Thomas Briggs MAIN: Brooklyn Centre Change Log

1847 - 1930

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Birth 31 Dec 1847 Woodhouse,Norfolk Co.,Ontario,Canada

Gender Male

Died 17 Nov 1930 Midland,Midland Co.,Michigan

Person ID I41060 Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish

Last Modified 21 Feb 2000 00:00:00

Father Thomas Tyler MAIN, b. 9 Feb 1815, Oneida Co.,New York

Mother Mary Catharine CLINE, b. 1828

Family ID F16639 Group Sheet

Family Sarah Ida GOULD, b. 25 Jan 1858, Cramahe,Northumberland Co.,Ontario,Canada

Married 6 Nov 1877 Midland,Midland Co.,Michigan

Children

	1. Thomas Wilbur MAIN, b. Jan 1879, Midland,Midland Co.,Michigan
	2. Sidney Gould MAIN, b. 3 Oct 1880, Midland,Midland Co.,Michigan
	3. Mary Adeline MAIN, b. 1882, Midland,Midland Co.,Michigan
	4. George MAIN, b. 1883, Midland,Midland Co.,Michigan
	5. Miles MAIN, b. 1885, Midland,Midland Co.,Michigan
	6. Walter MAIN, b. 1887, Midland,Midland Co.,Michigan
	7. Sarah MAIN, b. 1888, Midland,Midland Co.,Michigan
	8. child MAIN, b. 1891, Midland,Midland Co.,Michigan
	9. Charles Sigsbee MAIN
	10. Gertrude MAIN

Family ID F15083 Group Sheet

Notes	THE MAIN TREE II, Second Edition, by Nancy (Portor) Childress, 1995. page213. Thomas was a farmer. He joined the Michigan Volunteer Army when hewas 18, 11 Oct 1864 at Detroit for one year joining the regiment atJohnsonville, Tennessee, 11 Nov 1864 and discharged at Washington, DC 19May 1865. After he mustered out he settled in Midland Michigan where hewas a grocer and then town recorder. Scott Dickinson - Dept. of Vererans Affairs records re: pensioncertificate 829,558 - Thomas B. Main - Co., # 23rd Michigan Infantry;Letterhead of Thomas B. Main listing "Midland County Abstracts and TaxHistories. Farms and Farming Lands, Real Estate Loans, Conveyancing";Declaration for Widow's Pension; Death Certificate for Thomas B. Main:Record of Service of Michigan Volunteers in the Civil War 186101865 pages1-3, 69; Midland County, Michigan Census Records 1850-1894. Compiled by theMidland Genealogical Society page 148 and 338. Midland County, Michigan Cemetery Records, Compiled by the MidlandGenealogical Society page 14 and 241. Picture of Thomas B. Main from County of Midland, Michigan OfficialRegister, History Art Folio and Directors 1897. Proclamation of Thomas B. Main from john A. Whitman, Mayor of Midland tosuspend business during the hour of the funeral for Thomas. & Variousnewspaper clippings.