Family:Thomas Falls and Barbara Stauffer (1)

Thomas and Barbara lived first in East Pennsborough, Pennsylvania, in Cumberland County. Thomas was on the 1820 tax list, but he owned no property.

In 1830 they moved to Dover Canal in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he owned 14 acres of hilly land with poor soil, which he bought for $180. Canal Dover was once a port on the Ohio-Erie Canal. It is now Dover, Ohio.

In 1844 Thomas and Barbara came to Marion Township in Allen County, Indiana. Daniel may have come earlier. The two boys came by canal and the rest of the family by horse and wagon. They bought 80 acres in Marion Township.

Thomas loved to dance. He liked whiskey, danced jigs, and said they he was an Orangeman (Protestant) from Ireland.

There is a surviving letter written to Daniel Falls by Thomas Falls July 8, 18__. He said, "I would like to no how you ar geten along among the Rocke mountains. We are all well but me. I have been sick in March. I com from in about the last of May. I have Doctor a good bit of ur and I have applied to a watter docktor in Decatur. Jo han't got the ground allout yet. There is 3 acres and 20 rods of it he cant plough. It is to dry. His corn look well. He has plough but it want to be ploughed agin. He wont have wheat and to bad as the back field is all chert(?) and what little wheat thar was the Couger destroy it. What is in the mill is all that he has. John he payd him 1.50. He owd John 3 dollars 50 cents on the job but John hant don it yet but he will do it son. He wont tell me if he enny money in or not. I can much any of consarn he so headstrong that he will do as pleases and he may for me for I care nothin about the matter. We got a letter from Eleck in June. Tha ar all well but th come out this fall. They say the hav so many things that they cont part with. I cant do anything he want. I want him and so he do as he please for me. The nabors gon harvest next week. So no more present."

He was 73 years old when he died.

Barbara was 82 years old when she died.

They are both buried at the Antioch Cemetery in Hoagland, Indiana.