History: THIRSTON, Catherine 1881 HAMILTON COUNTY OHIO
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Catharine Thurston
History of Hamilton County, OH; published in 1881 by Ford
pg 305
Submitted by Patti Graman
PMRHG@aol.com
                                       
        Catharine Thurston was the wife of Joshua Thurston, deceased, and
daughter of Henry Applegate,
an old settler of Green township, who died in the year 1877, about
eighty-six years of age. Her father,
Mr. Applegate, was born in New Jersey, July 1, 1791, came here in 1812,
and remained on Dry Ridge the
remainder of his days, dying March 12, 1877; was a bricklayer and
plasterer on Long Island, but,
longing for the west, traveled on foot and by stage coach to Pittsburgh,
where he purchased a skiff and
from there came on to Cincinnati, in which vicinity he lived for sixty
years. He was the father of 
twelve children, of which Catharine was the second. Her husband, Joshua
Thurston was a minute man
during the war; he died in St. Louis, in 1865, since which time Mrs.
Thurston has resided on the old
homestead place.






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