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Elizabeth COTHER

1776-1853
Born: Cecil, Maryland, United States
Died: Pickens, Alabama, United States

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  • Story: George Thomas -- Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pickens County, Alabama

    <span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium"><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: center" align="center"><span style="font-family: arial">George Thomas</span></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: center" align="center"><span style="font-family: arial">Richland County, NC &ndash; Wythe County, VA, Logan County, KY &ndash;</span></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: center" align="center"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>&nbsp;</span>Montgomery County, TN &ndash; Pickens County, AL</span></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: center" align="center"><span style="font-family: arial">&copy; Judith Voran 2005 All rights reserved</span></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Family sources and county histories of Pickens County link George Thomas, son of William Cram BellyThomas of Richmond County, NC as the father of Tristram S. Thomas.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>There are no photocopies of original Bible records available, although one family member sent me transcribed copies of what are supposed to be Bible records of John R. Cole who married the daughter of George and Elizabeth Thomas.</font></span><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"></font></span></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">The following records are those transcribed from the Cole Family Bible<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[1]&nbsp;</span></span>:</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">George Thomas was born 1774 Nov. 15<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;Died 1850 May 14. Age 75 yrs 5 [sic.] mos. 29 da</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Lived in or near Tuscaloosa &amp; Carrollton, Ala.</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">m. 8/4/1796 Elizabeth Cother</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">1796 March 5 &ndash; 1853 Jan 26</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Elizabeth Cother was born March 5, 1776 died Jan. 26, 1853.</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">William Thomas (1800 &ndash; 1850) wife Delilah Nicholas</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Tristram S. Thomas (1797 &ndash; 1843) wife Malinda Moore</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">(Mrs Carruth has the dates and the wive&#39;s names transposed.)</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Elizabeth Thomas<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>b. 1810 Nov 11 m. Nov 16 1826 [to] John Russell Cole 1800, Dec. 1<sup>st</sup>&nbsp;died 1859 June 27<sup>th</sup></span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">The record goes on to name the fifteen children of John Russell Cole and Elizabeth [Thomas] Cole.</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">The following Bible records appear to be those of the Francis Dumas Smith &ndash; Mary Ann Cole Smith&#39;s family.<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[2]&nbsp;</span></span>Francis and Mary Ann Smith were living in the same household as Elizabeth Thomas at the time of the 1850 census.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Mary Ann [Cole] Smith would have been the granddaughter of Elizabeth Thomas.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>John Russell Cole and Elizabeth [Thomas] Cole, father-in-law of Francis Dumas Smith and parents of Mary [Cole] Smith were living nearby.<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[3]&nbsp;</span></span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Francis D. Smith was Clerk of the Ebenezer Baptist Church from about 1846 to 1851.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>This, of course, was the same church in which the activities of George, Tristram, and Benj. C. Thomas are all recorded.<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[4]</span></span></span></font><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal"></span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Born and died</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">John Russel Cole Sr. Born Dec. 1, 1800 Died June 27<sup>th</sup>, 1859.</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Elizabeth Thomas Cole wife, was Born Nov. 11, 1810 Died Nov. 17, 1862 (Handwritten notation: Walnut Grove Cemetery,&quot;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Fifteen children are named.<span>&nbsp;</span></span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Martha Cole<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Born April 2, 1829&le; is the second child listed. After the last Cole child is the notation &quot;Benjamin Cother the son of Jessie Cother and Elizabeth Cother his wife,</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">son was born the 11<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;of December, 1813 (very dim)&quot;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Married (Father &amp; Mother)</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">John Russell Cole and Elizabeth Thomas were married Nov. 16, 1826.</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Under children the marriage of Ben Cother and Martha Cole were married Jan. 26, 1843.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>(This must be the Benjamin Cother who asked for a letter of dismission from the Ebenezer Church in 1848.<span>&nbsp;</span></span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">He and Martha may have moved from the county at that time.)