An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 404-405 

	THOMAS PAUL, a pioneer and honored citizen of Walla Walla county.
Washington, was born in Monroe county, West Virginia, December 19, 1828. His
father, Joseph Paul, was a native of the same State, and married Miss Mary
Cummins, also a Virginian. In 1830 they removed to Indiana, settling in Henry
county, where they lived until 1845, when they moved to Iowa and settled in
Wapello county, living there and in Mahaska county until 1862. Being a
frontiersman by nature, he then decided to try a new country, and with ox teams
crossed the plains to Washington, consuming five months on the way, and barely
escaping from the Indians on several occasions. Their train lost some of their
men, as they strayed too far. Almost all of the time there were fifty wagons in
the train, and the Indians were afraid to make any attack on so large a company.
	After their arrival in Washington, Mr. Paul settled on Dry creek, in Walla
Walla county, and here he died in the spring of 1885, at the age of seventy-nine
years, his wife surviving him until 1887, when she died at the age of eighty-one
years. They reared a family of seven children, and our subject was the third
child of the family, only three of whom are yet surviving.
	Our subject had always lived near his father's home, and when the latter
began to plan for the far-off trip he decided to accompany him, did so, and
settled in the same locality. During the long trip overland the wife of Mr. Paul
died. Her sickness was of short duration, and her body had to be left buried
alone on the great plain. After reaching Washington, our subject bought a right
to 160 acres, proved up the land, and ever since has continued here, where he
now has 430 acres of fine land in the Dry creek bottoms of Walla Walla valley.
Here he has made many improvements; has erected a nice residence, barn and all
of the outbuildings necessary for the proper conducting of a first-class farm,
and here he secures great yields of grain and hay and also some fine stock.
	Owing to the pioneer settlements made by his father, he never had much
chance for an education, and has been obliged to get along with what was
imparted to him in the little log schoolhouse of Indiana. He was first married,
in 1849, to Miss Elizabeth Mortimore, a native of Indiana, and she died on the
plains in 1862. She left five children, as follows: Louisa J., now the wife of
T.W. Estes, in Oregon; Melvina, the wife of R.W. Doke; Isaac E., at home with
his father; Harriet E., the wife of J.L. Reed, residing at Port Angeles,
Washington; Martha A., who married George W. Stowell, but is now deceased, as is
also Lucinda, who was the wife of James H. Story, of southern Oregon.
	Mr. Paul was married, in 1863, to Mrs. Susan Zaring, the widow of Eli
Zaring. Her maiden name was Susan Ellis, and she was a native of Virginia, who
moved to Iowa in 1851, and came to Washington in 1862. She had one daughter by
her first marriage, Sarah, who became the wife of Joshua A. Howard, now of
Milton, Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Paul have four children: William D., at home; Emma
F., living with her uncle at Olympia; Eva L.; and Ida S, wife of Prof. E.H.
Thompson, now lives at Kendricks, Idaho. Eva L. is teaching school in the
county. Another member of the family is a little granddaughter, Dora Paul, a
daughter ofí Isaac.
	Our subject has had many troubles, and it required much management to secure
a start in a new country with a large family, but he has succeeded, and may be
proud of his family of boys and girls. For the last thirty years he has been a
local preacher and officiates when he is called upon, believing this to be his
duty.
	The first presidential vote of our subject was cast for James Buchanan, but
at the opening of the Rebellion he changed his views and has since that time
been a straight-out Republican. He has never devoted much time to politics,
merely voting to assist in the election of the men who will do the best work for
the country.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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