Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Thomas, George B 1835 - 
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Author: History of Grundy Co 1882

George B. Thomas, farmer, P. O. Mazon, is a native of Oneida County, N. Y., 
born September 14, 1835, and was raised and educated in the State of New York. 
He was married in Oneida Co., N. Y., July 4, 1860, to Miss Sarah J. 
Richardson, who died in New York in 1861. Mr. Thomas enlisted in Company F, 
Twenty-sixth New York Volunteer Infantry, April 26, 1861, and served about 
four years, having re-enlisted in the Eleventh New York Cavalry. He 
participated in the battles of Cedar Mountain, Rappahannock Station, second 
battle of Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam and others; he was 
discharged in July, 1865, and then came to Illinois, and located in Mazon 
Township, Grundy County. Mr. Thomas was married, September 22, 1868, to Mrs. 
Sarah A. Preston, born September 23, 1838, widow of Asbury Preston, of Grundy 
County, by whom she had one daughter - Abbie, born in February, 1864. Mr. and 
Mrs. Thomas have one son - Benjamin N., born November 21, 1869. Subject has 
120 acres of improved land, in Section 8, of Mazon Township, valued at $50 per 
acre; his residence being located seven and one-half miles south of Morris. 
Benjamin N. Thomas, father of our subject, was born in 1809, and is living in 
Oneida County, N. Y. His mother, Lurancy R. (Burlingame) Thomas, was born 
November 19, 1811, and died in June, 1856. Mr. Thomas is a member of the 
Masonic fraternity.

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Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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