</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">George Thomas was born Nov. 15<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;1774 Died May 14, 1850</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Elizabeth Thomas was born March 5, 1776 died Jan. 26, 1853</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">William Thomas The son of George and Elizabeth Thomas was born Katy the 12<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;day 1797.</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Tristram S. Thomas son of George and Elizabeth Thomas was born September the 28<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;day 1800</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Elizabeth Thomas daughter of George &amp; Elizabeth Thomas was born November the 11<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;day 1810</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">William Thomas died July the 28<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;1843 His age was 46 yrs.</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">T(restart) S Thomas the son of George and Elisabeth Thomas died 17<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;of July his age 55 years 9 months 19 days.</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">George Thomas made a deed of gift of a female slave named Hannah, about nine years old, to his daughter Elizabeth on 27<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;of June 1827.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Deed was delivered to John R. Cole.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>This proves that John R. Cole was the husband of Elizabeth Thomas Cole, daughter of George Thomas.<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[5]&nbsp;</span></span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>It appears that John and Elizabeth Cole and George and Elizabeth Thomas were living in Tuscaloosa County in 1827.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>By 1830 George Thomas was in Jefferson County.</span></font><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">According to the records of Pickens County extracted from the&nbsp;<em>West Alabamian,&nbsp;</em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">John R. Cole was the executor of the estate of George Thomas.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The paper published the announcement that he filed accounts on the final settlement of the estate of George Thomas on 10 Jan. 1855 and again on 23 Dec. 1857.<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[6]</span></span></span></font><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Both sets of Bible records list only three children for George and Elizabeth Thomas.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>This is fairly unusual in that time of large families.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>There is a three year gap between William and Tristram Thomas and a ten year gap between Tristram and Elizabeth.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The unfortunate issue with these records is that they are transcriptions and not photocopies of the original pages from the Bibles.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>However, they appear to be from two different families and therefore each record set corroborates the information of the other,</span></font><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Another source for the relationship between George Thomas and Tristram S. Thomas comes from a transcribed article from the&nbsp;<em>Pickens</em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;<em>Republican</em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">, 1854:<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[7]</span></span></span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Republican in 1854, the following is taken: --</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal"><u>&nbsp;</u></span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Judge Thomas [Tristram Shandy Thomas] is one of the earliest settlers of this county</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial">.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">He was born in Wythe, Virginia, whence he removed to Kentucky when a boy, and came from there to Pickens</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">(while a part of Tuscaloosa) in 1818, resided, subsequently, one year in the State of Tennessee, and has spent most of his life in Pickens.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>His father, the late George Thomas, removed to this county</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">with his family, many years ago, but sometime later than his son, the old gentleman and lady, the mother of Judge Thomas, having both deceased within the past two or three years.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>He was an excellent citizen, an honest man, a good patriot and an orthodox Whig of the old revolutionary stripe.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>(The full text of the article is copied under the section for T. S. Thomas below.)</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial">Land Records in Kentucky and Tennessee</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Checking land and court records in Tennessee, land transactions are recorded for George Thomas in Montgomery<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[8]&nbsp;</span></span>and Robertson counties.</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; color: black; font-weight: normal">&quot;A Deed of Conveyance Stephen Thomas, John Thomas, Nathan Tho&quot;as, George Thomas and Zacariah Ratliff and Elizabeth Ratliff to William Thomas was proven in open court by the Oath</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; color: black; font-weight: normal">Samuel C. Hawkins&quot;<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>This is the deed whereby the sons and daughter of William &quot;Ram Billy&quot; Thomas of Richmond County, NC convey to their brother William Thomas their interest in land left</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; color: black; font-weight: normal">by William Cram BellyThomas to his children.