Thomas B. Graham
William Graham, the first of the family name to come to America, was born in Scotland about 1750. When a lad he went to Ireland, remained there but a few years, when he came to the American Colonies a short time prior to the Revolutionary war and located in Pennsylvania. About the year 1775 he married Elizabeth Adair. They moved to Kentucky about 1795. They reared a family of nine children. He died about 1814. James A., the eldest of these children, was born in Pennsylvania in 1776. He went with his father’s family to Kentucky and participated in the protection of the frontier against the Indians. He had a brother, William B., who was shot and killed by the Indians on the Ohio River, which is spoken of in the History of Western Adventures. James A. married Sarah Bell in 1805. In 1819 they moved to Clarke County, Ohio; then to Miami County in 1820, and to Shelby County in 1822, and located in Turtle Creek Township. Their family at this time consisted of nine children. IN 1843 he moved to Orange Township, where he died in 1865, his wife having died in 1840. Thomas B. was born in Kentucky in 1810, consequently was twelve years of age when he came to Shelby County. He lived at home with his father until nineteen years of age, when he went to Piqua to learn the carpenter trade, which occupation he followed until 1861, when he bought a farm of 160 acres in Clinton Township, on which he located and remained until the fall of 1880, when his house was burned and he removed to the town of Sidney, where he now lives a retired life. In 1843 he married Miss Emma Robinson, who only lived about two years. In 1850 he married Jane E. Ginn. By this union they had seven children, five of whom are now living, viz., Samuel M., William A., Alex. D., John C., and George T.
From History of Shelby County, Ohio; R. Sutton & Co, Philadelphia PA, 1883