The Family of Thomas Henry QUANTRILL
and Caroline Cornelia CLARKE

346.5d Thomas Henry QUANTRILL, b. 19 Feb 1813, Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD, d. 7 Dec 1854, Canal Dover (now Dover), Tuscarawas Co., OH, m. 11 Oct 1836, prob. in Chambersburg, PA, Caroline Cornelia CLARKE, b. Feb 1824, Somerset Co., PA. Thomas was tinker by trade, later becoming a tinner, opening a tin shop in Canal Dover, Tuscarawas Co., OH. He married his wife, Caroline, who he may have met when visiting relatives in Chambersburg. After the marriage, he and  his wife moved to Canal Dover, OH, where there were quite a few families from Hagerstown, MD. he published a mathematic book 'Lightning Calculator' and fro a few years traveled and sold this math aide. He later opened a tin shop in Canal Dover. He also published a book entitled 'Tinner's Guide'. He borrowed funds to publish the book from the school funds he was in charge of as a member of the school board. He apparently had some difficulty with this and one of the other board members, whom he intended to attack, but was himself attacked and severely beaten. Despite this problem, he later served as a secondary and primary principal of the school system in Canal Dover until his death in 1854. In 1860 Caroline was living in Canal Dover with sons Franklin and Thomas. In 1870 through 1880 she was in Dover. In 1900 she was in the Tuscarawas Co. Infirmary. Cornelia is bur. in Fourth Street Ecm., Dover. The cem. records of Tuscawaras Co., do not reveal any graves for the children who d. in infancy, nor a grave for Thomas Henry. (FH50 p29-41, OHTWB1 p463, 2-3 , OHTW6-9) Children:

346.5d1 William Clarke QUANTRILL, b. 31 Jul 1837, Dover, Tuscarawas Co., OH, d. aft. 1 May 1865, near Fairfield, KY. At the age of 16 he taught one of the lower grades at his father's school in Dover. About 1854 he attended school at Fort Wayne, Allen Co., IN, studying math and latin. He returned to Dover about 1856. About 1857, he and two friends removed to KS, where he taught school at Stanton, Miami Co., KS. In 1860 he and 3 other went to Independence, Jackson Co., MO to rob a farmer who lived near Blue Springs. They rode to the house and the three others were killed. QUANTRILL reportedly betrayed the others. He then taught school at Santa Fe (probably in KS). When the civil war broke out he placed himself under Governor Price of MO and was put in a command of 100 men, with his headquarters in Jackson Co., MO. With this force he pillaged and burned towns in Kansas and Missouri. It is believed he was commissioned a Col. in the Confederate Army at Richmond, Henrico Co., VA. Charles F. Taylor of Joplin, MO, on of his lieutenants sated that QUANTRILL was 'Humane and kind, as some can testify at Lawrence, where he saved a great many". Read the description of the Lawrence Massacre. He had 296 men under his command, although not all were present all of the time. The raid on Lawrence include his whole command although some were not present. He supposedly was very lax with his command. He would divide his command into groups, and have them attack using his name, giving the impression he was in more than one place at the same time. On 1 mar 1865 he was wounded and captured near Fairfield, KY. He died a few weeks later in a hospital at Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY, and was buried in a Catholic cem. (Portland, later St. Joseph's Cem.). Some people in Dover who knew him as a child say he was like the other boys, quiet and civil. Others say he mistreated animals, was wild and unruly, and that his parents sent him to Indiana to get him out of Dover. There is no record that he ever married. For more information on QUANTRILL read: Quantrill and the Border Wars, by William Elsey Connelley, Pageant Book Co., NY, 1956.

Some of famous or infamous men in his command:

346.5d3 Franklin QUANTRILL b. 12 Nov 1840, OH, d. c1882, probably Dover, Tuscarawas Co., OH, m. 4 Jan 1871, Tuscarawas Co., Caroline A. HALDERMAN b. c1843, OH. In 1870 Franklin was a farm laborer living in the home of Louis Wentling and wife Charlotte, in Dover Twp., Tuscarawas Co. In 1880 the family was living in Dover. Before 1888 the daughters were named in a guardian account in Tuscarawas Co. (File A 2184 Docket 5-114). One of the daughters taught school in Dover. Franklin has a white swelling in a knee which crippled him for live. He was in the business of fur-dressing, however he was described as a laborer in the 1870 and 1880 census. (FH50 p29-30, OHTSB4-5, OHTW7-8, US1)

346.3d3c Susan Gertrude QUANTRILL b. c1878, OH, m. 1904, Walter R. ANDERSON b. c1870, OH. In 1910 and 1920 they were living in Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., OH; in 1910 Walter was a painting contractor and they were living in the 24th. Ward; in 1920 he was a house painter living in Brocklyn Twp. (OHCY10-11) Children:

246.6d6 Thomas (Thompson?) QUANTRILL b. 3 Oct 1845/46. In 1860 Thomas was living with his mother in Dover, Tuscarawas Co., OH. In 1870, he was a soldier stationed at Omaha Barricks, Omaha, Douglas Co., NE. In 1879-1880 he visited MO and KS, and for sometime was in Jackson Co., MO, at the home of William H. Gregg. Letters to his mother indicate he was in Tucson, AR from 10 Feb 1888 to 23 Apr 1888. In an interview with his mother on 13 May 1888, she stated he was in MT, married, and had a family. A letter 17 Feb 1890 from Burnet or Austin, TX, does not indicate that he was married or had a family. (FH30 p30-31, OHTW6, NEDG2) For more information on Thomas read: Quantrill and the Border Wars, by William Elsey Connelley, Pageant Book Co., NY, 1956.

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