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Thomas Read 1801 – 1863 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 11 Dec 1801

Birth Location: Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States

Death Date: 21 Jul 1863

Death Location: Chautauqua, New York, United States

Father: William Read

Mother: Nancy Keys

Spouse(s): Eliza Ferguson

Children(s): Edwin Read, Franklin Reed, Harriett Read, Henry Read, Hellen Read, Thomas Read, John Reed, William Read, Charles Read, Harvey Reed, Arby Read, James Read

The story of Thomas Read began in 1801 in Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States. In 1840, Thomas Read resided in Chautauqua, New York, United States. In 1850, Thomas Read resided in Poland, Chautauqua, New York. Thomas Read married Eliza Ann Ferguson, and had children including Edwin Theodore Read, Franklin Reed, Harriett Read, Henry Read, Hellen Mary Read, Thomas Read, John Butler Reed, William Theodore Read, Charles Meriam Read, Harvey Reed, Arby Dewitt Read, James Emmet Read. Thomas Read passed away in 1863 in Chautauqua, New York, United States.

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Biography

  • The story of Thomas Read began in 1801 in Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States.
  • In 1840, Thomas Read resided in Chautauqua, New York, United States.
  • In 1850, Thomas Read resided in Poland, Chautauqua, New York.
  • Thomas Read married Eliza Ann Ferguson, and had children including Edwin Theodore Read, Franklin Reed, Harriett Read, Henry Read, Hellen Mary Read, Thomas Read, John Butler Reed, William Theodore Read, Charles Meriam Read, Harvey Reed, Arby Dewitt Read, James Emmet Read.
  • Thomas Read passed away in 1863 in Chautauqua, New York, United States.

Immediate Family

Parents

William Read
1756 – 1834
Birth Location: Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, England
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Nancy Keys
1770 – 1823
Birth Location: –
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Spouses(s)

Eliza Ferguson
1813 – 1878
Birth Location: Otsego County, New York, United States of America
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Children(s)

Edwin Read
1832 – 1908
Birth Location: Chautauqua County New York, USA
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Franklin Reed
1834 – 1863
Birth Location: Chautauqua County New York, USA
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Harriett Read
1837 – 1893
Birth Location: Chautauqua County New York, USA
HR
Henry Read
1838 – 1862
Birth Location: Chautauqua County New York, USA
HR
Hellen Read
1838 – 1910
Birth Location: Chautauqua County New York, USA
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Thomas Read
1842 – 1920
Birth Location: Chautauqua County New York, USA
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John Reed
1848 – 1926
Birth Location: Jamestown Chautauqua County New York, USA
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William Read
1850 – 1901
Birth Location: Chautauqua County New York, USA
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Charles Read
1852 – 1922
Birth Location: Jamestown Chautauqua County New York, USA
CR
Harvey Reed
1854 –
Birth Location: –
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Arby Read
1854 – 1933
Birth Location: Jamestown Chautauqua County New York, USA
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James Read
1855 – 1870
Birth Location: Jamestown Chautauqua County New York, USA
JR

Thomas Read's Ancestors

Self
Thomas Read
1801 – 1863
Birth Place: Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States
Parents
William Read
1756 – 1834
Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, England
Nancy Keys
1770 – 1823
Grandparents
Thomas Read
1730 – 1767
Bradford Abbas, Dorset, England
Susanna Wycke
1736 –
North Crawley, Buckinghamshire, England
Nathaniel Keyes
1739 – 1813
Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Johanna Keech
1752 – 1847
Rhode Island, United States
Great-Grandparents
William Read
1709 – 1768
Laetitia Bedford
1710 –
George Keech*
1722 – 1788
Mary Dunkin
1724 – 1802
2nd-Great-Grandparents
Jonathan Bedford
1679 –
Letitia Webb
1683 –
Robert Duncan
1695 – 1741
Martha Tosh
1705 – 1795

