| Thomas
Asariah Wannall
Index 1848-01
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Died: Father: Mother: |
1848
1915 |
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| Children: | Walter
Allen Wannall
Charles "Dude" Wannall Jessie Wannall Meredith |
Kate
Wannall
Nellie Wannall Woodburn Howard F. Wannall |
| On page 886 of the Directory of the District of Columbia, 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. What
information we had came 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 did 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.)
In late 2008 we heard from William (Bill) Howard Wannall III, who is an official at the U.S. Census Bureau and a direct descendent of Thomas. His research determined that Ms. Bone had the date of birth wrong. The Thomas of 1840 was actually the Thomas born in 1848, listed in the 1850 census as age 2 and living in Baltimore with his father Joseph (born in D.C.) and mother Jenette (born in Mass.) Also, there was no first wife: Addie was the mother of the five children. This finally connects Bill's branch with our main family tree, and we are eternally grateful to Bill for his contribution. On May 25, 2009 we learned from the 1880 U.S. Census that Thomas had another son, Howard, who was two years old at the time. We assume he passed away at an early age. In that same census Thomas was listed as a "laborer." We also verified the date of Thomas and Addie's wedding listed above and learned in addition that they were married at the Concordia Lutheran Evangelical Church in Washington, DC. Last updated: May 25, 2009 |
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