In 1865 our subject was united in marriage with Miss Martha Fowles, whose parents were Reuben and Susan (Loughner) Fowles, prominent early settlers of Clarion county. Her father, who was a Republican, and a member of the German Reformed Church, died at the age of seventy-eight years; her mother is still living at the ripe old age of eighty-two. In their family were the following children: Erred, Amanda, Martha, Elizabeth, William, Reuben, Addison, Sarah, and Clarissa and Edwin, both deceased. Two of the sons, Erred and William, were soldiers during the Civil war, and the former died from wounds received in battle, but the latter is now living in Wood county, Ohio, engaged in the oil business.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Thomas have five children: Mrs. Anna McConnell George, a successful teacher, who is now a pupil in the Commercial College at Oil City, Penn.; Sarah; Minnie, and Martha. The parents and three of the children are faithful members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the father has served as trustee, steward, superintendent and assistant superintendent of the Sunday-school. His political support has always been given the men and measures of the Democratic party until the McKinley campaign, when he supported the Republican party. No man takes a deeper interest or greater pride in the moral and financial welfare of Clarion county than W. H. Thomas, who is numbered among its valued and honored citizens.
In November, 1897, when Pennsylvania dedicated her monuments on the battlefields, Mr. Thomas, in company with some of his old comrades, again visited the old battlefields of Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Stone River, and they were present at the dedication of the monument to the 78th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, which was placed upon the battlefield of Chickamauga.
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