William Wilson Thom

William Wilson Thom was born March 16, 1788 in Derry township, Westmoreland Count,
Pennsylvania. About the year 1806 he married Charlotte Austin who was born in 1786; died in 1851
and is buried in the Owen Creek Cemetery near Charlestown, Indiana. Charlotte Austin was the
daughter of Moses and Sarah Austin. The will of Moses Austin was probated in Venango County,
Pennsylvania in the year 1806. William Wilson Thom and Charlotte Austin Thom moved to Indiana
about 1814 and settled in the town of Madison and a few years later moved to a farm in Clark
County, about seven miles from Charlestown. The Owen Creek Presbyterian Church was situated in
one corner of a five hundred acre tract and their home was in the opposite corner of the tract.
William Wilson Thom died about the year 1830 and his widow married a Mr. Henderson and again
a Mr. James McGee, a brother of the husband of one of her daughters.