Information about John Thomas is very scanty. The family Bible provides his date of birth mentioned above, and the Census of 1880 shows that John was still living at home at nineteen. He married his cousin, Ellen L. Houck, who, in the Census of 1880, is shown living with her uncle, John E. Houck and his wife Martha as a "domestic servant." Her age is given as twenty. She and John appear to have married a year later.

The next surviving Census returns, those for l900 (June 9th), show John and his wife (now listed as "Helen L.") living in the Hampstead District, apparently in the Town of Hampstead, with seven children. The eldest child was eighteen years old, and the record states that eight children had been born to Ellen and that seven were then living.

The Census returns for 1910 show that he and his wife were living in the Hampstead District with three children. Ten children are now stated to have been born to Ellen, of whom seven were living. John's occupation is given as farmer.

Paul J. Walsh, Nicholas Joshua's son, believed that John worked on the railroad.

Vivian Sykes Stephan, John's granddaughter, believed that he lived part of his life on Dutrow Road, Carrollton, (where there were fires and reconstructions) and that he may also have lived in Baltimore and worked on streetcars.

Edith C. Walsh, Charles Stewart's daughter, believed he lived in Patapsco (a few miles south-east of Carrollton) for a time and that he finished life in Highlandtown, in East Baltimore, where Ellen lived with one of their daughters after his death.

The late Frederick J. Walsh, John's grandson, believed that his death was hastened by his being crushed between a cart and a wall. Vivian Stephan says she heard that John died of a heart attack on his fiftieth birthday.

[Memories of John Thomas Walsh, compiled by P.W. Walsh (Pol Breatnach) March 1989 and included in the 1989 Walsh Booklet]