Thomas Read's Descendants

1.
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Thomas Read (11 Dec 1801 – 21 Jul 1863) m. Eliza (Ann) Ferguson (10 Feb 1813 – 19 October 1878)
  1. 1. Edwin (Theodore) Read (25 Dec 1832 – 22 Nov 1908) m. Helen (Elizabeth) Ebersol (3 May 1842 – 1 Jan 1900)
    1. 1. Frank (E) Read (19 Oct 1876 – 18 Nov 1901) m. Bertha (Anna Koetz \) Kates (15 Jun 1878 – 07 May 1949)
      1. 1. Edwin (Thomas) Read (28 Jan 1898 – 2 Jan 1952) m. Ellen (Katherine (Nellie)) Dougherty (21 December 1898 – 30 August 1967)
        1. 1. Mary (Lorraine) Read (24 December 1920 – 26 May 1989) m. John (Hillian) Brown (30 December 1919 – )
        2. 2. Evelyn Reed (abt 1923 – abt 2007) m. Theodore (Charles) Guenther (abt 1921 – )
        3. 3. Joannie Reed (abt 1927 – ) m. Eugene Toth (abt 1926 – )
      2. 2. Helen (Elsie) Read (1901 – 09 Apr 1994)
      3. 3. Franklin (E) Read (1902 – May 1976)
  2. 2. Franklin Reed (1834 – 9 Aug 1863)
  3. 3. Harriett Read (1 Aug 1837 – 18 feb 1893)
  4. 4. Henry Read (Sept 1838 – 27 Jul 1862)
  5. 5. Hellen (Mary) Read (24 September 1838 – 3 May 1910) m. Henry Morse (Dec 1835 – 23 Feb 1901)
    1. 1. Ellen (Isadora) Morse (9 Jan 1860 – 23 Jul 1930) m. George (L) Moore (Abt 1851 – )
    2. 2. Clara (Eliza) Morse (Mar 1862 – 1940) m. John (Eugene) Perkins (6 Dec 1868 – 6 Apr 1961)
      1. 1. Harry (Leroy) Perkins (22 May 1893 – 1961) m. Ethel (L) Wakeman (16 Oct 1890 – Nov 1975)
        1. 1. Ruth (E) Perkins (abt 1913 – )
        2. 2. Nelda (Jean) Perkins (30 April 1913 – 24 April 1990) m. Daurice (Nelson) Goens (26 February 1913 – 27 November 1973)
        3. 3. Helen (L) Perkins (abt 1915 – )
        4. 4. Doris (Lenore) Robison (12 June 1916 – 25 August 2011)
        5. 5. Harry (Lee) Perkins (2 January 1928 – 18 December 2013) m. Iris (Dean) Hall (abt 1928 – 5 September 2019)
        6. 6. Randall (Gene) Perkins (3 June 1950 – 12 January 2008) m. Debra (Kay) Hopper
      2. 2. Floyd (H) Perkins (Jun 1896 – )
      3. 3. Eliza Perkins (May 1900 – )
      4. 4. Edna (Jean) Perkins (1 May 1900 – 28 December 1974) m. Sterling (V) Wilson (27 April 1899 – 28 August 1964)
        1. 1. Edna (Ruth) Wilson (10 June 1926 – 13 October 1996) m. Harry (Phillip) Owen (2 March 1925 – 6 April 2002) m. Arthur Blind (abt 1926 – )
        2. 2. Sterling (V) Wilson (abt 1931 – )
        3. 3. Clara (N) Wilson (abt 1933 – )
      5. 5. Cora Perkins (1904 – )
      6. 6. John (Edwin) Perkins (14 January 1907 – 3 November 1971) m. Garnet (J) Perkins (8 July 1911 – 14 February 2008)
        1. 1. Jan (Lane) Perkins (abt 1939 – )
        2. 2. Steven (Eugene) Perkins (28 December 1947 – 12 December 2015)
    3. 3. Edwin (Theodore) Morse (5 November 1871 – 7 June 1947) m. Mary (Adelia) Walker (1873 – 1926) m. Cora (B) Comey (1869 – 1940)
      1. 1. Helen (P) Morse (1894 – 1982)
      2. 2. Clara (Irene) Morse (14 Mar 1903 – 25 Nov 1990) m. Henry (John) Kemp (29 May 1901 – )
        1. 1. Marilyn (Erminie) Kemp (27 May 1931 – 6 Mar 2017) m. Raymond (M) Martin (1931 – )
    4. 4. DeVere (Ebersol) Morse (22 January 1878 – August 1941) m. Ida (Bell) Morse (22 March 1881 – 21 August 1930) m. Rhoda VanAllen (abt 1872 – )
      1. 1. Raymond (Edward) Morse (3 May 1900 – 8 May 1986)
      2. 2. Clifford (H) Morse (1902 – )
      3. 3. Donald (D) Morse (1905 – )
      4. 4. Hellen (I) Morse (6 Oct 1908 – 10 Mar 2009) m. Thomas (A.) Neidlinger (abt 1905 – )
        1. 1. Duwayne (Devere) Neidlinger (10 June 1935 – 10 Oct 2016) m. Anna (Margaret) Pohlman (12 May 1938 – 23 September 2023)
      5. 5. Dorothy (Jeanne) Morse (1 Apr 1913 – Oct 1994)
      6. 6. Glenden (D) Morse (31 Aug 1917 – 26 Nov 1990)
  6. 6. Thomas Read (26 Sept 1842 – 9 Nov 1920) m. Margaret Smith (January 1867 – 1952) m. Emma Spaulding (9 December 1851 – 9 January 1878)
    1. 1. Clara (A) Read (4 February 1886 – 30 May 1973)
    2. 2. Helen (E) Read (16 April 1901 – 6 June 1997)
