Thomas Singleton

Based on Censuses and Death Records and the Obituary of Thomas Singleton Thomas Singleton was born 1831, the son of James Singleton and Mary Redding. Thomas was their oldest child and the brother of Hannah Harriet Singleton, born 1835, and Mary Elizabeth Singleton, born 1838. James Singleton and his wife Mary both died about 1841 leaving their three children orphaned. On the 1850 Marshall, Indiana census, Thomas Singleton, age 19 and his sister Mary Elizabeth Singleton, age 12, lived with their Uncle Stephen Singleton and Aunt Jane Armstrong Singleton. It is not known who Hannah Harriet Singleton lived with. Also. on the 1850 census we see nephew Thomas Singleton attended school with a neighbor, Nancy J. 'Bernd' Barnes or Burns, age 18. In 1851, Nancy J. Barnes may have given birth out of wedlock to a daughter, Mary D. Barnes. Thomas and Nancy J. Barns married on May 10, 1851, Marshall, Indiana. Thomas Singleton and Nancy J. had two sons. James William Singleton was born Feb. 2, 1852. In 1853, an infant was born and died, the same year of Nancy J. Singleton's death about 1853. On the 1860 Marshall, Indiana census, two children of Thomas and Nancy J. Singleton, James William Singleton, age 8, and Mary D. Barnes, age 9, lived with Uncle Stephen Singleton and his wife Jane Armstrong Singleton. ************ From Find A Grave Thomas married his second wife, Lucinda Harris on 7 Sep 1854 in Marshall Co., Indiana. On 30 Aug 1856, the couple had welcomed son William Henry to the family. Son Stephen B. followed in September of 1858. It is likely that Thomas and Lucinda had another child sometime between 1859 and 1862. I found the family on the 1860 Census, living in Kirklin, Clinton, Indiana, where Thomas was working as a day laborer. Daughter Amelda Bell made her appearance on 15 Jan 1863. She was only two when Thomas joined the Union Army and left to fight in the Civil War. Thomas fought with the Union Army as part of Co. H of the 155th Regiment of the Indiana Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was organized at Indianapolis, Indiana and mustered in on April 18, 1865. It left Indiana for Washington D.C. on April 26, and from there it was sent to Alexandria, Virginia and assigned to the Provisional Brigade, of the 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps. They were then moved to Dover, Delaware on May 3, where companies were detached and proceeded to Centerville and Wilmington, Delaware, and Salisbury, Maryland. The regiment was reunited at Dover and was mustered out on August 4, 1865. The year after Thomas returned home from the war, he and Lucinda welcomed daughter Mary S. to the family. The whole family was together on the 1870 Census. Since the previous census, they had moved to Polk, Marshall, Indiana. Thomas, aged 48, was farming for a living. Their four children were with him and Lucinda, aged 40. William was 13, Stephen was 11, Amelda was 9, and Mary was 5. By the 1880 Census, Thomas, aged 48, and Lucinda, aged 40, had moved the family to Bourbon, Marshall County where Thomas was working a new farm. All four children were still at home with their parents. The two boys were helping out on the farm. Before the 1890 Census was taken, Thomas and Lucinda would watch their three eldest children walk down the aisle. First to marry was son William Henry. He married Arilla Ellis on 15 Aug 1880. Almeda married Cyrus William Jones on 5 Feb 1884, and seven months later, Stephen married Silvia Ann Anders on 24 Sep 1884, all three marriages taking place in Plymouth, Marshall County. Thomas must have been in failing heath as he filed for an invalid's pension on 16 Jul 1890. Daughter Mary was the last to fledge, marrying Ira W. Zumbaugh on 15 Nov 1894 in Plymouth. Thomas and Lucinda appeared on the 1900 Census, living in Center Township in Plymouth. Lucinda reported that she had had five children but that only 4 had survived to that census. With the couple was grandson Elzie Clayton Jones, aged 16. Lucinda died on 15 Sep 1907 at age 68. Thomas lasted just over two years without her, dying on 20 Oct 1909 at age 78.