Ohio Family Group Sheet for the Thomas ORAHOOD, Jr. Family

***********************************************
Copyright Jeanne Crews.  All rights reserved.
http://www.fgs-project.com/copyright.html
***********************************************

Submitted by: Jeanne Crews
Email address: <jeanne_crews@yahoo.com>
 

Husband: Thomas ORAHOOD Jr.
Birthdate: about 1798
Birthplace:
Death date: between 1852/1860
Place of death: Iowa
Burial:
Father: Thomas Orchard
Mother: Sarah "Sally" Norman

Marriage date: 12 Oct 1820
Marriage place: Ross Co., Ohio

Wife: Catherine "Catie" BOWERS
Birthdate:
Birthplace:
Death date: 20 Sep 1831
Place of death: Indiana
Burial: Old Union Cemetery, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana
Father: Michael Bowers/Powers
Mother:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: John Wesley Orahood (see notes)
Sex: m
Birthdate: May 1827
Birthplace:
Death date: 22 Jul 1908
Place of death:
Burial: Brasher Cemetery, Cedar Co., Missouri
Marriage date: 9 Jan 1851   1 Mar 1855
Marriage place: both Schuyler Co., Illinois
Spouse's name: 1 Martha Ann Logan  2 Mary F. Bilderback

Child No. 2: Ethla Orahood (see notes)
Sex: f
Birthdate: 20 Sep 1828
Birthplace: Indiana
Death date: 24 Mar 1894
Place of death:
Burial: Plum Cemetery, Washington Twp., Logan Co., Ohio
Marriage date: 12 Sep 1846
Marriage place: Fayette Co., Ohio
Spouse's name: Ward Strope

Child No. 3: Andrew "Jackson" Orahood (see notes)
Sex: m
Birthdate: about 1833
Birthplace: Indiana
Death date: 10 Oct 1910
Place of death: Washington C.H., Fayette Co., Ohio
Burial: Compton Cemetery, Fayette Co., Ohio
Marriage date: 23 Jun 1860
Marriage place: Ross Co., Ohio
Spouse's name: Frances "Fanny" Skinner
 

Documentation:
Note
there is another family group sheet for Thomas
Orahood Jr. and his second wife Elizabeth Ann Fisk.
Thomas Orahood Jr. and wife Catie were traveling west through IN when
Catie became ill.  They stopped at the farm of Abraham and Elizabeth
Bryant Bowers, Catie's aunt and uncle.  Elizabeth cared for Catie until
she died on Sept 20, 1831.  Abraham Bowers, who owned land in Tippecanoe
Co., donated several acres for a cemetery and Catie was the first person
buried there, in the Old Union Cemetery, near Lafayette, IN.
According to an article in the "Journal and Courier", Lafayette, Indiana
dated Sun Jan 10, 1982, "Katie Arhood was a pioneer mother moving west
with her husband, Thomas, and three children." According to family story,
Thomas left his children with relatives in Ohio and moved to Iowa, where
he did remarry.
There is no explicit record of the names of those children. The ones I've
included in this family group sheet are guesses. Ethla and Jackson were
born in Indiana. Census records for Jackson don't all agree as to his
year of birth, but the 1870 and 1880 records indicate that he was born
about 1833, the year of Catie's death. It's possible that she died as a
result of giving birth to him. In 1850 and 1860 Jackson was living with
the family of Edward and Ethlin Young. Ethlin was Thomas Jr.'s sister.
(See the family group sheet for the Edward Young family.) So the evidence
in support of Andrew "Jackson" Orahood being a son of Thomas Jr. and
Catie is the strongest.
John Wesley Orahood doesn't fit into any other early Arahood/Orahood
family. Census records for him all indicate that he was born in New York
but later records for two of his children (Robert and Anna) indicate that
their father was born in Ohio. (No other Orahood families have ties to
New York.) I think it's possible that John Wesley didn't know where he
was born if his father left him. Maybe Robert and Anna learned later
where their father was really born. Thomas Jr. and Catie were most likely
in Ohio before they went to Indiana, so it's entirely possible that one
of their children, the oldest, was born there. John Wesley first appears
(so far as I've found) in an 1850 census in Schuyler Co., Illinois, where
he's living with the Eli Stevens family, who were from New York.
More evidence that John Wesley Orahood was the son of Thomas Jr. and
Catie might be found in the names of family members. John Wesley Orahood
named his first son William Thomas and records show that William Thomas
went by the name Thomas. Was he named after his grandfather? Also, Thomas
Jr. and his second wife named a son Thomas Jefferson, after a historic
person, so it would make sense that he named his first two sons after
historic men, John Wesley and Andrew Jackson. (For more information on
John Wesley Orahood, see his family group sheet.)
The descendants of Thomas Orahood Jr. and second wife Elizabeth Ann Fisk
use the spelling Arihood .