Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Thomas ROE, farmer; P. O. Braidwood; was born in Lancashire, Eng., in 1820, and is the son 
of Henry and Mary (KNIGHT) ROE, of England; in 1855, be emigrated to America and landed in 
New York City; then to Illinois, and settled in Chicago; here he was engaged in the lumber 
business; he came to Will Co. in 1865, and first purchased eighty acres at $5 per acre; here 
he has lived ever since, engaged in farming; owns a good, improved farm of 200 acres. Mr. ROE 
is a very prominent member of the P. M. Church, having been a local preacher of this church 
over twenty years; is Superintendent of the Sunday School. Married in 1840, to Miss Sarah 
HILL of England, by whom they have five children living.