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I have been looking for years for information about Mary Thomas and who her parents were. Today, I found a book on-line that has some information.
The book is "Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of the City of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio" The book was published in 1897.
I found the following information here:
http://www.daytonhistorybooks.citymax.com/page/page/1760971.htm
CALEB THOMAS, [pages 1163-1164] one of the leading farmers and veterinary surgeons of Montgomery county, sprang from an old colonial family, which was of English origin. Isaac Thomas, his grandfather, came from South Carolina. He had two brothers, John and Abel, the latter of whom walked from South Carolina to Ohio with his family, having a pack horse to carry his effects. Isaac Thomas married Sarah Perkins, by whom he had the following children: John, William, Edward, Nehemiah, Ebenezer. Isaac, Elizabeth and Mary. Isaac Thomas removed with his family to Montgomery county in 1817, settling at Phillipsburg, his boys all securing land and settling near him. His daughters had married in South Carolina. Elizabeth married John Farmer, and Mary married Absalom Leeper, both families settling near Phillipsburg. At that time the country was a wilderness. Isaac Thomas entered part of the land on which Phillipsburg now stands, and cleared a farm of eighty acres, upon which he lived for many years and died an aged man. In religion he was a Quaker, and assisted to build the Quaker church at Phillipsburg, in which the Friends or Quakers worshiped for many years. He was a man of weight and influence and his family owned many acres of land in the vicinity in which he lived.
I will have to go back and look at some of the research that I have done in the past on the Thomas family in the Quaker records. We know that Absalom did not marry Mary until 1823, so perhaps she was married previously in SC. This may be why I ruled her out as the wife of Absalom when I did the research before.
I will try and do some additional research this weekend. However, this seems to be a nice break in the search for Mary's parents. With the book being written in 1897, the person who provided the biographical information would surely have know recent family history. Mary died in 1881 and Absalom in 1896, however not in Ohio but in Iowa.
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