Thomas Smith Greathouse
- Born: 25 Jun 1820, , Warren County, Kentucky 1 2
- Marriage: Angemima Williams on 10 Dec 1854 in , Pendleton County, Kentucky
- Died: 23 Feb 1905, Garden City, Finney County, Kansas at age 84
- Buried: Greathouse Plot - Valley View Cemetery
 Notes:
From the biography Of Sameul B. Greathouse Sr. in
A History of Kentucky Baptists from 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 800 Biographical Sketches, by J. H. Spencer. Printed 1886. pp 114-115 (Warren Co.)
Mr. Greathouse left a respectable family, of whom his youngest son, Thomas Greathouse, became a Baptist preacher, of small gifts, and a teacher and composer of vocal music."
From The Childers ~ Childress Family Association/They Came to Kentucky/Decsendants of Henry Childers of Virginia and Kentucky/Part 4:
Ann Gemima Williams, called Angie, was born circa 1838 and married in 1854 to Reverend Thomas Greathouse, a minister and schoolteacher born 1822. Their children were Marietta born 1857, Sanders S. born 1859, Fleming E. born 1866 and Lill.
A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. [Revised ed.] Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1919, c1918. 5 v. (xlviii, 2530 p., [155] leaves of plates): ill., maps (some fold.), ports.; 27 cm. describes" Thomas S. Greathouse, who, as above noted, was a settler and homesteader in Finney County the year following his son. Thomas S. Greathouse was born in Warren County, Kentucky, in 1820. He was a man of splendid influence and accomplishment wherever he lived."... Among other lines of activities and responsibilities which he carried were those of preaching as a Missionary Baptist local minister. He knew his Bible and could quote long chapters of it from memory. Both he and his sons were republicans.
Details of his life include:
• He appeared on the 1830 Page No: 108, Sheets 214-215 Reel no: T19-42 Division: Seventh census in , Warren County, Kentucky
• Thomas Moved to: , in , Putnam County, Indiana. 1871 1
• Thomas Moved to: , in , Wayne County, Iowa. 1881 1 in the fall.
• Thomas Moved to: , in , Finney County, Kansas. Mar 1886 1 There were several families in the colony that located in Pleasant Valley Township that year, and Lee Greathouse's parents were leaders among those "who pitched their tents" and expressed their confidence in the far West.
• He appeared on the 1900 U. S. Federal census in Pleasant Valley Twp, Finney County, Kansas
Greathouse, Thomas, head, WM June 1820,age 79, marr. 45 yrs., b. Kentucky, father b. Maryland, mother b. Virginia, farmer
Angie, wife, WF March 1835,age, 65, marr. 45 yrs, mother of 3 children-3 living, b.Kentucky, father b. Kentucky, mother b. Kentucky
Fleming E., son, WM Dec. 1865, age 34, single, b. Kentucky, mother b. Kentucky, father b. Kentucky, farmer 2
Thomas married Angemima Williams, daughter of Owen Williams, on 10 Dec 1854 in , Pendleton County, Kentucky. (Angemima Williams was born on 20 Mar 1836 in , Pendleton County, Kentucky 2 and died on 29 Jun 1917 in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas 1.)
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