Henry THOMAS & Ms. __?__ & Sarah ARMSTRONG

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Henry THOMAS
Ms. __?__
Sarah ARMSTRONG

Husband: Henry THOMAS
Birth: 1806/7, OH
Occupation: merchant
Father: born in NY
Mother: born in MA

Marriage-1:

Wife-1: Ms. __?__

Could Henry's first wife have been a daughter of this couple?
Father: Nathan MAJORS / MAGERS (1793-1888)
Mother: Keziah BARCUS (1795- )
They had two daughters, one of whom was old enough to be Byron's mother: Mary Ann MAJORS, b. 1823, OH

Marriage-2: 21 Apr 1851, Marion Co., OH

Wife-2: Sarah ARMSTRONG
Birth: 1820/1, OH
Occupation: homemaker
Father: Joshua ARMSTRONG
Mother: Phoebe STERNS

Child with Wife-1:

1. Byron THOMAS, b. ca. 1842, OH

Children with Sarah ARMSTRONG:

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; USA, US, United States, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio

Sources:

1a. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service: IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).

Henry THOMAS
Spouse: Sarah ARMSTRONG
Marriage: 21 Apr 1851, Marion, Ohio
Source: Marriage Records, 1824-1964. Ohio. Probate Court (Marion County)

Nathan MAGERS / MAJORS
Spouse: Keziah BARCUS
Marriage: 09 Jul 1820, Knox, Ohio
Source: patron submissions

1b. Allen L. Potts. Marion County, Ohio, Probate Court Marriage Records, Vols. I-XII, 1824-1902 (online at Heritage Pursuit):

Thomas, Henry McHenry, Elizabeth 4/18/1844 JP Elisha Brown

Thomas, Henry Armstrong, Sarah 4/21/1851 Samuel F. Monroe

Might Henry have had a third wife, one he married between his first wife and Sarah Armstrong?

2. 1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): can't find Henry or Sarah (she's not with her parents). There is a Byron THOMAS (æ 7, b. OH) living in Mount Vernon, Knox Co., OH (p. 207A), with Nathan MAJERS/MAJORS (æ 55, b. MD) and his wife, Kesiah (æ 55, b. MD) — could they be Byron's maternal grandparents?

3. 1860 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #53-54 of 77): Marion P.O., Village of Marion, Marion Co., OH, Roll M653_1006, pp. 425A-425B, PN 125-126, 920/919, enumerated 17 Jul 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Henry Thomas 52 M Merchant 2500 3000 Ohio

Sarah " 39 F Do

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Byron Thomas 18 M Clerk Ohio

Mary A. Fisher 16 F Milliner Do

Jennie McGuire 16 F Do Do

Clarinda Kempt 21 F Do Do

4. 1870 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #69 of 89): Marion P.O., Village of Marion, Marion Co., OH, Roll M693_1240, p. 103B, PN 44, 343/349, enumerated 2 Jul 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Thomas Henry H 62 M W Post M Clerk Ohio

______ Sarah 48 F W Keeping House 1200 159 do

5. 1880 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #27 of 35): Marion (Wards 2 and 3), Marion Co., OH, Roll T9_1046, p. 214C, PN 27, SD 5, ED 100, 273/280, enumerated 16 Jun 1880, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1880 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1880: for an explanation of the column headings, please see
What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).

1 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 13 24 25 26

273 280 Thomas Henry W M 73 / Millinery & Notions OH NY MA

" Sarah W F 58 Wife / " " MA MA MA

Armstrong P W F 84 M-in-law / Milliner OH OH OH

Straub Mary W F 24 Boarder / " OH Ger Ger

Armstrong Nora W F 18 Niece / " OH PA PA

Selander M W F 22 Servant / Servant OH Ger PA

The enumerator got it backwards: Sarah was born in OH and Phoebe was born in MA.

6. 1890 Census: the 1890 Census Population Schedules were destroyed.

7. 1900 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): not found, at least not in Marion Co., OH.

8. Teri Johnson. Descendants of Peter Majors, Sr. (online at familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users).

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