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1. Merle Marlin Jackson, #569, MM Jackson 1987. 1 TYPE Book
1 PERI Descendants of Peter Rucker
1 LOCA books.google.com.
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2. JP Munro-Fraser, #123, Alley, Bowen & Co., 1881, San Francisco. 1 TYPE Book
1 PERI History of Santa Clara County, California.
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3. JP Munro-Fraser, #123, Alley, Bowen & Co., 1881, San Francisco. 1 TYPE Book
1 PERI History of Santa Clara County, California.
Living with parents in Gilroy, California, in 1860.In 1870, living with his first wife, Melcena Haun, his children, and his father-in-law, Nathan Haun, on a farm close to his parentsâ„¢ farm in Gilroy.By 1880, he had married his second wife, Etta, and they were farming in Gilroy.
Å“The subject of this memoir, whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Lewis county, Missouri, December 8, 841, where he was educated, and resided untill 1853, in which year he corssed the plans with his father, Massey Thomas, bringing with them a drove of cattle, and arrived in California, at Sonora, n the Fall of that year. Remaining here but a short tme, they removed to Santa Clara county, October 16, 1853, and located in Gilroy township; the subject of this sketch completing his education in the county. In the year 1866, Mr. Thomas purchased a tract of ninety-seven acres of land, to the south of the city of Gilroy, a portion of it being within the corporate limits; while, in 1869, he was elected to the State Legislature on the Democratic ticket, when there were six candidates for the office, Mr. Thomas receiving two thousand one hundred and ninety-two votets. While in the Assembly, he served on the Committees of Ways and Means, Hospital, and location of State Normal School. He is now engaged in a warehousing, insurance and grain business in Gilroy. Mr. Thomas is one of the most whole-souled men we have met in our travels; fair and above-board in his dealings, just in his transactions, anad kindly in his disposition--a sensible, upright, honest man is the Hon. T. R. Thomas. Married, May 24, 1866, Melcena Haun, who died October 10, 1877, by whom he has: Susie, born May 10, 1867; Lizetta, born July 30, 1868; Frederick, born May 14, 1870; Otis, born October 25, 1874. Married, secondly, September 15, 1878, Ettie Young, a native of Maine, who died October 31, 1880. Had one child by this union: Ethel May, born July 24, 1879, and died July 8, 1880.Â
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