Theresa A. Miller

Ben M. Angel notes: Theresa was the key to linking the two marriages of Zebul Thomas. She was born from his first marriage with Chloe Howe in 1841, while he was still located in Washtenaw County. Chloe was living through a childbirth that took place in August 1847, after which she does not appear on any further records. Zebulon remarried in 1848 to Curance Ann Richmond in Washtenaw County. She was apparently still with the family when it relocated to Jamestown in Steuben County, Indiana, sometime before 1860 (Heman Thomas was born in Jamestown in 1865).

Theresa seems to be the first, and apparently only, name within Zebul's family derived from Greek origins (Anson is English, Elisha is Biblical, and Celia is Latin). Apparently, it was common in the county to take on Greek names for children, in celebration of the country's independence from the Ottoman Empire.

From United States Census, 1860 for Theresa Thomas:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M4NJ-B2L

• name: Theresa Thomas
• residence: , Steuben, Indiana
• ward: James Town Township
• age: 19 years
• estimated birth year: 1841
• birthplace: Michigan
• gender: Female
• page: 236
• family number: 1762
• film number: 803298
• dgs number: 4217776
• image number: 00240
• nara number: M653

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From the English Wikipedia page on Washtenaw County, Michigan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washtenaw_County,_Michigan

In 1822, the Legislative Council of the Michigan Territory government defined the boundaries of the county; however, it was deemed to be a part of Wayne County.

Washtenaw was established as a separate county by an act of the Michigan Territorial Legislature in 1826.[2] It was attached for administrative purposes to Wayne County until {before 1829} when county government was seated. Ingham and other counties were formed from portions of territorial Washtenaw County.

Swamps were drained and farms were tiled to lower the water table. The swamp northwest of the I-94 and US-23 intersection, and areas within Waterloo Recreation Area still appear as they did to early settlers. As productive farms became established, the local deer herds grew.

In the 1820s and 1830s, the events surrounding the independence of Greece from Turkey inspired construction of Greek Revival buildings, and the names of townships, towns, and children.

The "frostbitten constitutional convention" was held at Ann Arbor, the county seat, in 1835. Following resolution of the Toledo War (1835-1836), in which Michigan Territory gave up its claim to the Toledo strip in exchange for most of the Upper Peninsula, Michigan became a state on January 26, 1837.

The University of Michigan, founded at Detroit in 1817, was then moved by the state to Ann Arbor in 1839 as a consolation for the city not being named the new state capital, as it had hoped. The University subsequently became and remains the largest employer in the county.