Meade County History: Revolutionary War patriot PVT Thomas Tobin, Sr "The History of Meade County, Kentucky 1824 - 1991" by Laura Young Brown and Marie Coleman. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net Information presented by: Prescilla Sadler Date: 11 FEB 04 *********************************************************************** TOBINS by Mrs. Edith (Shacklette) Haynes Land grants in Jefferson County, Kentucky, now Breckinridge November 17, 1783 is our Revolutionary War patriot Private Thomas Tobin, Sr., in the Pennsylvania Line and Indian scout in Kentucky and Ohio. He was born October 2, 1755 in Loudon County, Virginia and died May 24, 1844 in Fay- ette County, Pennsylvania where he married on August 18, 1783 Lydia HARDIN who was born December 29, 1768 and died in 1845. She was the daughter of Benjamin ALGERNON and Sarah Ellen HARDIN. Their chil- dren are Benjamin, Sarah, Lydia, Martin Thomas, Jr., who married Ann Mariah HAYDEN, Hester and Matilda. Thomas Tobin, Jr. and his wife Ann Mariah came to Wolf Creek, Meade County, Kentucky and settled and are buried there. Ann Mariah's parents were Daniel Hayden and Hannah SHACKLETTE and their children are Napoleon Bonaparte married first Mariah Shacklett WIMP and then Ra- chel SHACKLETT; Thomas Jefferson Tobin married Ann M. __; Mariah Louisa Tobin married Jesse Taylor SHACKLETT; Kate married David Willbee CHISM and George Robert was a Confederate soldier and prison- er of war in Camp Douglas, Illinois, he was killed during the war after he escaped from prison camp. Napoleon's wife Mariah was born April 12, 1845 in Meade County and died August 1886 in Wolf Creek, Kentucky her father being Blancit SHACK- LETT and Elizabeth WIMP. Napoleon was born May 25, 1834 and died August 19, 1913 and is buried in the Tobin Cemetery in Wolf Creek. Mariah Shacklett married first Branchert WIMP who was killed during the Civil War by his brother; their children were: Annie L. born 1864; Myrtle born 1871; William born January 2, 1873 and married Nannie; Robert born 1875 went to California; Thomas born 1877; Benjamin born 1879 died 1880; Edna Earl born May 1881 died July 10, 1904; George and John Henry. William Tobin and Nannie were married in 1904 in Meade County, Ky. Both were buried in Cap Anderson Cemetery August 11, 1935 and Feb. 6, 1951 respectively. Their children were Dalton born 1906; William N. born 1908; Robert Thomas born June 8, 1914 died October 20, 1934 and buried at Cap Anderson Cemetery; and lastly H. Wathen born July dying in Decem- ber 6, 1968. Napoleon married secondly Rachel Shacklett born January 6, 1853 and married in English, Indiana August 28, 1895. Her father was John Doc and Mahala Shacklette.