Thomas Kenneth Mark was born 19 July 1879 in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio [son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter]. He married N. Regina Gruissy on 28 January 1903 in Medina, Ohio. They had seven children. Thomas was a farmer and a carpenter. Regina died 24 May 1959. Thomas died 12 February 1975. They are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Ohio.
1 Thomas Kenneth Mark b: 19 July 1879 Wooster, Wayne, OH, d: 12 Feb 1975 Wadsworth, Medina, OH
…… + Nancy Regina Victoria Gruissy b: 31 Jan 1879 in Sharon, Medina, OH, m: 28 Jan 1903 in Medina, OH, d: 24 May 1959 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH
…………2 Isabell Esther Mark b: 21 Dec 1903 in Medina, Medina, OH, d: 09 March 1984 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH
………… + Roy Edward Nee b: 09 April 1878 in McMinville, Tennessee, m: 05 Nov 1922 in Seville, Medina, OH, d: 20 March 1963 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH
………………3 Harold Jay Nee b: 03 Feb 1924 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH, d: 26 Sept 2002 in Tavares, Lake, FL
……………… + Pauline Harriet Beitzel Nee b: 15 March 1929 in Bittinger, Garrot, MD, m: 06 July 1948 in Bittinger, Garrot, MD, d: 10 Oct 1981 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH
………………3 Paul Kenneth Nee b: 16 April 1934 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH
……………… + Dorine Griesmer b: 18 Jan 1934 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH, m: 05 Sept 1953 in Decatur, Adams, Indiana, d: 1994
……………… + Virginia Burton Nee b: 06 July 1935 in Kansas, m: 24 July 1976 in Denver, Colorado
………… + William Ream b: 26 Nov 1909 in Medina, Ohio, m: 29 Jan 1977 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH, d: 08 Nov 2001 in OH
…………2 Vera Victoria Mark b: 27 July 1905 in Sharon, Medina, OH, d: 08 June 1995 in Tampa, Hillsborough, FL
………… + Robert E. Ballard b: 07 Sept 1891 Princeton, Gibson, Indiana, m: 26 May 1933 in Medina, OH
………………3 Vera Elizabeth Ballard b: 30 May 1940 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH
……………… + Butch Bowling
…………2 Ivy Regina Mark b: 08 June 1908 in Medina, Medina, Ohio, d: 18 Sept 2003 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, NY
………… + Roy Jesse Brown b: 08 March 1902 in Osyka, Pike, MS, m: 02 Aug 1927 in Seville, Medina, Ohio, d: 12 May 1956 in Magnolia, Pike, MS
………………3 Delbert Keith Brown b: 27 July 1928 in Rittman, Wayne, OH, d: 24 Oct 2000 in Hudson, Columbia, NY
……………… + Alberta Joy Gardner b: 26 March 1928 in Bronx, NY, m: 08 Aug 1948 in Germantown, Columbia, NY, d: 10 Aug 1992 in Albany, NY
………………3 Leo Dwight Brown
……………… + Barbara Jane Cottrell
………………3 Genevieve Audry Brown
……………… + Carlton John Wieland
……………… + Edward Schaperjahn
………………3 Jeanette Rose Brown b: 23 Nov 1934 OH, d: 15 July 1986 in Johnstown, Fulton, NY
……………… + Elmer Sparks b: 1929, m: 05 March, d: 1984
……………… + Jerry Wager
………………3 Larry Lee Brown b: 16 Feb 1937 in Sterling, Wayne, OH, d: 29 April 2004 in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, NY
……………… + Dorothy Grace Engel
………………3 Robert Allen Brown
………………3 William Lane Brown
…………2 Viola Cathern Mark b: 26 May 1913 Wadsworth, Medina, OH, d: 26 July 2004 Port Orange, FL
………… + Raymond Alexander Nothstein b: 17 Dec 1914 in Allentown, Lehigh, PA, m: 10 July 1935 in Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio, d: Abt. 1987
………………3 Loyal David Nothstein
……………… + Patricia Arlene
………………3 Norbert Allen Nothstein
……………… + Patricia Ann Wright Nothstein b: 25 Feb 1943, d: Dec 1968
……………… + Rita Bittner
………………3 Benieta Elaine Nothstein
……………… + James Franklin Pierce II
………………3 Kenneth Howard Nothstein
……………… + Sharon J. Sadler Nothstein
……………… + Judy Bryant Nothstein
…………2 Owen Andrew Mark b: 24 May 1915 in Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio, d: 12 Oct 1993 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH
………… + Blanche Adele Bowers b: 03 Oct 1919 in Lester, Ohio, m: 03 Aug 1942, d: 03 March 1997 in Perris, Riverside, California
………………3 Danny A. Mark b: 16 Dec 1946 in Wadsworth, Medina, OH, d: 15 Sept 1974 in Carson, Los Angeles, California
………………3 Denny B. Mark
……………… + Marie Elena Koett
…………2 Clarence William Mark b: 30 May 1917 in Ohio, d: 01 Aug 2006 in Greenville, Darke, OH
………… + Lavon Eleanor Moyer b: 27 Sept 1924 in Cincinatti, Hamilton, OH, m: 23 Nov 1950 in Greenville, Darke, OH, d: 11 Sept 2007 in Greenville, Darke, OH
………………3 Teresa Ann Mark
……………… + James Darrell Fryman
………………3 Glenda Faye Jordan
……………… + Robert Walter Jordan
…………2 Wava Alice Mark b: 22 Jan 1919 Sharon, Medina, OH, d: 15 April 2011 OH
………… + Alvin Henry Braun b: 18 Aug 1915 in Kent, Portage, Ohio, m: 11 Jan 1941 in Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio, d: 04 June 2000
………………3 Ann Irene Braun
……………… + John Warren Long
………………3 Alvina Jane Braun
……………… + John Kazar
……………… + Thomas Carl Smith
……………… + William Richard Perry
……………… + Robert Kennedy
Selected Sources:
- Birth Record for Thomas K. Mark, 19 July 1879, Vol 2, Page 200, #25, Wayne Co Probate Court, Court House, 107 W Liberty St., Wooster, Ohio. Parents: William Marks & Lydia R. Ritter in Chester.
- 1880 US Census, Wayne Co. Ohio
- 1900 US Census, Medina Co, Ohio
- Probate Court, Medina Co., Ohio, Marriage License & Certificate # 780 Thomas K. Mark & Regina V, Gruissy, m. 28 Jan 1903
- 1910 US Census, Westfield Twp, Medina Co, Ohio T K Mark family
- World War One Draft Registration Card Sept 1918 T Kenneth Mark
- 1920 US Census, Seville Village, Medina Co, Ohio T K Mark family
- 1930 US Census, Guilford, Medina Co, Ohio Thomas K Mark family
- 1940 US Census, OH, Medina Co, SD 23, ED 52-25;TK Mark family
- World War II Draft Registration Card for Thomas Kenneth Mark
- Unknown Ohio Newspaper clipping, July 1974 “Thomas Mark Celebrates 95 Birthday”
- Ohio Dept. of Health, Div. of Vital Statistics, Certificate of Death, Reg. Dist. #5201, Primary Reg. Dist. #5201, State File #021347, Reg. #19 Thomas K. Mark
- Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery, Section #29
- The Medina County Genealogical Society, Tombstone Inscriptions from the Cemeteries in Medina County, Ohio, 1983. Evansville, Indiana: Whipporwill Publications, 1984.Page 28.
- Interviews with family members, family trees, groups sheets and other information from family members.
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