Thomas, Laura Amanda Clarissa

Birth Name Thomas, Laura Amanda Clarissa
Gramps ID I1011
Gender female
Age at Death 58 years, 3 months, 26 days

Events

Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Birth 1849-06-22 Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio, USA  
 
Census 1850 Dover Twp, Tuscarawas Cty, Ohio, USA  
1a
Census 1860 Union Twp, Wells Cty, Indiana, USA  
2a
Census 1870 Union Twp, Wells Cty, Indiana, USA  
3a
Census 1880 Berlin Twp, Bureau Cty, Illinois, USA  
4a
Census 1900 Princeton, Bureau Cty, Illinois, USA  
5a
Death 1907-10-18 Chicago, Cook Cty, Illinois, USA  
6a
Burial   Prairie Repose Cemetery, Dover, Bureau Cty, Illinois, USA  
 

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Thomas, John Lucas Flack [I0662]1819-04-291886-05-30
Mother North, Elizabeth Cora [I1007]1824-05-061908-02-21
    Brother     Thomas, Lee Richmond [I1009] 1847-10-26 1933-06-07
    Sister     Thomas, Anne Marie Elizabeth [I1010] 1849-06-22 1904-07-08
         Thomas, Laura Amanda Clarissa [I1011] 1849-06-22 1907-10-18
    Sister     Thomas, Georgia Anna [I1012] 1851-02-27 1923-01-23
    Sister     Thomas, Ida May [I1013] 1856-11-29 1941-07-30
    Brother     Thomas, John Horace Greeley [I1014] 1858-08-10 1901-12-05
    Sister     Thomas, Mary Josephine [I1015] 1862-05-21 1863-01-14
    Sister     Thomas, Emma Elnora [I1008] 1864-01-16 1941

Families

    Family of Weibel, Daniel and Thomas, Laura Amanda Clarissa [F2455]
Married Husband Weibel, Daniel [I0725] ( * 1826-04-19 + 1890-12-23 )
   
Event Date Place Description
Sources Notes
Marriage 1876-10-12 Allen Cty, Indiana, USA  
7a
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Weibel, Alfred Tennyson [I7627]1879-06-211929-07-11

Narrative

Note: Researching Laura Amanda Clarissa Thomas

In the notes I had from Jane Anne Thomas, Laura was not given a full name, but was listed as simply "Laura Thomas" or occasionally "Laura A.C. Thomas." Jane Anne had noted that Laura and her sister Anne Marie Elizabeth Thomas were twins, and had recorded their birthdate. She had also listed Laura as marrying Ohio-born John Allen Ketrow in Lancaster Twp, Wells Cty, Indiana, in 1881, a location not far from where Laura had been counted as living with her parents in the 1870 US Census (in Union Twp, Wells Cty). I had not found a listing for Laura in the 1880 US Census, and her marriage record reported her name as "Laura F. Thomas."

Carrying my initial research forward with the assumption that Jane Anne's notes were correct, I had found records for this Laura and her husband John and their descendancy (through a single daughter and granddaughter, and four great-grandchildren), including Laura's death in 1943 and burial in Fairview Cemetery, Bluffton, Wells Cty, Indiana. One discrepancy I could not reconcile was that the census records and Laura's burial listing on the FindaGrave.com website (with a photograph of her headstone) reported her as several years younger than she should have been, with a birthdate of 1856 instead of 1849. In the abssence of other information, I let this stand for some time.

During some research into the Weible branch of our family, I reviewed some records for Daniel Weibel (originaly spelled "Weible"), younger brother of my fourth-great-grandmother Anne (Weible) Thomas, and found that after the death of his first wife he had married a much younger woman named Laura A.C. Thomas in Allen Cty, Indiana. Burial listings for the family on the FindaGrave.com website linked this Laura back to father John Lucas Flack Thomas, and carried the correct birthdates. Reviewing the records I had found based on the information in Jane Anne's notes, it seems very likely that the Laura F. Thomas who married John Allen Ketrow was actually a different woman, possibly a daughter of Isaiah Thomas, and that Jane Anne's work was in error, as was my own.

In trying to validate the likelihood that this newly-discovered scenario was true, I considered the likelihood of these two branches of the family meeting up again to pair Daniel Weibel and Laura for marriage, and realized the possibility was quite a realistic one. Laura's paternal uncle, my fourth-great-grandfather Rev. David F. Thomas, lived on a farm in Union Twp, Wells Cty, Indiana, not far from the home of Laura's parents, and the family must certainly been aware of the death of Daniel Weibel's first wife (née Catherine Palmer) in late 1874 in Bureau Cty, Illinois from letters and other family communication and correspondence. The separation in family lines was sufficient - Laura and Daniel were related only by a pair of marriages, and shared no known blood ancestry - and as Daniel was widower of about fifty years of age, with at least a few school-age children to raise, both the Thomas and the Weible families must have considered it a pragmatic move to encourage the two to court.

