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32 ZADOC TOMLINSON of Eaton, Ohio was born in North Carolina, 1764. Leander W. Tomlinson, his great grandson, reports that he was born in either Scotland or Ireland however from the fact that his older brother was born in North Carolina, it is quite probable that he was born there. His wife's name is unknown, but he must have been married in N. C. as his children were born there. His family consisted of 5 sons and 3 daughters: Thomas, 1795; Pernel, 1799; Elizabeth, 1802; John K., 1806; Anna, 1810; Sarah, 1815; and Zadoc, 1818.
Zadoc Sr. moved from N. C. to Ohio about 1814 being one of the first to come north. As to what prompted him to leave the south is not known unless it was the poor wornout soil which would produce only one cornstalk to the hill and the hills had to be five feet apart. Grandmother Heath used to dispute that as she claimed that when a girl she helped to blade the corn and they placed the bundles between the stalks which would have been impossible where there was only one stalk in a hill. From the fact that they had to blade the corn indicates that feed was very scarce and therefore a very poor farming country.
It is reported that Zadoc had a brother George who went to Canada and was never heard from afterwards. Another report is that he settled near Philadelphia and being a Quaker dropped his relatives who were Episcopalians. We have found Tomlinsons in Iowa who trace their ancestry back to Isaac Tomlinson, a Quaker who settled near Philadelphia.
The descendants of Zadoc came west and settled in Indiana. One member, Thomas, settling near Whitestown and becoming the ancestor of that branch, Sarah, Elizabeth and John K. settling near Muncie and Zadoc settling near Indianapolis where he left a large and respectable posterity; The same should be said of those settling near Muncie.