Thomas Beach Roe

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="0a5d05a3.jpg"> <div> Orange County, New York</div> <div> American History and Genealogy Project</div> <div> Thomas Beach Roe</div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="0a6d2123.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/orange/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/county/or"><U>Orange County AHGP/ALHN</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ny/state/"><U>New York AHGP/ALHN</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://ahgp.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://ahgp.org"><U>AHGP</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://alhn.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://alhn.org"><U>ALHN</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="623" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 729 WIDTH="617"><div> <IMG SRC="065d9270.jpg" border=0 width="217" height="295" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Old English Text MT" >I</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Georgia" >S the brother of Charles B. Roe, and was born near Oxford Depot, N. Y., 1847.  He had all the influences of a Christian home from his earliest infancy.  But in addition to that, all the children of Nathaniel and Sarah Board Roe were taught diligence, frugality, honesty and love for the Church.</FONT></div> <div>      Born in the house where he now lives, though it has had many additions since then, he moved with his parents, in 1855, to the homestead now occupied by his brother Henry.    He left his father's house to take up work for himself on the old homestead in 1869, and has made that his home ever since.</div> <div>       After having lived for fifteen years in his modest bachelor way with his brother Charles B. and sister Hannah E. as companions, he persuaded a pretty little school teacher, Miss Elizabeth Pearsall Gaunt, to become his wife, May 15th, 1884.  She is the daughter of Delaplain and Penelope Gaunt, and her mother still lives with her.  She is as remarkable a woman as his mother, and has proved herself in every way the companion he needed.  She is intelligent, capable, thrifty, sincere, benevolent, earnest and deeply spiritual.  She is a thoroughly consecrated, genial woman.  They have two children living, William and Thomas B., their eldest having died when five years of age with that dreaded disease-diptheria.</div> <div>      In addition to the school privileges which Oxford Depot afforded, Mr. Roe had the benefit of the noted schools at Chester, Cooperstown, N. Y., and East Hampton, Mass.</div> <div>      He was received into the Church at the early age of ten years by the beloved Pastor of the Chester Presbyterian Church, Rev. James W. Wood, during a series of special meetings in 1857 and 1858.</div> <div>      Mr. Roe's vocation is that of a dairy farmer.  He has evidently been quite successful in it, as the little house of his father's has grown to be quite a spacious residence with all the modern improvements and conveniences.  It is thoroughly heated with steam radiators, and is supplied with water from the Chester water main.  The barn, too, is supplied with water from the same source, and has every facility connected with it for making the dairy profitable.</div> <div>      Mr. Roe has by nature a strong religious character, which has been faithfully cultivated and is thoroughly reliable.  He attends religious service in all kinds of weather and under all circumstances.  And while not gifted in the art of oratory, he is always willing to testify his love for Christ and lead the people to God in prayer.</div> <div>      He was elected Elder in 1889, and has served the Church most faithfully in that relation ever since.</div> <div>      Quiet, unassuming, steadfast as the Scotch granite character from which he has sprung, he is recognized as one of the pillars of the Church which he so generously and willingly sustains.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="pg35.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="John N. Bernat"><U>Next Page</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="pg1.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Table of Contents"><U>Table of Contents</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>