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Descendants of John Hamlin

Generation No. 5

5. SARAH ROSEANNAH⁵ HAMLIN (NATHANIEL⁴, WILLIAM³, JOHN², JOHN¹) was born January 14, 1845 in Mahaska County, Iowa, and died April 6, 1934 in Cache, Oklahoma. She married BENJAMIN F. THOMAS October 17, 1864 in Exira, Audubon, Iowa, son of JACOB THOMAS and ELIZABETH LINN. He was born February 1841 in Washington County, Ohio, and died June 13, 1926 in Cache, Oklahoma.

Notes for SARAH ROSEANNAH HAMLIN:
Obituary

Mrs. Sarah Rose Thomas was born in Mahaska county, Iowa, on January 15, 1845, the third child and daughter of Nathaniel Hamlin and Magaret Poage Hamlin of Louisville, Kentucky (actually it was Lewis County), later of Illinois, and first settlers in Audubon County, Iowa, preceding by six months any other pioneers.

Mrs. Thomas had been in Cache 29 years, and at the time of her death was Cache's oldest resident. She and her husband, B. F. Thomas, had celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1924, October 17. She lived to the ripe age of 89 years, two months and 22 days.

Mrs. Thomas departed this life April 6 about 1a. m. after several weeks of confinement to her bed.

Friends of many years standing and a large number of her descendants filled the Christian Church to capacity.

The services conducted by Rev. Powell Smith of Lawton, were particularly appropriate to the character and life of this most worthy woman, The reading was from the 31st chapter of Proverbs, 10-31 verses inclusive choosing the 31st verse as his text

Mrs. Pearl Clark Good officiated at the piano, accompanied by a double quartet who rendered "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere", "It is Well With My Soul", with grace and feeling.

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Of the nine living children, though widely separated, eight were at the beside of their mother, as follows: Mrs. Lorena T. Witham, St. Paul, MI; Mrs. Minnesota Weir, Lamar Colo; Benjamin O. Thomas, Omaha, NE; Mrs. Alice Blunt, Cache, OK; Albert M. Thomas, Las Animas, Co; N. Carl Thomas, Cache, OK; Mrs. Dorothy Woodside, Aurora, MO; and a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Rose met Benjamin F. Thomas during the Civil War. He served in that War, but was honorably discharged because of a disability. Thomas came to Audubon County to recuperate and met "Rose" Hamlin. His brother Isaac lived in that county and was married to Mary Margaret Hamlin, who was "Roses" sister. They had 12 children.

More About SARAH ROSEANNAH HAMLIN:
Occupation: Teacher, very studious

Notes for BENJAMIN F. THOMAS:
B. F. Thomas was a surveyor who first surveyed the area from the Laramie Plains to Chadron.

Minnie Thomas Weir, wrote, "My father's object (after arriving in the panhandle) was to locate the settlers on their homesteads, and to do any other surveying, he being well qualified for that kind of work. He joined a tiny group of temporary shacks and many tents at Summit whose name changed to Bowen and later changed to Harrison in honor of Benjamin Harrison, our newly elected President."

Benjamin F. Thomas was one of the first elective officers, first county surveyor and the first county superintendent in Sioux County, NE. (Nebraska Historical Society.] He also served as the first Justice of the Peace.

B. F. THOMAS
SURVEYOR
AND
GENERAL LAND AGENT
OF
FIFTEEN YEARS EXPERIENCE

Is well acquainted with the U. S. land laws and rulings of this department. Keeps plats of Sioux County and eastern Wyoming, and has done work from Chadron to the Laramie plains, and from North Platte to the Dakota line. He furnishes good entertainment to visitors and emigrants in this the most wonderful corner of Nebraska, 8 miles north west of Harrison. Have 640 acres of the best winter pasture to be let.

(Ad run in the Harrison Sun.)

B. F. THOMAS PASSES AWAY

B. F. Thomas one of the early settlers of the community passed peacefully away on June 13, 1926 at his home in Cache, Okla. where he and his wife have lived nearly eighteen years, having lived to the ripe old age of 85 years, 4 months and 1 day.

