Military: Enrolled as Corporal, Company F, 4th Kentucky Cavalry Volunteer, 1861-1864.
Description: 5' 2-5", about 136 pounds, light complexion, brown eyes, light hair.
The Elizabethtown News, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1 Jun 1920, p. 1: Double Pensioner Died at St. John - Joseph W. Thomas, age seventy-nine years, died at five o'clock Friday afternoon at his home near St. John, of the infirmities incident to old age. He was in the Federal Army, and later in the railroad service. For many years before his death he drew a pension from both the Government and the railroad company. One sister, Mrs. Luke Williams, survives him. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at St. Johns Catholic church by the Rev. J. M. Abell, and burial followed in the church cemetery.
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions. Addressed to Joseph W. Thomas, 559412, St. Johns, Ky. Answer the questions:
1. Date and place of birth: Sept. 9, 1840 St. John, Ky [other documentation in the file all state birthday as 9 Sep 1834]
2. Your post office at enlistment: Stephensburg, Ky
3. Your wife's full name and her maiden name: Jane Elizabeth Thomas – Dead
4. When, where married: Elizabethtown, Ky Method Minister
5. Is there an official or church record: No
6. Previously married? No
7. Wife previously married? No
8. Are you now living with your wife? Dead
9. Names and dates of birth of all your children, living or dead: Elenora Thomas (Dead); George Ann (Dead); Martina Braun living
Date: Apr 7, 1915
Signature – Joseph W. Thomas {his mark}.
Description: 5' 2-5", about 136 pounds, light complexion, brown eyes, light hair.
The Elizabethtown News, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1 Jun 1920, p. 1: Double Pensioner Died at St. John - Joseph W. Thomas, age seventy-nine years, died at five o'clock Friday afternoon at his home near St. John, of the infirmities incident to old age. He was in the Federal Army, and later in the railroad service. For many years before his death he drew a pension from both the Government and the railroad company. One sister, Mrs. Luke Williams, survives him. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at St. Johns Catholic church by the Rev. J. M. Abell, and burial followed in the church cemetery.
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions. Addressed to Joseph W. Thomas, 559412, St. Johns, Ky. Answer the questions:
1. Date and place of birth: Sept. 9, 1840 St. John, Ky [other documentation in the file all state birthday as 9 Sep 1834]
2. Your post office at enlistment: Stephensburg, Ky
3. Your wife's full name and her maiden name: Jane Elizabeth Thomas – Dead
4. When, where married: Elizabethtown, Ky Method Minister
5. Is there an official or church record: No
6. Previously married? No
7. Wife previously married? No
8. Are you now living with your wife? Dead
9. Names and dates of birth of all your children, living or dead: Elenora Thomas (Dead); George Ann (Dead); Martina Braun living
Date: Apr 7, 1915
Signature – Joseph W. Thomas {his mark}.
Military: Enrolled as Corporal, Company F, 4th Kentucky Cavalry Volunteer, 1861-1864.
Description: 5' 2-5", about 136 pounds, light complexion, brown eyes, light hair.
The Elizabethtown News, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1 Jun 1920, p. 1: Double Pensioner Died at St. John - Joseph W. Thomas, age seventy-nine years, died at five o'clock Friday afternoon at his home near St. John, of the infirmities incident to old age. He was in the Federal Army, and later in the railroad service. For many years before his death he drew a pension from both the Government and the railroad company. One sister, Mrs. Luke Williams, survives him. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at St. Johns Catholic church by the Rev. J. M. Abell, and burial followed in the church cemetery.
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions. Addressed to Joseph W. Thomas, 559412, St. Johns, Ky. Answer the questions:
1. Date and place of birth: Sept. 9, 1840 St. John, Ky [other documentation in the file all state birthday as 9 Sep 1834]
2. Your post office at enlistment: Stephensburg, Ky
3. Your wife's full name and her maiden name: Jane Elizabeth Thomas – Dead
4. When, where married: Elizabethtown, Ky Method Minister
5. Is there an official or church record: No
6. Previously married? No
7. Wife previously married? No
8. Are you now living with your wife? Dead
9. Names and dates of birth of all your children, living or dead: Elenora Thomas (Dead); George Ann (Dead); Martina Braun living
Date: Apr 7, 1915
Signature – Joseph W. Thomas {his mark}.
Description: 5' 2-5", about 136 pounds, light complexion, brown eyes, light hair.
The Elizabethtown News, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1 Jun 1920, p. 1: Double Pensioner Died at St. John - Joseph W. Thomas, age seventy-nine years, died at five o'clock Friday afternoon at his home near St. John, of the infirmities incident to old age. He was in the Federal Army, and later in the railroad service. For many years before his death he drew a pension from both the Government and the railroad company. One sister, Mrs. Luke Williams, survives him. Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at St. Johns Catholic church by the Rev. J. M. Abell, and burial followed in the church cemetery.
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions. Addressed to Joseph W. Thomas, 559412, St. Johns, Ky. Answer the questions:
1. Date and place of birth: Sept. 9, 1840 St. John, Ky [other documentation in the file all state birthday as 9 Sep 1834]
2. Your post office at enlistment: Stephensburg, Ky
3. Your wife's full name and her maiden name: Jane Elizabeth Thomas – Dead
4. When, where married: Elizabethtown, Ky Method Minister
5. Is there an official or church record: No
6. Previously married? No
7. Wife previously married? No
8. Are you now living with your wife? Dead
9. Names and dates of birth of all your children, living or dead: Elenora Thomas (Dead); George Ann (Dead); Martina Braun living
Date: Apr 7, 1915
Signature – Joseph W. Thomas {his mark}.
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