After their marriage, Laura and Daniel appear to have had only one child - Alfred Tenyson Weibel - whose children and descendancy appear to be the only continuation of Daniel's line that I have been able to find thus far. Daniel died in late 1890, and several years later Laura remarried to the widower Leander S. Newport; Laura and Leander are counted in the 1900 US Census in Princeton, Bureau Cty, Illinois. Leander died in spring of 1905, and I suspect that Laura then went to live with her son Alfred and his wife and children in Chicago, Cook Cty, Illinois, as that was her reported place of death just over two years after Leander died.

Pedigree

  1. Thomas, John Lucas Flack [I0662]
    1. North, Elizabeth Cora [I1007]
      1. Thomas, Lee Richmond [I1009]
      2. Thomas, Anne Marie Elizabeth [I1010]
      3. Thomas, Laura Amanda Clarissa
        1. Weibel, Daniel [I0725]
          1. Weibel, Alfred Tennyson [I7627]
      4. Thomas, Georgia Anna [I1012]
      5. Thomas, Ida May [I1013]
      6. Thomas, John Horace Greeley [I1014]
      7. Thomas, Mary Josephine [I1015]
      8. Thomas, Emma Elnora [I1008]

Ancestors

Source References

  1. US Census of 1850 [S0046]
      • Date: 1850
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1850," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX3Z-S4J : accessed 9 June 2015), Elizabeth C Thomas in household of John L F Thomas, Dover, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States; citing family 1171, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

        Event Year: 1850
        Event Place: Dover, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States
        John L F Thomas M 32 Ohio
        Elizabeth C Thomas F 26 Pennsylvania
        Lee R Thomas M 2 Ohio
        Ann M Thomas F 1 Ohio
        Laura A C Thomas F 1 Ohio
        Sarah Weible F 12 Ohio

  2. US Census of 1860 [S0044]
      • Date: 1860
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4N4-3ZP : accessed 04 Aug 2014), John L F Thomas, Union Township, Wells, Indiana, United States; citing "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," Fold3.com; p. 57, household ID 383, NARA microfilm publication M653; FHL microfilm 803309.

        Event Year: 1860
        Event Place: Union Township, Wells, Indiana, United States
        John L F Thomas M 41 Ohio
        Elizabeth C Thomas F 35 Pennsylvania
        Lee Richmond Thomas M 12 Ohio
        Anne M E Thomas F 10 Ohio
        Lawlah A C Thomas F 10 Ohio
        Georgia Anne Thomas F 9 Ohio
        Ida May Thomas F 5 Ohio
        John H G Thomas M 1 Ohio

  3. US Census of 1870 [S0020]
      • Date: 1870
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX6L-GZ4 : accessed 9 June 2015), John L Thomas, Indiana, United States; citing p. 6, family 48, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,871.

        Event Year: 1870
        Event Place: Union, Wells, Indiana, USA
        John L Thomas M 51 Ohio
        Elisabeth Thomas F 47 Pennsylvania
        Lee R Thomas M 22 Ohio
        Laura A Thomas F 20 Ohio
        Anna M Thomas F 20 Ohio
        Georgianna Thomas F 19 Ohio
        Ida M Thomas F 13 Ohio
        John N Thomas M 10 Ohio
        Elnora E Thomas F 6 Indiana

  4. US Census of 1880 [S0045]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXNQ-QNC : 22 August 2017), Daniel Weibel, Berlin, Bureau, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district ED 2, sheet 31B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0177; FHL microfilm 1,254,177.

        Event Date 1880
        Event Place Berlin, Bureau, Illinois, United States
        Daniel Weibel Self M 55 Pennsylvania, United States
        Laura Weibel Wife F 29 Ohio, United States
        Sarah A Weibel Daughter F 17 Ohio, United States
        George A Weibel Son M 13 Illinois, United States
        Alfred T Weibel Son M 0 Illinois, United States

  5. US Census of 1900 [S0039]
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSSW-G6Q : accessed 1 December 2017), Laura A Newport in household of Le* Newport, Princeton Township (excl. Princeton city), Bureau, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 23, sheet 6B, family 123, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,239.

        Event Year 1900
        Event Place Princeton Township (excl. Princeton city), Bureau, Illinois, United States
        Leander Newport Head M 77 Kentucky
        Laura A Newport Wife F 51 Ohio

  6. Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994 [S0359]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q237-ZQZQ : 20 May 2016), Laura A C Newport, 18 Oct 1907; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference 26296, record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,239,765.

  7. Indiana, Marriages, 1811-2007 [S0302]
      • Confidence: High
      • Citation:

        "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXJT-WQ5 : 4 November 2017), Daniel Weibel and Laura A C Thomas, 12 Oct 1876; citing Allen, Indiana, United States, various county clerk offices, Indiana; FHL microfilm 2,111,520.