He had been an invalid, bedfast, most of the time, since he had a stroke of paralysis on last Christmas Eve.

Funeral services were held at the Christian Church on Tuesday, June 15, where a large number of friends gathered with beautiful floral tributes to pay their last respects to one whose life has been a fine example of loving Christian faith.

A number of G. A. R. comrades and their wives with a beautiful display of flags reverently followed as his body was borne into the church.

Mr. Thomas leaves a wife and nine children to morn there loss. They are: Mrs. Lorena Witham, St. Paul, Minnesota; Mrs. Minnie Weir, Lamar, Colorado; Ben O. Thomas, Omaha, Nebraska; Mrs. Alice, Blunt, Cache, Oklahoma; Albert M. Thomas, Deora, Colorado; Arthur B. Thomas, McClave, Colorado; Nora Miller, San Antonio, Texas; Clare N. Thomas, Cache, Oklahoma; Dorothy Woodside, Aurora, Missouri. Mrs. Woodside, and family were present at the funeral and they with Mrs. Thomas accompanied the casket to the old home Greenfield, Missouri for the last fair well. He was laid to rest beside his mother and daughter, Mrs. Lily Williams, who preceded him many years ago.

Mrs. Thomas will remain with her daughter at Aurora until fall when she will return to her home at Cache, Oklahoma.

More About BENJAMIN F. THOMAS:
Burial: June 15, 1926, Green Field, Dade, Missouri
Education: Civil Engineer
Occupation: Surveyor and later in life a teacher.

Children of SARAH HAMLIN and BENJAMIN THOMAS are:

WINONA⁶ THOMAS, b. June 6, 1865, Exira, Audubon, Iowa; d. 1869, Died of scarlet fever..

Notes for WINONA THOMAS:
Born in Exira, Audubon, Iowa.

ii.

LORENA THOMAS, b. 1866; m. (1) CHARLES R. ATCHINSON; m. (2) HEZZELTINE WITHAM, 1893.

More About HEZZELTINE WITHAM:
Occupation: Lumberman

7.	iii.	MINNESOTA THOMAS, b. September 29, 1868, Audubon, Iowa.
8.	iv.	LILY THOMAS, b. July 9, 1870, Trenton, Grundy, Missouri; d. 1904.
	v.	BENJAMIN O. THOMAS, b. 1872; m. MARTHA GREEN.
	vi.	ALICE THOMAS, b. November 6, 1874, Trenton, Missouri; m. EDWARD BLUNT.

Notes for ALICE THOMAS:
Taught four and one half years in Audubon, Ia. and a year in Sioux County, Ne.

More About ALICE THOMAS:
Fact: Auburn hair
Occupation: Teacher

	vii.		ALBERT M. THOMAS, b. 1876, Trenton, Missouri; m. BERTHA WARREN.
	viii.		ARTHUR BENTON THOMAS, b. December 3, 1878, Trenton, Missouri.

Notes for ARTHUR BENTON THOMAS:
Born in Clinton, Henry County, Missouri.

	ix.		NORA THOMAS, b. 1880, Audubon, Iowa; m. WILMER MILLER.
	x.		CARL NATHANIEL THOMAS, b. February 17, 1882, Audubon, Iowa; m. GOLDENA CROSSWHITE.

Notes for CARL NATHANIEL THOMAS:
Enlisted in the first World War and served in France.

xi.

DOROTHY THOMAS, b. April 7, 1884, Audubon, Iowa; m. LYNN WOODSIDE.

More About DOROTHY THOMAS:
Fact: Auburn hair
Medical Information: Twin

More About LYNN WOODSIDE:
Occupation: Railroad Engineer

xii.

UNNAMED THOMAS, b. April 7, 1884, Audubon, Iowa; d. April 10, 1884, Audubon, Iowa.

More About UNNAMED THOMAS:
Medical Information: Twin (died three days after birth).

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