In response to the question from a researcher about her Thomas family in Ohio/Indiana/midwest....I pulled out my file labelled Trip to Warren County, Ohio 2005. I had copied pages from something labelled: Warren Co. Museum Miami Valley Genealogies Friend's Families by Linday M. Brien I suspect but have not proved that this family is close kin to my Sarah Thomas who married Nehemiah McKinsey and lived in Newberry County, SC until her death. Sarah is believed to be buried in the cemetery that adjoined the Bush River MM. I have never found proof of this, but on a trip to SC several years ago, I found a stone that I believe to mark her grave and took a photo. The Annals of Newberry in part two by John A. Chapman says: Of the Thomas's who emigrated, several are not mentioned. They were Abel, Isaac, John, William, and Nehemiah. They came with considerable families and formed a settlement for a while called Thomastown. ..... Mr. Chapman is talking about the mass exodus of the Quaker families out of the south in the first decade of the 1800's to Ohio and Indiana....and on to other places in the midwest. I am going to give a VERY condensed version of what I copied last fall in Warren County on the family of Isaac and Mary Davy Thomas who moved from SC to the Miami Valley in this time period: This couple settled in Montgomery County in Randolph and Clay Townships are are buried in the Old Friend's Church yard known as South Fork. The church now used by a Menonite congregation and the grave yard almost obliterated. The marriage record of their son, Evan, in 1806, (West Branch MM) states that he is the son of Isaac Thomas, dec'd and Mary. The widow, Mary, with the younger children, Nehemiah, Evan, Sarah, and Phoebe, were accepted at Miami MM at Waynesville, Warren County, May 6, 1807. In the Bush River MM records (Hinshaw) and West Branch MM records (Brien) are found the children of Isaac and Mary Davy Thomas: Edward born 17 Feb 1761 m. Mary Wright and accepte at Miami MM from Bush river with children Isaac, Charity, Prudence, Edward, Elisha, Elijah, Vashti, Abigail, Rachel, Mary and Elihu Isaac b. 1 Feb 1763 in SC m. Sarah Perkins with children John, William, Edward, Elizabeth, Isaac Jr, Nehemiah John b 14 May 1766 in SC m. Anna Pemberton with children Elizabeth, Isaiah, Anna, John, George, William,Sarah Elijah, Abel b. 1 Nov 1768 in SC m. Ruth Pemberton with children William, Isaiah, Mary, Phoebe, Sarah, Ruth, Susanna, Abel, and Elizabeth Mary Elizabeth Evan b. Mar 18 1775 m. Sarah Cox with children Mary, Sarah, Evan, Elizabeth, John, Joanna, Nancy, and Jesse Nehemiah b. 17 Mar 1777 in SC m Elizabeth Pemberton with children Isaac, Esther, Mary, Daniel, James and Anna William m. Sarah Pemberton Prudence is twin to below Sarah Sarah b.Oct 29 1781 m Thomas Thornton Phoebe m David Cox with children David, Priscilla, John, Nehemiah, and Simpson While there is not record for Prudence in this paper, I have a vague memory that she married Phil Hawkins's Hawkins ancestor. I will look that up if anyone wants that information. I suspect that these Thomas's are descendents of the Thomas family that we find at Hopewell MM in the early 1700's...I have worked on these lines for a long time and am interested in any input that anyone has on these lines. Marsha in WV