Friend Thrall (1796 - 1832)

Born Jul 1796 in East Granby, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Jerusha (Drake) Thrall — married 1818 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Died 28 Oct 1832 at age 36 in Lake Erie

Biography

Friend was born in 1796. He was the son of Worthy Thrall and Sarah Phelps. He passed away in 1832.

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #197343920
• Connecticut Herald (New Haven, CT, Tuesday, Dec 08, 1818) Vol: XVI, Issue: 9

• "Married, In Hartford... Mr. Friend Thrall, of Granby, to Miss Jerusha Drake."

• Cabinet (Schenectady, NY, Wednesday, Nov 07, 1832) Vol: XXIII, Issue: 1165, Page: 2.

• "Shipwreck On Lake Erie"
• "The Connecticut Courant publishes the following letter, dated Windsor, Ohio, Oct. 15th:"
• "Dear Sir - With painful emotions I hasten to announce to you the sad intelligence of the loss of Friend Thrall and his family, from Granby, Conn., and Henry A. Holcomb's wife and child, from Simsbury, together with four other persons, viz : tow sailors, a lady, and a little girl, belonging to Ashtabula, on the lake, Saturday morning, 28th Sept. about four or five o'clock. Respecting particulars, I can merely say, that the vessel capsized in a gale of wind and went to the bottom. Mr. Thrall and family, with Mrs. Holcomb and child, are probably in the vessel which is sunk in 50 or 60 feet water; the top of the mas is about 8 feet out and strange to relate, the captain and the hands, with Mr. John White of Ohio, Alexander Holcomb and his son Henry A. Holcomb, from Simsbury, clung to the rigging about the top of the mast, until Saturday evening at 5 o'clock, say 12 or 13 hours, when they were carried to Cleveland. They staid at my house last night, and have gone this morning down the lake to the place where the vessel is. The vessel went down off Salem about 5 or 6 miles; they are in hopes of being able to raise it and obtain their bodies which seems now to be their greatest trouble..."