Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Thomas Strickland LOOMIS, 1902

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Thomas Strickland Loomis- son of John Lomas and Margaret Brneholtz

 
Daily Local
West Chester, Pennsylvania
February 25, 1902

The funeral of Thomas Lumis took place Wednesday, 19th. Interment at St. 
Matthew's Lutheran Church, the body having been brought up from Philadelphia 
Tuesday evening. He had lived in Birchrunville much of his life, prior to 1880, 
when he moved to Philadelphia, where he has resided ever since. He had been 
afflicted with paralysis for several years. His age was 82 years.

He was the father of Lewis Lumis, who lost his eyesight in the year 1878, by the 
premature discharge of a gun in the hands of Thomas Dewees, while the two were 
gunning for rabbits.
American Republican
April 5, 1853



By Rev. J. B. Knipe on the evening of the 24th, Mr. Strickland T. Lumas, to Miss 
Sarah Ann Hipple, both of West Vincent, Chester County.