Maj. Cyrus Thomas and Elizabeth Jane Earnest

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Husband Maj. Cyrus Thomas ^{1 2}

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           Born: 9 Feb 1830 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Thomas (1799-1881) 1 3
         Mother: Catharine Weaver (1801-1886) 1 4

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       Marriage: 14 Mar 1854 5

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Wife Elizabeth Jane Earnest ⁵

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            AKA: Eliza Earnest,2 Eliza Ernest 6
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         Father: John Earnest (      -      ) 2
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Children

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1 F Anna K. Thomas ^{5 7}

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         Spouse: Thomas Evans (      -1879) 5 8

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2 F Margaret J. Thomas ^{5 6}

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           Born: 6 Mar 1860 - Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA
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         Spouse: William A. Hensel (1859-      ) 5 9 10
           Marr: 16 Aug 1883 6

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3 M Edward N. Thomas ⁵

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4 M Joseph S. Thomas ⁵

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5 M John A. Thomas ⁵

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General Notes: Husband - Maj. Cyrus Thomas

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He was educated in the rural schools of his neighborhood and Jackson school of Unity township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. At twenty years of age he learned the carpenter trade. He engaged for several years in carpentering and contracting. In the Civil war he enlisted October, 1862, as first lieutenant of company H., 168th Pa. Vols., and in the spring of 1865 he raised company F, of the 103d reg. and was commissioned as its captain. After the war he enlisted in the National Guard of Pennsyl-vania and was commissioned major of the tenth regiment.
In politics he was an unswerving and hard-working republican. He was elected assessor of his township when it was democratic by three hundred majority and was second in number of votes for the republican nomination of sheriff in 1883, 1886 and 1889. He was a member of the First Reformed church of Greensburg, Centennial Lodge, No. 100, A. O. U. W.; Select Knights of A. O. U. W., and a member of Post No. 4, Grand Army of the Republic.
He and his wife had seven children, five were still living in 1890.
He died of pneumonia.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Jane Earnest

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from Hempfield Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA

1 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 705.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 523.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 81, 103.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 81.

5 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 706.

6 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 110.

7 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 480.

8 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 480, 568.

9 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 109.

10 Fenwick Y. Hedley, Old and New Westmoreland, Vols. III & IV (New York, NY: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1918), Pg 372.