Johann Frank THOMAS
Certificate of Marriage
FamilySearch.org/FamilyTree
Famlienbuch Klotter, Rheinland, Prussia, 1807-1899 (FHL#943 B4do Ser. A Vol423 pt2)
FindaGrave.com, Abelona lists birth Jan 1840
NOTE: According to a Rock Island County, Illinois Newspaper Article dated 21 Nov 1866, John 'Frank' Thomas drowned while crossing the river from Hampton to Valley City in a skiff loaded with wood.
NOTE: living in Hampton, Rock Island, Illinois in 1860
He married Abelona C. Eckhardt 7 May 1861 at Davenport, Scott, Iowa . Abelona C. Eckhardt was born at Gluckstadt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 26 Apr 1838 daughter of Diedrich Eckhardt and Anna Fett .
They were the parents of 4
children:
John Paul Thomas
born 8 Mar 1862.
Frances Abelona Thomas
born 17 Sep 1865.
Norman Charles Thomas
born 10 Apr 1866.
Frank Henry Jacob Thomas
born 1 May 1867.
Johann Frank Thomas died 9 Nov 1866 at Pleasant Valley, Scott, Iowa .
Abelona C. Eckhardt died 12 May 1925 at Rapid City, Pennington, South Dakota .