The following article was found in the Wilkes-Barre (PA) Record, 17 Jan 1896, Page 2. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy of this obituary, please send me your mailing address. (Instead of submitting this to any specific Mailing List, I am submitting it to the General list in the hopes that it will be seen by a more diverse group.) "Mrs. Martha Thomas, widow of the late David Thomas, aged 84 years, died last evening at the residence of her son, John D. Thomas, Northampton street, of general debility. She with her husband and children came to this city in 1865 from Llanrystyd, Cardiganshire, Wales, and resided on the Heights when it was sparsely settled. In 1869 Mr. Thomas and his family purchased a farm at Spring Brook and lived on it until the husband died in 1887. Mrs. Thomas then returned to this city and Plymouth and lived alternately with her children. She was a consistent Christian, and was a member from childhood of the Welsh Presbyterian Church. She leaves one son, John D. Thomas, with whom she resided at the time of her death; Mrs. James H. Williams of Plymouth and Mrs. William Colvin of Olivers. Her son Richard Thomas (deceased) was a policeman a quarter of a century ago for several years. The remains will be taken to Spring Brook, Lackawanna County, for interment, it being the will of the deceased to be buried beside her husband. The hearse with the remains will leave on Saturday morning at 4 o'clock for Spring Brook and friends and relatives will take the 10:50 a.m. Wilkes-Barre & Eastern R.R. train. The funeral obsequies will be conducted at Spring Brook by Rev. John O. Jones, pastor of the Welsh Congregational Church." Nancy Cook Pasadena, MD, USA