Charles J. Thomas was a member of an orchestra with his father by the age of nine, playing at the Theatre Royal.

During the 1850s, Thomas traveled with an Italian opera company and some of his compositions were played at London theatres.

He not only lead the Tabernacle Choir for a time but was also the first orchestral director at the Salt Lake Theatre.

He was the first director to lead the choir in the current Salt Lake Tabernacle building.

He also taught music lessons in Salt Lake City, where he had among other students Heber J.

She was a suffragist invited by the speaker of the Utah House to take the speaker's chair during the roll call in connection with Utah's ratification of the 19th Amendment (appropriately in 1919) to the United States Constitution granting women the right to vote.

[citation needed] Her son Joseph Knowles (J.K.) Piercey (Charles Thomas's grandson) was chief of the Salt Lake City fire department from 1943 to 1959 and later served as Salt Lake City public safety commissioner until his death in April 1961.

"[citation needed] A newspaper article on the death of Anna Thomas noted that she was survived by two brothers and a sister and nine grandchildren.