Ohio Family Group Sheet for the Thomas ORAHOOD, Jr. Family

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Husband: Thomas ORAHOOD Jr.
Birthdate: about 1798
Birthplace:
Death date: between 1852/1860
Place of death: Iowa
Burial:
Father: Thomas Orchard
Mother: Sarah "Sally" Norman

Marriage date: 12 Oct 1820
Marriage place: Ross Co., Ohio

Wife: Catherine "Catie" BOWERS
Birthdate:
Birthplace:
Death date: 20 Sep 1831
Place of death: Indiana
Burial: Old Union Cemetery, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana
Father: Michael Bowers/Powers
Mother:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: John Wesley Orahood (see notes)
Sex: m
Birthdate: May 1827
Birthplace:
Death date: 22 Jul 1908
Place of death:
Burial: Brasher Cemetery, Cedar Co., Missouri
Marriage date: 9 Jan 1851 1 Mar 1855
Marriage place: both Schuyler Co., Illinois
Spouse's name: 1 Martha Ann Logan 2 Mary F. Bilderback

Child No. 2: Ethla Orahood (see notes)
Sex: f
Birthdate: 20 Sep 1828
Birthplace: Indiana
Death date: 24 Mar 1894
Place of death:
Burial: Plum Cemetery, Washington Twp., Logan Co., Ohio
Marriage date: 12 Sep 1846
Marriage place: Fayette Co., Ohio
Spouse's name: Ward Strope

Child No. 3: Andrew "Jackson" Orahood (see notes)
Sex: m
Birthdate: about 1833
Birthplace: Indiana
Death date: 10 Oct 1910
Place of death: Washington C.H., Fayette Co., Ohio
Burial: Compton Cemetery, Fayette Co., Ohio
Marriage date: 23 Jun 1860
Marriage place: Ross Co., Ohio
Spouse's name: Frances "Fanny" Skinner

Documentation:
* There is another family group sheet for Thomas Orahood Jr. and his second wife Elizabeth Ann Fisk.
* Thomas Orahood Jr. and wife Catie were traveling west through IN when Catie became ill. They stopped at the farm of Abraham and Elizabeth Bryant Bowers, Catie's aunt and uncle. Elizabeth cared for Catie until she died on Sept 20, 1831. Abraham Bowers, who owned land in Tippecanoe Co., donated several acres for a cemetery and Catie was the first person buried there, in the Old Union Cemetery, near Lafayette, IN.
* According to an article in the "Journal and Courier", Lafayette, Indiana dated Sun Jan 10, 1982, "Katie Arhood was a pioneer mother moving west with her husband, Thomas, and three children." According to family story, Thomas left his children with relatives in Ohio and moved to Iowa, where he did remarry.
* There is no explicit record of the names of those children. The ones I've included in this family group sheet are guesses. Ethla and Jackson were born in Indiana. Census records for Jackson don't all agree as to his year of birth, but the 1870 and 1880 records indicate that he was born about 1833, the year of Catie's death. It's possible that she died as a result of giving birth to him. In 1850 and 1860 Jackson was living with the family of Edward and Ethlin Young. Ethlin was Thomas Jr.'s sister. (See the family group sheet for the Edward Young family.) So the evidence in support of Andrew "Jackson" Orahood being a son of Thomas Jr. and Catie is the strongest.
* John Wesley Orahood doesn't fit into any other early Arahood/Orahood family. Census records for him all indicate that he was born in New York but later records for two of his children (Robert and Anna) indicate that their father was born in Ohio. (No other Orahood families have ties to New York.) I think it's possible that John Wesley didn't know where he was born if his father left him. Maybe Robert and Anna learned later where their father was really born. Thomas Jr. and Catie were most likely in Ohio before they went to Indiana, so it's entirely possible that one of their children, the oldest, was born there. John Wesley first appears (so far as I've found) in an 1850 census in Schuyler Co., Illinois, where he's living with the Eli Stevens family, who were from New York.
* More evidence that John Wesley Orahood was the son of Thomas Jr. and Catie might be found in the names of family members. John Wesley Orahood named his first son William Thomas and records show that William Thomas went by the name Thomas. Was he named after his grandfather? Also, Thomas Jr. and his second wife named a son Thomas Jefferson, after a historic person, so it would make sense that he named his first two sons after historic men, John Wesley and Andrew Jackson. (For more information on John Wesley Orahood, see his family group sheet.)
* The descendants of Thomas Orahood Jr. and second wife Elizabeth Ann Fisk use the spelling Arihood.