Thomas is found in the 1850 Illinois
census, Knox county, Lynn township. He
is age 55, a farmer with $500 in real
estate. The Portrait and Biographical
Album of Knox County, has a paragraph
about them under the husband of their
daughter Sarah McNaught Smith. Her
parents were married near Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania and had four children
there, they then moved to Richland
county, Ohio and had six more children.
Sarah was the next to youngest. Five of
those children were living in 1886, one
other was still in Illinois. Sarah was
six when the family moved to Lynn
township where Thomas died. He was a
carpenter and cabinetmaker by trade.