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Thomas and Jane were both born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, of parents who had moved to that area in the very early 1800s. In 1867, Thomas and Jane moved their family to Poweshiek County, Iowa, where many of their numerous descendants still reside. |
Thomas, Jr and Jane Irwin Read
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Thomas was born on July 24, 1827 and died October 31, 1908. Jane was born May 16, 1833 and died April 11, 1901. They are buried in the north center section of the cemetery at Kent Chapel, Poweshiek County Iowa. Kent is a few miles north of the town of Brooklyn. This ancestral history consists of several chapters with numerous footnotes and appendices. The first six chapters are based on the application of Sarah Weaver Reed Ewings for DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) membership. Sarah's writeup was deemed quite adequate and complete and has proven quite accurate when compared with more recent findings. Her original document contained no footnotes or addendices and had been formatted using a typewriter. The new formatted document contains footnotes and appendices added by the authors. Any comments by the authors in the text per se are clearly indicated or enclosed by curly { } brackets. Some of the remaining chapters consist of information from historical books, some published over a century ago and augmented by the compilers of this document. Other of the remaining chapters were written by the compilers of this document. |