Thomas married Ellen Greer on Oct. 12, 1887 in Ashe County. His second marriage was to Laura Payne on Aug. 3, 1914 in Gastonia.

MR CHURCH DIES SUDDENLY
Thomas J Church, 89, of 401 South Trenton street, died suddenly Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. at his home.
Mr. Church was a retired textile worker, who formerly was an overseer with the Manville-Jenckes Mill which was operated in West Gastonia.
Carothers Funeral Home has charge of arrangements which are incomplete.
-The Gastonia Gazette, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1958

FUNERAL SET FOR MR. CHURCH
Funeral for Thomas Jefferson Church, 89, who died Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. at his home, 401 South Trenton street, will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. at Carothers Funeral Chapel.
Dr. V. Ward Barr, pastor of First Baptist Church, will conduct.
Mr. Church was a retired textile overseer, who was connected with the former Manville-Jencks Mill here for about 20 years.
survivors include his three daughter, Mrs. Hugh D. Newsome of Columbus, Ga., Mrs. Frank W. Rucker of Gastonia, Mrs. Jewel C. Kanoy of Charlotte; two Sons, T. C. and Walter A. Church, both of Gastonia; two brothers, Hamilton and Wylie Church, both of Idlewild, N. C.; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
- The Gastonia Gazette, Wed., Jan. 29, 1958

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**JUST COULDN'T GET ALONG WITH WIFE, SO HE TOOK ANOTHER**
(Special in The News and Observer)
Lenoir, July 11.--Charged with the wilful [sic] abandonment of the woman, to whom he had taken the marital vow to love, honor and keep, and said charge being superinduced by a more serious one, that of a too intimate relation with another woman. Tom Church, a former native of Ashe county was arrested in Gastonia a few days ago, and on yesterday was brought to Lenoir, where he took lodging for the night with Jailer Will Bush. Church left Ashe county some four years ago with another man's wife and since that time has been sojourning at Salisbury, Gastonia and other sections of the State.

Only recently the whereabouts of this man was ascertained and he was at once arrested. A deputy sheriff from Ashe county went down to Gastonia Wednesday for him and he was brought here on yesterday, where he was lodged in the jail over night. The prisoner was carried to Jefferson this morning by Sheriff Triplett in an automobile.

Church says that he was not able to get along with his wife over in Ashe, and that he "just left her." He was living with the other woman in Gastonia as man and wife, and is said to have two to three children by her.
-News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), Sunday, July 12, 1914, page 16
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Thomas and his first wife, Ellen, were also the parents of Myrtle Church in addition to those listed below. Myrtle married Odis Monroe Griffin on May 2, 1928. Odis and Myrtle were the parents of Odis Leon Griffin