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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Massie Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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THOMAS M. WALES, retired farmer; P. O. Harveysburg. The earliest ancestor of the Wales family of whom we have any knowledge was George Wales, a native of Scotland, but who removed to Ireland in 1690. He had one brother who never married and was editor of a paper in Belfast, Ireland, and died there. Of the children of George Wales, his son Thomas, emigrated from Ireland to America in 1735, and of his children, George Wales was the grandfather of our subject, and was born in Pennsylvania; was married to Jane Irvin, a daughter of Wm. Irvin, who came from Ireland to America with Thomas Wales in 1735, and they settled together in Pennsylvania. Their descendants emigrated to North Carolina, with a brother of Jane Irvin, Samuel Irvin, who removed to Ohio in 1799, and settled six miles south of Dayton, Montgomery County, where he died, leaving four sons and one daughter; the eldest son became Judge Amos Irvin, all of whom have now passed away. The grandfather, Geo. Wales, with his family, emigrated from Pennsylvania to North Carolina in 1767. He had a brother John, who spelled his name Weailes, who moved to Alabama when young, of whom no information has ever been received. Of the children of Geo. Wales, Isaac, the father of our subject, was born in North Carolina in 1778, emigrated to Ohio in 1814, and settled in Highland County, and in 1815 settled on the west bank of Caesar’s Creek, right in the dense woods. In 1822, he erected a house on the hill west of his first cabin. Mr. Wales had one brother Samuel, who resided in North Carolina until 1846, when he removed to Indiana, where he died in 1847, They had several sisters who married and moved south, of whom but little has since been known. Mr. Isaac Wales married Ruth Welch, who was born in Virginia in 1784, a daughter of Samuel and Cloe Welch, who settled in North Carolina, thence emigrated to Ohio in 1814. Of their children the youngest son, Samuel G. Welch, still resides in Harveysburg. The grandfather Welch was of English and Scotch descent; he married a lady |
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whose maiden name was Hendricks, and whose parents came from Holland in the latter part of the 17th century, and settled in Virginia, their descendants mostly emigrating to the far south. Geo. Wales the grandfather of our subject, emigrated to Ohio in 1816, and lived with his son Isaac, till his death in 1824, age 87 years. Isaac Wales died in September 1824, about two months after his father’s death, aged 46 years. His wife survived him and died in 1856. They had five children – Mary; Jane F.; Nancy J.; Thomas M. and Caroline M.; the eldest and youngest deceased; Jane F. married Mr. Nicholson, has three daughters, and resides in Indianapolis, Ind.; Nancy J., married Henry T. Butterworth, and resides at Foster’s Crossing, this county. The subject of this sketch, the only son and fourth child of his father, was born in North Carolina Aug. 17, 1812, and was about two years of age when brought to the dense forests of Ohio, and here grew to manhood, fully inured to pioneer life; he served two years in the tanning business, one in Harveysburg, and one near Maineville. In 1833 he bought a part of his father’s farm where he first settled, and entered in good earnest upon agricultural pursuits, and here he continued a very successful farming business till 1868, when he retired from the farm and settled in Harveysburg, where he has since resided (except eight months in the winter of 1873-74 spent in Southern California). In March 1836, Mr. Wales was married to Sarah G. Stevenson, youngest daughter of Samuel and Rebecca Stevenson, natives of New Jersey. But this union was of short duration, when she was taken from him by death. In November, 1839, he married for his second wife, Harriet R. Fallis, who was born July 27, 1817, daughter of Richard and Phebe Fallis, natives of Virginia. By his first wife he had one son, Isaac, who died at six years old; and by his last wife he has one child, Richard F., born Dec. 1, 1841, who married Caroline M. Sanders, adopted daughter of Rachel M. Sanders; they have one adopted daughter, Harriet R. Wales, born in October, 1872. In October, 1874, Mr. Wales was elected to represent his county in the 61st General Assembly, and re-elected to the 62nd and 63d, serving in all five years to the general satisfaction of his constituents. Mr. Wales is a gentleman of very reserved and unpretentious habits, but of a high moral and intellectual cast of mind – firm and resolute in carrying out all his convictions of right and justice, which principle has fully characterized all his actions both in private and public life. This has given him a prestige in his community, and won for him the confidence of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. |
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