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FROM:  Scioto County, Ohio Biographies-Valley Twp.

James Davis Thomas was born March 13 1816 in Ross County Ohio. His
father Benjamin Thomas ,was born in Chester Co, PA, his mother was a
native of Virginia. They emigrated to Ohio in 1804 and settled in Ross
Co, Ohio, near Frankfort. In 1820 they settled in Clay Township, Scoiot
Co., where the father died in 1832 and the mother burned to death in her
own house in 1842. James was married in 1840 to Nancy A. daughter of
THOMAS and ELIZABETH DEHART, they had a family of 5 children , only two
lived to maturity, WM M. died in 1882 and Mary E. wife of F.F. Miller.
Mrs Thomas (Nancy A.) died in 1881, Mr. Thomas (James) had been a member
of the Methodist Church over forty years.