| On page 886 of the Directory of the District of Columbin, 1872 Edition
by Mrs. William H. Boyd, there is listed a Thomas A. Wannall employed as
a paper hanger and living at 1718 Riggs Road, NW, Washington, DC. This
may have been Thomas Asariah or the other Thomas A. listed in these pages.
What we do have regarding Thomas Asariah comes from his grandson's step-daughter,
Mary Bone. According to Ms. Bone, Thomas Asariah served as an infantryman
in the Civil War, where he volunteered to drive supply wagons to outposts.
We do not know whether his second wife, Addie, was the mother of any of
his children, but the birthdates of the first two,Walter and Kate, make
them too old to have been hers. We assume there was at least one previous
wife. We found a "Thomas A. Wannell" buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Washington,
DC, near the grave of Addie, but the dates of birth and interrment listed
there do not conform with the other information about Thomas Asariah, indicating
there were at least two boys born in the 1840's named Thomas A. Wannall
(or Wannell.)
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