Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Marlatt, Thomas 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Washington Township
p. 748 & 749

Thomas Marlatt, deceased, was a native of Berkeley County, Va., a son of 
Abraham and Annie Marlatt, natives of New Jersey. His father was a soldier in 
the war of the Revolution, and subsequently settled in Virginia, and after 
several years removed to Wayne County, Ind. Two of his twelve children---
Thomas and Mary (Marlatt) Connover---became residents of Wayne County. Thomas 
was married in Virginia, in 1815, to Elizabeth Ballard. He came to this county 
by teams, and located on section 33, Washington Township, paying $180 for the 
southeast quarter-section. Politically he was a strong anti-slavery man, and 
of pronounced temperance views, being one of the first to denounce the use of 
whisky in the harvest field. He was an active member of the United Brethren 
church. Mr. Marlatt died March 20, 1877, aged eighty-five years. His wife died 
March 26, 1875, aged seventy-six years. They had a family of twelve children---
Rebecca, Elizabeth, Evaline, James W., Thomas, Mary, Washington, Harrison, 
Joseph, Abram N.,Albert and Lydia E. Rebecca married Washington Wolf, of 
Mercer County, Ill. Elizabeth married Jeremiah Falls, of Mercer County, Ill., 
and died in 1849, leaving five children. Evaline married Solomon Wolf, of 
Mercer County, Ill. James W. resides in this township. Thomas is a minister of 
the United Brethren church in Mercer County, Ill. Washington is a minister of 
the Methodist Episcopal church in Reilly County, Kan. Joseph is deceased. 
Albert resides in this township. Lydia E. married Jacob S. Walker, of Henry 
County, Ind. Harrison resides in this township. Abram N. was born in this 
township in 1835. His education was completed at the Whitewater College, 
Centreville, and at Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind. He joined the 
Southeastern Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1868, of 
which he is still an active member, and has filled some of the most important 
appointments of the conference. He was married in the fall of 1868, to Anna M. 
Collins, of Jeffersonville, Ind. They have had nine children---Mary C., Sallie 
M., Walter T., Anna O., Ella N., and four infants deceased.

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