<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[9]&nbsp;</span></span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>This deed of conveyance proves the parents of George Thomas.</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">In Kentucky there is a land grant in Warren County for George Thomas<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[10]&nbsp;</span></span>and deeds in Logan County. Montgomery and Robertson counties in Tennessee are counties adjacent to Christian and Logan counties in Kentucky. George Thomas held land in the area along Walker&#39;s line which was disputed by Kentucky and Tennessee, each claiming it for their own state land. (George Thomas, 5/12/1814 purchased 200 acre tract of land from Joshua and Sarah Norris on&nbsp;<em>Drake&#39;s Creek; adjacent<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>and along</em></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;state line.)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial">&nbsp;</span><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal"><span>[11]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">Given this description it appears that the land of George Thomas was in the southeast corner of the county line between Logan County, KY and the southwest corner of Warren County, Kentucky as the county lines existed before Simpson County, Kentucky was created from the counties of Allen, Warren and Logan.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>This would possibly put him in the area south and east of Franklin, Kentucky.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></span></font><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; font-weight: bold"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal"></span></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal">&nbsp;</span></font></p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial; font-weight: normal"></span></font><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial">Since Pickens County is a &quot;burned county&quot; and no probate or deed records remain from that time, the newspaper and transcribed Bible evidence is the strongest available to prove the relationship between George and Tristram Shandy Thomas.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>There is also a piece of evidence in the minutes of the Ebenezer Baptist Church.</span></font></p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial">&nbsp;&nbsp;I extracted portions from the microfilm of the original Minutes Book of the Ebenezer Baptist Church that referred to anyone with the surname Thomas.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>In the June 22 minutes for the year 1851, there is a statement:<strong>&nbsp;&quot;&nbsp;</strong>Sabbath Day. A large congregation Elder J. H. Taylor preached Bro. George Thomas Funeral and T. S. Thomas followed him in preaching Service closed<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>F. D. Smith<strong>&nbsp;(</strong>Church Clerk)&quot;<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[12]</span></span></span></font><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial">However, there is a discrepancy there.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>George Thomas died in 1850 according to the Cole family Bible and the 1850 Mortality schedule of the U.S. Census.<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[13]&nbsp;</span></span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>In the Federal census taken in September 1850, Elizabeth Thomas is shown age 63 years as living as head of a household with Francis and Mary Smith &ndash; granddaughter and granddaughter&#39;s husband<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>&ndash; and George Thomas is not listed.<span style="vertical-align: super"><span>&nbsp;[14]&nbsp;</span></span>Did T. S. Thomas preach at the funeral of his father or of another George Thomas?<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Or was the service more like a memorial service a year later and Tristram did preach at the funeral/memorial of his father George?</span></font></p><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: -49.5pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: times; text-align: justify"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial">&nbsp;</span></font></p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial"></span></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial">Elizabeth Thomas, wife of George Thomas, is listed in family records as Elizabeth Cother (Coulter, Couther, Colther) the daughter of William Coulter of Richmond Co. North Carolina who married George Thomas as his second wife about 1797.<span>&nbsp;</span>Records of the Cother family in Pickens County, Alabama and Delta County, Texas outlined below under the section of the Cother family connection support this statement.</span></font><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman'"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">&nbsp;</font></p></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font><hr><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[1]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial">Letter from Mrs. Margaret Scruggs Carruth, 3715 Turtle Creek Blvd., Dallas 19, Texas. Original sent to Pauline Jones Gandrud, 311 Caplewood Terrace, Tuscaloosa, Alabama., 22/June/1956.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Original letter now in the COLE file in the Gandrud records collection at Hooley Special Collections Library, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Photocopy of the original letter made by Judith Voran, July, 2002; held by Voran, HC1 Box 245, Strawberry, AZ 85544.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The Bible records are on a separate page.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Mrs. Carruth made an error in transcribing the information on the wives of William Thomas and Tristram Thomas.