Thomas McVay
Thomas McVay was born in Virginia July 25, 1805. He is a son of John and Elizabeth McVay, who moved to Ohio when Thomas was yet a small boy and located in Pickaway County, and remained until 1824, when they came to Shelby County with their family, and settled on the north half of section 11, Franklin Township, where they passed the remainder of their days. In 1827 or 1828 Thomas McVay, the subject of this sketch, married Miss Jane Lemasters, daughter of Jacob and Hannah Lemasters, born in Pennsylvania October 4, 1807, and came to Shelby County, Ohio, with her parents in 1816 and settled in Salem Township. Mr. and Mrs. McVay settled on a part of his father’s land in section 11, where they made improvements and lived many years. Mrs. McVay died November 25,1865. Mr. McVay is still living at the advanced age of seventy-seven years. They reared a family of four children, viz., Elgiva, William, George W., and Sarah J. Elgiva died July 11, 1850. William and Sarah J. are now living in southern Kansas, and George W. is now living in Franklin Township.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883