Thomas was married in Wheeling to Adelia Smith (1853 - ? ) from Sistersville, W. Va. around 1875. He worked with his father during the Civil War in the Franklin Shops in Tennessee, but there is no record of his being in the service during that War. He moved to his wife's hometown in the 1880s where his occupation was given as Wheelwright. Only two children:
417. Louie Delo
Louie drowned at a young age
128. Charles Battell Delo
Charles was the sixth son of David, and the last child born to David's first wife. As of 1880, he was residing in Elkhart, Indiana as a printer, was married, and had one child. The wife was Alice Dahle (1858 - ? ) of Callinsburg, Pa. They were married around 1878. Charles later had a second wife by whom he had the last two of his five children. Nothing is known of his family, except that one girl, Lavoisia, died at a young age, and that his first child, Marie (1878 - ?) was born in Pa.
130. Frank Sherman Delo
David's tenth child. He was born in a small cottage in Elkhart, Indiana. Of his education, he writes "The five years spent in county schools four in number and under eight teachers with three years spent in a job printing office were not conducive to scholarship". One of those schools was the Four Corners school in Beaver Twp., Clarion Co. which he attended in the 1870s, when his father returned to his home state. "Feeling the call of the ministry", he attended the public schools of Wheeling until January 1886, when he entered the preparatory department of Wittenburg College in Springfield, Ohio. From the Wittenburg Seminary, he was graduated in May, 1894. In his class was a future cousin-by-marriage, the father of Evelyn S. Delo. Frank was ordained by the Miami Synod on October 14, 1894. His pastoral experience began in Xenia, Ohio in 1892, continuing until 1942 at Hardy, Nebraska. During this stretch of time, he spent 19 years in Home Missionary work in the prairie and mountain states in the mid-west. In 1886 Frank became a Student Missionary Volunteer. He founded and edited the Children's Missionary in 1890; it was purchased three years later by the Woman's Missionary Society of the General Synod. This project plus a stereoptician lecture on missionary work in India and Africa were two firsts for the Lutheran Church. On June 27, 1900, Frank was married to Ina Salome Colbern in Topeka, Kansas. They had two children. When Frank retired, he lived with his daughter Frances in Nebraska .
Frances was born in Dakota, Illinois. She has lived and worked in Nebraska all of her life and has remained single. She was graduated from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and continues to have a fine singing voice. Frances is employed with the General Electric Co., in Millard, Nebraska.