Thomas Nesbit Ralston and Elizabeth Jane Reed

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Husband Thomas Nesbit Ralston ^{1 2}

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           Born: 29 Jan 1844 or 1845 - Elderton, Plum Creek Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 2 3
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         Father: John Ralston (1807-1879) 2 4 5 6
         Mother: Jane Sloan (      -1874) 2 4 7

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       Marriage: 1870 2

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Wife Elizabeth Jane Reed ²

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            AKA: Eliza J. Read 3
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         Father: Augustus J. Reed (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Mary Anderson (      -      ) 2

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Children

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1 F Jane Ralston ²

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2 M Thomas N. Ralston ²

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         Spouse: Eva Grier Stewart (      -      ) 2

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3 M Eugene Sloan Ralston ²

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4 F Edith Ralston ²

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         Spouse: Rev. W. W. Willis (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Nesbit Ralston

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He was educated in the old Elderton Academy, and then entered the farming and stock raising business. His father was one of the original members of the Ralston Oil Company early operators along Oil Creek and in the Tidioute oil territory. Thomas Nesbit Ralston was identified with this work and also with the operation of a general store and had an interest in the banking house of John Ralston and Company. He was a member and for many years president of the Black Top Sheep Breeders Association of Washington County, Pennsylvania. Mr. Ralston was an elder of the United Presbyterian Church and was active in all its affairs. He was also prominent in the political activities of the Republican party, and served as school director over a long period of years.

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General Notes: Wife - Elizabeth Jane Reed

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from Indiana Co, PA

1 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 592, 622.

2 Lewis Clark Walkinshaw, A.M, Annals of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. IV (New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1939), Pg 549.

3 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 622.

4 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 428.

5 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 203, 591.

6 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 558.

7 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 592.