William Beatty Thacker b. 27 Oct 1837 Goshen, Clermont County, Ohio, United States d. 8 Dec 1899 Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States: Tangled Roots

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Name	William Beatty Thacker
Born	27 Oct 1837	Goshen, Clermont County, Ohio, United States [1]
Gender	Male
Military	Between 1861 and 1864 [2]
	Civil War, Company C, 2nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Census	1870	Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States [3]
	as William Thacker, head of household
Buried	Dec 1899	Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States [4]
	Address: Oakwood Cemetery
Died	8 Dec 1899	Traverse City, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States [5]
Person ID	I8977	TangledRoots
Last Modified	22 Oct 2021

Father	William Thacker, b. 22 Apr 1797, Essex County, New York, United States , d. 22 Apr 1878, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States (Age 81 years)
Mother	Hester Beatty, b. Bedford County, Pennsylvania, United States , d. 1844
Married	1818
Family ID	F3603	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Mary Caroline Lackey, b. 17 Jun 1843, Ridgeville, Warren County, Ohio, United States , d. 30 Aug 1923, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, United States (Age 80 years)

Married 12 Oct 1865 Warren County, Ohio, United States [6, 7]

Children

	1. Roland B. Thacker, b. 1 Jul 1866, d. 14 May 1922, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Winsconsin, United States (Age 55 years)
	2. Agnes Thacker, b. Abt 1868, Ohio, United States , d. Yes, date unknown

Last Modified 16 Jan 2022

Family ID F3600 Group Sheet | Family Chart

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W. B. Thacker, farmer; Ridgeville; was born in Clermont County, Ohio, Jan. 5, 1838; is a son of William and Hester Thacker. The grandfather was Townsend Thacker, who, in 1815, with his family and two or three other families, emigrated from Essex County, N. Y., to Ohio. They came via Buffalo to Pittsburgh, and there purchased a flat-boat on which to descend the Ohio to Cincinnati. The wagons and other goods were placed on the boat, while his son William, then 18 years of age, and a younger brother, came overland with the horses, six in number; a greater part of the distance was through an almost unbroken wilderness; they expected to meet the boat on their arrival at Cincinnati, but, owing to the low stage of water in the river, it had not arrived. For six long weeks, day after day, the boys watched for the boat; finally, it made its appearance. Imagination can hardly portray the anxiety of those boys, as they waited day after day and week after week, being entirely ignorant of the cause of the boat's delay, not having heard a word from them after leaving them at Pittsburgh. After spending the winter in prospecting in Indiana and Kentucky, they finally settled near Goshen, Clermont County, Ohio. William, the father of our subject, was born in Essex County, N. Y. April 22, 1797; was married, in 1818, to Hester Beatty, a native of Bedford County, Penn; she died, in 1844, leaving a family of seven children, of whom five still survive. Subsequently, Mr. Thacker married, for his second wife, Mary Lackey, by whom he had five children, all of whom are still living. In the year 1849, Mr. Thacker with his family removed to Defiance County, Ohio. The subject of this sketch grew to manhood, receiving but limited privileges for obtaining an education, and these few were in the common district schools, and, after 11 years of age, he was limited to three months each year, and those who are familiar with the limited school facilities of the sparsely settled county of Defiance thirty years ago can realize how meager were his opportunities; but, by his own personal effort, with persistent study at home, he acquired a fair education and when 19 years of age commenced teaching and has taught at different times--in all about five years. In 1861, he enlisted in Company C, 2d O. V. I., and served three years and three months in the 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, and participated in most of the battles in which that division was engaged; he was severely wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, but returned to duty and was mustered out with the regiment at Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 10, 1864. In 1865, he was married to Miss Callie Lackey, by whom he has four children--Roland, Agnes, Hettie and Edna. In 1869, Thacker was elected Clerk of Clear Creek Township, and re-elected twelve successive years. [Source: Chicago: W. H. Beers & County, "The History of Warren County, Ohio", (reprint, Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphic, Inc. 1972) Biographical Sketches, pg. 932, 933]