Greenbrier County, West Virginia    Biography: Thomas H. PARE

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Transcribed and submitted by Valerie Crook, <vfcrook @earthlink.net>, 1998.
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THOMAS H. PARE - son of Thomas and Ann E. (WARREN) PARE, was born in 
Greenbrier County, April 14, 1859.  His parents were Virginians, his 
father born in Caroline County, and his mother in Rockbridge County, 
and their home was for many years in Greenbrier County.  Here his father
died, at Lewisburg, on the 4th of August, 1882. His mother was born August
26, 1818, and is still living in Greenbrier County.  At Lewisburg, January
6, 1880, Thomas H. PARE and Catharine L. BRIGHT were united in marriage and
the home they have established is brightened with the presence of one little
daughter, Maggie A., born April 11, 1882.  The parents of Mrs. PARE are Jesse
and Margaret (PENNELL) BRIGHT, and she was born in Greenbrier County, October
2, 1860.  Her mother died March5, 1880, and her father, born in Greenbrier 
County in 1821, is still living here.  Thomas H. PARE is engaged in the 
saddlery business at his card, elsewhere given in this work shows, and has
his postoffice address at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

Source:  Hardesty, Henry H.  Hardesty's Historical and Geographical
Encyclopedia.  New York: H.H. Hardesty and Company, 1884.
Rpt. in West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.  Ed. Jim Comstock.
Richwood: Comstock, 1974.