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- He went to school at New Hope Academy. He taught school a few years. Hewent to Roaring River, N.C. to work in a store owned by Thomas Church, uncle of Nora Robinette, who lived on Stoney Fork Creek at Hendrix in Wilkes County, N.C. Miss Robinette was visiting her uncle when she met Thomas Eller. Their courtship was mostly by letter. They courted about two years before he got to go see her regularity. They were married 2 October 1902, at a home wedding performed by the Reverend Bradshaw of North Wilkesboro, N.C. Tom and Nora moved to a farm near New Hope Church in 1917.
Thomas made a profession of faith, joined he church and was baptized at Beaver Creek. Later he was elected Deacon of New Hope Baptist Church and served as Clerk of the Church for several years.
He was a farmer and raised cattle and hogs. He sold milk to the dairy when it was hauled to North Wilkesboro, N.C.
In 1930, his health became bad. He was in the Baptist Hospital at Winston-Salem and also a patient at Davis Hospital in Statesville, N.C. He was confined to his bed most of the time afterwards until his death on December 4, 1936. He was buried in the New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery in the back where he had requested to be buried. [1]
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