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FindAGrave #40055721
The only Child of Eleanor Burke Hall & William Ratcliff
Thomas was raised by his step mother Susannah Thomas -Curtis Ratcliff on "Sarah's Fancy " with his Step Brothers ( Susannah's Children by Nathaniel Curtis ) and his Half Brothers John, James ,William and Zacariah Ratliff until the move to Anson Co NC where he married 6 MAR 1779 Sarah Diggs daughter of William Degge and Judith HALEY Hailey
all who had moved to Anson From Colonial Louisa Va
Thomas was a Revolution Militia member in Anson Co
Per Howard Hazelwood on 15 Oct 1783 Thomas Ratliff recieved 22 pounds at the Salisbury District Office for Revolutionary War Claims thus letting us know Thomas was in Service during the Revolutionary War as A Patriot
Source: Haun, Weynette Parks. North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts: Secretary of State, Treasurer's & Comptroller's Papers, Journal "A", (Public Accounts) 1775-1776 (Durham: pub. by author, 1989), part I, pp. 101-104.
Thomas owned his own Plantation along the West side of Anson Co East of Highway NC 145 near Cairo where he and Sarah are beieved Buried in unmarked graves.


Back Creek MM, Randolph Co, NC. Men's Minutes
Monthly Meeting 27 of 1st Month, 1816.
New Garden Quarterly Meeting order the following friends living in the area to be received into membership (included) Thomas Ratliff and his wife Sarah. Children Thomas, Polly & Juliemma.

Birth	Abt 1756	Talbot County, Maryland
Marriage	6 Apr 1782	Anson County, North Carolina - Sarah Diggs
Death	Abt 1830	Anson County, North Carolina

Spouse	Sarah Diggs (1759 - 1827)
Child	Thomas Ratliff (1788 - 1860)

Father	William Ratcliff ( - )
Mother	Eleanor Burk (1722 - 1758)