 1853 - Shelbyville, Shelby County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
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 | Buried - - Eminence Cemetery, Eminence, Henry County, Kentucky, U.S.A. |
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