David J. Thomas
David J. Thomas, farmer, P. O. Lilly Chapel, is a son of Robert and Mary (Lewis) Thomas, natives of Wales, where they matured and married. In 1820, they, with one child, came to America and settled in Oneida County, N. Y., from where they moved to Delaware County, Ohio, in 1831. Fourteen years later they settled in Brown Township, Franklin County, where she died in 1866 and he in 1877. He was a land-owner and farmer by occupation. They were both members of the Baptist Church. Of their eleven children, nine are now living, of whom our subject is the sixth; was born near Utica, N. Y., May 29, 1828. Since three years of age he has been a resident of Ohio, save a short interval spent in Iowa and Illinois. Since 1870, he has resided in Jefferson Township, Madison County, where he owns a farm of ninety-nine acres, which is under a high state of cultivation and fairly improved. He received a common school education, and has devoted his entire life to farming. His political ideas are in favor of the Republican party. his marriage with Anna M. Hodgkins was celebrated March 19, 1863. She is a native of Indianapolis, Ind., where she was born in 1839. This union has been blest with a family of six children, living, viz.: Charlie L., Mary, Elizabeth, Katy, Annie and Robert J.
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]