Perry Thomas was the second oldest son and third child of James Thomas and Mary Standley Thomas. He was born on May 25, 1797 in Trigg County, Kentucky. He was small of stature, of sanguine temperament, quick spoken and of active movement. His manner was prepossessing and his countenance pleasing.
He was a farmer by occupation, but much of his time was given to the service of the public in some public capacity. For twenty-one years he was County Assessor, and he was the enumerator of the census of 1870 and 1880, and no man in the county was better qualified for the discharge of these arduous and responsible duties than he was, for he always discharged his duties and met his obligations faithfully. The positions he filled brought him in contact with the people of the entire county, and no man in the county knew so many people and so much about them through this period of more than a quarter of a century.
His long continuance in official positions was abundant evidence of his business qualities, his honor and his industry, and he went down to his grave without a stain upon his reputation, dying at his old homestead on Donaldson Creek in 1886, in his 89th year. His progeny were numerous, having raised nine sons and four daughters. These sons and daughters and their children largely lived in Trigg County. His oldest son, Albert, became a physician and was said to be the oldest practitioner in Trigg County.
By Cyrus Thompson, as published in The Kentucky Telephone in the 1890’s
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(Perry Thomas was the third child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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