Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....McConaha, Thomas November 8, 1813 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Centre Township
p. 352 & 353

Thomas McConaha, deceased, was born in Fauquier County, Va., Nov. 8, 1813. In 
1829 his parents, Samuel and Nancy McConaha, came to Indiana, and settled 
three miles south of Centreville, where he spent the days of his youth. He 
then drove team for Barnett & Whiteside, millers, of Camden, Ohio, at $7 per 
month, and at the end of six months put $40 on interest, and from that time to 
the date of his death there was not a day that he had not money on interest. 
At the age of twenty-nine he bought the homestead of his father, and from time 
to time added to it till he owned a section. He was a successful farmer and 
stock-raiser, making a specialty of the cattle industry. He was married in 
1841to Christina Kramer, a native of Butler County, Ohio, and a daughter of 
Geo. Kramer, Sr. They had a family of seven children---Barbara, Lewis, Taylor, 
Simon, George, Walter and Ada. His wife died in 1864, and he was married the 
second time in 1867, to Martha, daughter of Joshua Eliason, Sr. They had two 
children---Ella and Omer. Mr. McConaha died Sept. 15, 1877. Mrs. McConaha is 
living on the old homestead. Walter makes his home with her, and carries on 
the farming. In 1863, in company with G. A. Bertram and J. A. Beck, Jr., he 
opened on his farm the Granite Tile Works, where they are doing an extensive 
business in the manufacture of drain-tile.

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