h/o 1st Julia Kroiss, 2nd her younger sister, Elizabeth Gertrude Kroiss.

Birth: 4th of ten known children in Dodge Center, Dodge County, Minnesota.(first two born in New York other eight in Minnesota)

Lived in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri since 1932 at about 1221 south Main street (house south of then vacant lot south of 1217), family moved to southwest corner Forest & Pine streets, behind which the circuses would set up when in Carthage during the 1930-1940 era, then built new brick home at 1908 south Main street where his widow lived till her death, his chiropractor office on an upper floor of the Snyder building, #20 at 414 south Grant street, her Beauty shop, for years at southwest corner 5th & Main street, a structure inherited from Edith Kerr by my grandfather, S C Boggess, later in her home 1908 south Main street.

Census: 1900, age 23 Dodge Center Village, Wasioja, Dodge County, Minnesota, grocer, 1900 Dodge Center Village.

Census: 1910 Mandan, Morton County, North Dakota, head master in the state reform school 1910.

Event: WW I Draft Registration 12 SEP 1918 Oliver County, North Dakota

Census: 1920, age 42 Township 142, Oliver County, North Dakota
Note: On the 1920 census, Thomas is listed as widowed and a farmer

Census(Iowa): 1925, age 46 Davenport, Scott County, Iowa

Census: 1930, age 52 Jackson, Gentry County, Missouri
Note: On the 1930 census, Thomas indicates he was 32 years old at the time of his first marriage.

Death: at his office, 414 south Grant street, in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
The death certificate can be viewed at Missouri Digital Archives/death certificates online website.
informant, wife, Mrs T C Digby.

Father: John Digby b: FEB 1841 Cork Abbey, Bray, Labourer, Ireland
Mother: Ellen Conner b: NOV 1843 Seapark, Wicklow, Ireland
Youngest brother: Leslie Frank Digby b: 5 MAR 1888, Dodge county, Minnesota.

"Ellen Connor married John Digby on the 12th Oct 1870 at the Church of Ireland, Parish/District of Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland.

John Digby from Cork Abbey, Bray, Labourer, father's name John Digby, Ellen Connor from Seapark, Wicklow, father's name Thomas Connor

Witnesses: Henry Bowen & Margaret Malone

Their first two children, John H & Susan A were born in New York, others in Minnesota."

Source, received 16 August 2012, from cousin of and on behalf of John H C Digby's g.granddaughter.

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Marriage 1: Julia Kroiss b: FEB 1885 in Minnesota
Married: ABT 1909 in North Dakota.

Known Children

Helen Marie Digby b: 29 OCT 1910 in North Dakota

Dorothy Winifred Digby b: 4 OCT 1914 in Mandan, Morton County, North Dakota

Marriage 2: Elizabeth Gertrude Kroiss b: 13 OCT 1901 in North Dakota
Married: ABT 1923 currently unknown, thought to be North Dakota (?).

Known Children

June Harriett (twin) Digby b: 20 JUN 1924 in Center, Oliver County, North Dakota

Ernest Harvey (twin) Digby b: 20 JUN 1924 in Center, Oliver County, North Dakota

David Wallace Digby b: 16 JAN 1826 Davenport, Scott county, Iowa

Prepared in part by Bill Boggess.