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I cleaned this up a bit while in a library after a lecture on Illinois' bicentennial, but ancestry.com was acting up again, and I got kicked out as the library closed. Oddly, one record indicates he was a veteran of the War of 1812 and ultimately buried as such. I know Lincoln and many others also served in that war or the Blackhawk war. I don't remember Thomas' attitude on slavery in the Illinois Constitutional Convention, but a quick ancestry.com search does not show him as owning slaves in 1850, but instead living with his elderly wife, a middle-aged American-born servant and two Irish servants. I know his name is common, including among Quakers, but cannot quickly discern his religion -- and I have pressing personal matters to attend to the rest of the week. I did note that Southern Illinois University Press recently published a book about his role in the Missouri Compromise, so I hope someone can clean this up further. Jweaver28 ( talk) 02:10, 7 June 2018 (UTC) reply