    3. 3. Wade (Smith) Read (8 February 1908 – 16 October 1908)
    4. 4. William (E) Read (21 June 1872 – 15 November 1895)
    5. 5. Infant (Daughter) Read (1882 – 1882)
    6. 6. Infant (Daughter) Read (1882 – 20 April 1882)
    7. 7. Howard (Russell) Read (5 November 1899 – 25 June 1962)
  7. 7. John (Butler) Reed (26 Oct 1848 – 6 Jan 1926) m. Sarah Patterson (1 June 1856 – 10 Jan 1944)
    1. 1. John (Walter) Reed (April 1876 – 2 August 1879)
    2. 2. Clarence (Joseph) Reed (25 Jan 1880 – 18 January 1930) m. Margaret (Belle) Wright (Dec 1883 – 2 Mar 1953)
      1. 1. Edna (Irene) Reed (04 Mar 1904 – 10 Dec 1967) m. Frank (Emil) Peterson (22 Sep 1895 – 30 Dec 1968)
      2. 2. Margaret (Fern) Reed (17 Jan 1906 – 28 Nov 1961) m. Phillip (Van) Norman (27 Jun 1903 – 10 Apr 1973) m. Joseph (William) Rasor (1907 – 1955)
      3. 3. Wilbur (Theodore) Reed (11 Apr 1908 – 6 Feb 1993) m. Inez (Linda) Heil (6 Aug 1920 – 9 Apr 2013)
        1. 1. Linda (Kay) Reed (15 Nov 1937 – 15 Feb 2012) m. Wendell (Grant) Moser (abt 1935 – ) m. Hugh (Allen) Downing (7 Dec 1937 – 4 Mar 2004)
        2. 2. Sandra (Sue) Reed (3 Jul 1940 – 12 Oct 2015) m. Gene (T) Brown (1938 – 10 Feb 1993)
        3. 3. Charles (Joseph) Reed (27 Mar 1949 – 13 Dec 1993) m. Betty (Sue) Combs (6 Nov 1948 – )
      4. 4. Sarah (Pauline) Reed (14 Mar 1910 – 27 Dec 1974) m. Ted Barley (1905 – 4 Jan 1977)
        1. 1. Theodore (William) Barley (25 May 1927 – 1 September 2014) m. Mary (Elizabeth) Briggs (16 May 1929 – 18 Feb 2014)
        2. 2. Betty (Elnora) Barley (07 July 1928 – 19 Sept 2011) m. Dozier (Clayton) Mills (2 Dec 1923 – 24 Mar 2008) m. Joseph (Flava) Hall (12 Sep 1918 – 27 Jan 1961) m. Howard (William) Hankins (24 Feb 1917 – July 14, 1982)
        3. 3. James (Robert) Barley (1940 – 22 May 2025) m. Mary (Louise) Mullenix (29 Apr 1933 – )
        4. 4. Jacqueline (Ann) Barley (8 Sep 1941 – 14 Feb 2009) m. Paul (George) Marian (6 Apr 1925 – 25 Mar 2002)
    3. 3. Gertrude (Anna) Reed (29 September 1884 – 18 July 1954) m. John (Herman) Sterrenberg (27 Apr 1880 – 8 Aug 1950)
      1. 1. Evelyn (Sarah) Sterrenberg (28 April 1908 – 16 March 1987)
      2. 2. John (Butler) Sterrenberg (24 July 1912 – 5 January 1969)
      3. 3. Gertrude (A.) Becht (14 July 1919 – 20 Oct 2005)
    4. 4. Lloyd (E) Reed (25 Jan 1893 – 17 Dec 1917)
  8. 8. William (Theodore) Read (9 Feb 1850 – 25 Mar 1901)
  9. 9. Charles (Meriam) Read (24 Jun 1852 – 27 Sept 1922) m. Malvina (Emmoette) Marble (21 March 1862 – 23 November 1959)
    1. 1. Charles (Edwin) Read (11 April 1892 – 11 October 1963)
    2. 2. Orville (Alfred) Read (27 Dec 1895 – 29 Jul 1926) m. Clara (Emily) Keiper (25 December 1891 – 15 September 1955)
      1. 1. Lois (Miriam) Read (27 Dec 1923 – 26 Jul 2014) m. Calvin (Edward) Defenbau (6 Feb 1918 – 6 May 2009)
      2. 2. Alfred (James) Read (11 July 1925 – 18 March 1994) m. Eileen (Eloise) Orr (20 August 1927 – 30 September 2017)
        1. 1. Diane (Renee) Read (abt 1949 – ) m. Gary (Werner) Schnurrpusch (1947 – )
        2. 2. Cheryl Read (abt 1950 – )
        3. 3. David Read m. Jennifer
        4. 4. Laura Read
        5. 5. Linda Read
        6. 6. Charlotte (Ann) Read m. Steven Kensil
    3. 3. Elmo (Emerson) Read (25 May 1897 – 18 Nov 1973) m. Ricka (H.) Flessner (abt 1910 – 24 October 1998)
      1. 1. Betty (Irene) Read (2 Jan 1930 – 20 Jun 2004) m. Milan (W) Hitchens (abt 1926 – ) m. Bernard (R.) Kysar (27 May 1911 – 8 August 1999)
        1. 1. Samuel (Edward) Hitchens (26 Feb 1956 – )
        2. 2. Kathy Hitchens
        3. 3. Debra Laird
      2. 2. Phyllis (J) Read (abt 1935 – )
      3. 3. Charles (Duane) Read (4 Oct 1939 – 29 September 2001) m. Delores (Ann) Steers (21 July 1942 – 2 March 1995)
        1. 1. Kimberly Drummond
      4. 4. Rita (Annette) Read (abt 1942 – )
      5. 5. Duane
  10. 10. Harvey Reed (abt 1854 – )
  11. 11. Arby (Dewitt) Read (14 Apr 1854 – 15 Mar 1933)
  12. 12. James (Emmet) Read (13 Aug 1855 – 8 Nov 1870)

