Birth name was Tunis Augustus Snook. Changed it when he immigrated to the U.S. Thomas' mother passed away and his father remarried to her younger sister Jane. Thomas was farmed out as a ranch hand in 1871 with the John and Eliza Hewton family of Storrington Township, Ontario, Canada. He became a teacher at 17 and eventually travelled to New York. According to the 1900 Kansas census he emigrated in 1880. He had an early job as a milliner, designing lady's hats and a teacher. Eventually he went to medical school and began his medical career in Bigelow, Marshall County, Kansas where he was to meet Wardie. Together they moved westward with Thomas working as a horse and buggy doctor in places like Rabbit Hole, Wyoming and Blackfoot, Idaho where he may have been an Indian Agency doctor.
He loved best working in the mining and logging camps rather than in a regular medical practice. He was always going off and leaving Wardie on her own with the family. He used to take trips into the hills prospecting, to "get away". Once he brought back some gold ore samples and had them assayed. They were good - but no one knows where they came from, he never told anyone. Thomas was also a minister, of sorts, a poet and a song writer. Here is one of his poems:
It is no sin to take a drink
Of water from the well,
To press and drink the blood of grapes
won't send your soul to Hell
To make and drink the sparkling wine
Will not invite the rod,
Because the same was made and drunk
By Christ, the Son of God.
When Moses to the Levites gave
Jehovah's law divine,
Take tithes of all, commanded he,
Of corn, and oil and wine.
The wise man said, in sickness dire
When death is hov'ring near,
To give strong drink, and when in sorrow
Give wine man's heart to cheer.
And thus we learn throughout the Word
If health and joy we'd win,
Use all God's gifts with temperance
Excess -- the only sin.
He loved best working in the mining and logging camps rather than in a regular medical practice. He was always going off and leaving Wardie on her own with the family. He used to take trips into the hills prospecting, to "get away". Once he brought back some gold ore samples and had them assayed. They were good - but no one knows where they came from, he never told anyone. Thomas was also a minister, of sorts, a poet and a song writer. Here is one of his poems:
It is no sin to take a drink
Of water from the well,
To press and drink the blood of grapes
won't send your soul to Hell
To make and drink the sparkling wine
Will not invite the rod,
Because the same was made and drunk
By Christ, the Son of God.
When Moses to the Levites gave
Jehovah's law divine,
Take tithes of all, commanded he,
Of corn, and oil and wine.
The wise man said, in sickness dire
When death is hov'ring near,
To give strong drink, and when in sorrow
Give wine man's heart to cheer.
And thus we learn throughout the Word
If health and joy we'd win,
Use all God's gifts with temperance
Excess -- the only sin.
Birth name was Tunis Augustus Snook. Changed it when he immigrated to the U.S. Thomas' mother passed away and his father remarried to her younger sister Jane. Thomas was farmed out as a ranch hand in 1871 with the John and Eliza Hewton family of Storrington Township, Ontario, Canada. He became a teacher at 17 and eventually travelled to New York. According to the 1900 Kansas census he emigrated in 1880. He had an early job as a milliner, designing lady's hats and a teacher. Eventually he went to medical school and began his medical career in Bigelow, Marshall County, Kansas where he was to meet Wardie. Together they moved westward with Thomas working as a horse and buggy doctor in places like Rabbit Hole, Wyoming and Blackfoot, Idaho where he may have been an Indian Agency doctor.
He loved best working in the mining and logging camps rather than in a regular medical practice. He was always going off and leaving Wardie on her own with the family. He used to take trips into the hills prospecting, to "get away". Once he brought back some gold ore samples and had them assayed. They were good - but no one knows where they came from, he never told anyone. Thomas was also a minister, of sorts, a poet and a song writer. Here is one of his poems:
It is no sin to take a drink
Of water from the well,
To press and drink the blood of grapes
won't send your soul to Hell
To make and drink the sparkling wine
Will not invite the rod,
Because the same was made and drunk
By Christ, the Son of God.
When Moses to the Levites gave
Jehovah's law divine,
Take tithes of all, commanded he,
Of corn, and oil and wine.
The wise man said, in sickness dire
When death is hov'ring near,
To give strong drink, and when in sorrow
Give wine man's heart to cheer.
And thus we learn throughout the Word
If health and joy we'd win,
Use all God's gifts with temperance
Excess -- the only sin.
He loved best working in the mining and logging camps rather than in a regular medical practice. He was always going off and leaving Wardie on her own with the family. He used to take trips into the hills prospecting, to "get away". Once he brought back some gold ore samples and had them assayed. They were good - but no one knows where they came from, he never told anyone. Thomas was also a minister, of sorts, a poet and a song writer. Here is one of his poems:
It is no sin to take a drink
Of water from the well,
To press and drink the blood of grapes
won't send your soul to Hell
To make and drink the sparkling wine
Will not invite the rod,
Because the same was made and drunk
By Christ, the Son of God.
When Moses to the Levites gave
Jehovah's law divine,
Take tithes of all, commanded he,
Of corn, and oil and wine.
The wise man said, in sickness dire
When death is hov'ring near,
To give strong drink, and when in sorrow
Give wine man's heart to cheer.
And thus we learn throughout the Word
If health and joy we'd win,
Use all God's gifts with temperance
Excess -- the only sin.
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