History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 793.
[Nicholas County]  [Union Precinct]

ERASMUS THOMAS, farmer, P. O. Moorefield, was born in Nicholas County,
Ky., May 18, 1826, to James and Nancy (Hayden) Thomas; he to Erasmus and
Lydia (Fishback) Thomas, in Virginia, Nov. 12, 1799, and died Jan. 5, 1873.
Nancy, his wife, was born in Bourbon County, Jan. 6, 1804, and died June
16, 1877.  She was the mother of seven children, of whom Erasmus, our
subject, was the oldest.  His education was limited to such as could be
obtained in the common schools of that early day.  He began his career in
life as a farm hand, and by his energy and economy earned and saved money,
with which he purchased fifty acres of land, which he sold two years later
and bought 130 acres.  He traded extensively in young cattle, and, as he
expresses it, made the most of his property by the use of blue grass.  He
was married in Nicholas County, Jan. 24, 1850, to Miss Elizabeth Boardman,
who was born in Nicholas County, Sept. 12, 1828.  They have six children,
viz: Mary L., Nancy L., wife of William Gore; Amanda F., wife of E. Ralls;
James A., William and Erasmus.  Mrs. Thomas was a daughter of Abner and
Mary (Crose) Boardman, natives of Bourbon County.  He was born April 16,
1801; died Aug. 29, 1875.  She was born Jan. 3, 1806; died Jan. 30, 1878.
Mr. Thomas is one of the most prominent and enterprising farmers in the
precinct, and owns 500 acres of choice farm land, which, as a practical
farmer, he keeps in a high state of cultivation, well stocked and well
seeded with blue grass, which his father was the first to bring into
notice and use, in the region of Summerset Creek in the year 1828.  Mr.
Thomas was at one time a prominent member of the Grange.  Politically he
is a Republican.

Thomas Hayden Fishback Boardman Crose Ralls Gore
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Bourbon-KY VA

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