Thomas Read's Timeline

5 Records

1801
11 Dec 1801
Birth of Thomas Read in Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States
Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States
1840
1840
Age 39
Thomas Read resided here in Chautauqua, New York, United States
Chautauqua, New York, United States
1850
1850
Age 49
Thomas Read resided here in Poland, Chautauqua, New York
Poland, Chautauqua, New York
1855
1855
Age 54
Thomas Read resided here in Poland, Chautauqua, New York, USA
Poland, Chautauqua, New York, USA
1863
21 Jul 1863
Age 62
Death of Thomas Read in Chautauqua, New York, United States
Chautauqua, New York, United States

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 11 Dec 1801
    Event Place: Stillwater, Saratoga, New York, United States
    Record Source:
    [1] New York, State Census, 1855
    [2] 1850 United States Federal Census, Year: 1850; Census Place: Poland, Chautauqua, New York; Roll: M432_484; Page: 302B; Image: .
    [3] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
    [4] Web: Illinois, Find A Grave Index, 1809-2011

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Date: 1840
    Event Place: Chautauqua, New York, United States
    Record Source: 1840 United States Federal Census, Year: 1840; Census Place: Poland, Chautauqua, New York; Roll: ; Page: .

    Genealogy Event 3
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Date: 1850
    Event Place: Poland, Chautauqua, New York
    Record Source: 1850 United States Federal Census, Year: 1850; Census Place: Poland, Chautauqua, New York; Roll: M432_484; Page: 302B; Image: .

    Genealogy Event 4
    Event Type: Residence
    Event Date: 1855
    Event Place: Poland, Chautauqua, New York, USA
    Record Source: New York, State Census, 1855

    Genealogy Event 5
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 21 Jul 1863
    Event Place: Chautauqua, New York, United States
    Record Source:
    [1] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
    [2] Web: Illinois, Find A Grave Index, 1809-2011

    Genealogy Event 6
    Event Type: Burial
    Event Place: Grand Ridge, LaSalle County, Illinois, United States of America
    Record Source:
    [1] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
    [2] Web: Illinois, Find A Grave Index, 1809-2011
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