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Mrs. Gandrud corrects that in an annotation on the margin of the paper.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Mrs. Gandrud&#39;s correction is corroborated by the information for William Thomas found in his will (Jefferson County, Alabama Orphan&#39;s Court Book 1837-1844, , p. 438.) and by the information for Tristram and Delila Thomas found in the 1850 Pickens County census record (1850 U. S. Census, Pickens County, Alabama, page 4 , dwelling 35, family 35.</span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[2]&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family: arial">Bible records of the Francis D. Smith, John Russell Cole, and George Thomas families. Transcribed from the original by an unnamed person.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>&quot;Sent to me by Mrs. Mildred Gill, 7123 Fisher Rd., Dallas, Texas, Aug 13, 1956.&le;<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>The recipient of the records is not known.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Photocopy of the original typescript received by Judith Voran from Don Cother, Lamar County Texas, in 1999 and held by Voran HC 1 Box 245, Strawberry, AZ 85544.<span>&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[3]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial">John R. Cole household, Southern District, page 106, dwelling 601, household 695, line 57, 1850 U. S. Census, Pickens County, Alabama, population schedule, Ancestry Census Images Online &lt;www.ancestry.com&gt;Information download,<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>July 7, 2002.</span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[4]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial">Ebenezer Baptist Church Minute Book, Pickens County, Alabama.</span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[5]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial">George Thomas to Elizabeth Cole. deed of gift, June 27, 1827, Tuscaloosa County, Deed Book G, page. 632.</span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[6]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial"><em>West Alabamian,&nbsp;</em>10 January. 1855, n.p. and 23 December, 1857. Photocopy of records extracted<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>and published by Marilyn Davis Barefield and Carr Byron Barefield.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><em>Pickens County Alabama, 1841 &ndash; 1861</em>, Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, c1984.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Copy of the book held at Hooley Special Collections Library, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.</span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[7]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial"><em>Pickens Republican,&nbsp;</em>1854, p. 52. Montgomery, Alabama, Alabama State Archives. This is a photocopy of the transcribed article held by the Alabama State Archives and sent to Judith Voran, 1978; held by Voran HC1 Box 245, Strawberry, AZ 85544.</span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[8]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial">Montgomery County, Tennessee, Minutes of the County Court, Book 5, p. 217, and 219, microfilm no.&nbsp;<span style="color: black">321064, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.<span>&nbsp;</span></span></span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[9]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial">Richmond County, North Carolina, Will Book I, p. 80.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Photocopy made at the North Carolina State Library and Archives, July, 2002 by Judith Voran and held by Voran, HC 1 Box 245, Strawberry, Arizona 85544.</span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[10]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial">George Thomas, 200 acres, Book 17, p. 465, 24/5/1807 in &quot;Grants South of Green River,&quot; Willard Rouse Jillson,&nbsp;<em>The Kentucky Land Grants: a Systematic Index to All of the Land Grants Recorded in the State Land Office at Frankfort, Kentucky 1782 &ndash; 1924,&nbsp;</em>Louisville, Kentucky, The Standard Printing Company, 1925, p. 423</span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[11]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial">.Logan County, Kentucky, Clerk of the County Court, Book D, p. 204, microfilm no.&nbsp;<span style="color: black">364583, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.</span></span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[12]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial">Ebenezer Baptist Church Minute Book, Pickens County, Alabama..</span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[13]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial">George Thomas.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Listed in&nbsp;<em>Alabama Mortality Schedule: 1850; Seventh Census of the United States.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Original Returns of the Assistant Marshalls, Third Series.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Persons Who Died During the Year Ending June 30, 1850</em>.<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Compiled by Marilyn Davis Hahn. P. 212.</span></font></p></div><div><p style="margin-: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-: 0in; font-size: 10pt; font-family: times"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align: super"><span style="font-family: arial"><span>[14]&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial">Elizabeth Thomas household, 1850 U. S. Census, Pickens County, Alabama, population schedule, Carrollton township, page 106 , dwelling 598, family 691 and 692, microfilm no 442864. .Family History Library [FHL], Salt Lake City, Utah</span></font></p></div></div></span>

 
 
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