SOME THOMAS DESCENDANTS

 Ezekiel Thomas II, married Nancy Jane Carothers about 1798 and they had nine children:

1. Jeremiah Watts Thomas, born 2 October 1799, in Georgia

     2. William Carothers Thomas, born about 1801 in Georgia

     3.  Susan Thomas, born about 1804 in Mississippi, married James Keys

     4. Jesse Gilbert Thomas, born 11 June 1807, in Hickman County, Tennessee

      5. Pleasant Green Thomas, born about 1809 in Tennessee, married Mary Elizabeth Bourland

      6. Jane Thomas, born about 1811 in Tennessee

      7. Sallie Thomas, born about 1813 in Tennessee

      8. Dollie Ann Thomas, born about 1815 in Tennessee

      9. John B.V. Thomas, born about 1820 in Tennessee

Ezekiel and Nancy Jane Thomas are buried in the Keyes Cemetery in Itawamba County, Mississippi.

Jeremiah Watts Thomas was born 2 October 1799, in Georgia, to Ezekiel and Nancy Jane Thomas. He married 20 July 1839, in Alabama, Winnifred Dublin, daughter of Jacob and Susannah Dublin. Winnifred was born 12 November 1811. Jeremiah and Winnifred joined the Dove Baptist Church (now First Baptist Church) in Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas, by letter in March 1845. Jeremiah was ordained a deacon on October 1845, in Dove Baptist Church. They were dismissed by letter on October 9, 1854. Jeremiah was a farmer and moved to String Prairie between Caldwell and Lexington, Texas. Jeremiah and Winnifred had at least eleven children:

1.     William Gilbert Thomas, born 22 October 1831, died 20 November 1831

2.     Mary Ann Thomas, born 11 November 1832, died 4 June 1834

3.     Dewitt C. Thomas, born about 1835 in Alabama, married Miss. J.L. Hewlett, 10 September 1871

4.     Susan Jane Thomas, born 11 September 1837, in Alabama

5.     Jessie Ezekiel Thomas, born 25 October 1839, in Mississippi

6.     Jeremiah Watts Thomas, Jr., born 22 January 1841 in Mississippi, died 18 January 1863, in Grenada Mississippi

7.     Mary Jane Thomas, born 10 April 1843, died 20 April 1843, buried Keys Cemetery, Itawamba County, Mississippi

8.     Nancy Emily Thomas, born about 1847 in Burleson County, Texas, married W.H. Griffin 21 November 1867

9.     Andrew Vardeman Thomas, born 29 December 1850, in Burleson County, Texas.

10.  Sarah Elizabeth “Betsy” Thomas, born 25 July 1851, in Burleson County, Texas, died 7 October 1863, buried in Prospect Cemetery which is now in Lee County, Texas.

11. Catherine Marie Thomas, born 24 September 1852, in Burleson County, Texas

12. James Stanley Thomas, born 21 February 1854, in Burleson County, Texas, died 28 October 1854, buried in Prospect Cemetery

Winnifred died 29 October 1863, and Jeremiah died 7 March 1864. They are buried on Prospect Cemetery on String Prairie in Lee County, Texas.     String Prairie, Texas, is between the East and Middle Yegua Creeks in what has been Lee County, Texas, since 1874.

William Carothers Thomas was born about 1801, probably in Franklin County, Georgia. He is a son of Ezekiel and Nancy Jane Thomas. William married Susan E. about 1830 in Georgia. Susan was born about 1815 in Georgia. Susan, in June 1844, and William, on 21 December 1844, joined Dove Baptist Church in Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas, by letter. William was ordained a deacon in January 1852 in Dove Baptist Church. William and Susan were dismissed by letter on October 1854. They had at least seven children:

1.     Mary Adeline Thomas, born about 1832 in Georgia, joined Dove Baptist Church by baptism in October 1847, married 22 September 1853, Andrew G. Mayes in Burleson County, Texas.

2.     James M. Thomas, born July 1833 in Georgia, married 8 December 1879, Miss. Sarah Elizabeth Flanagan in Burleson County, Texas.

3.     Sarah Thomas, born about 1835 in Georgia

4.     Josephine Thomas, born about 1837 in Alabama

5.     Richard Thomas, born about 1841 in Texas

6.     Ann Thomas, born about 1846 in Burleson County, Texas

7.     Marthey Thomas, born about 1849 in Burleson County, Texas

  William C. Thomas was a farmer and served in Wauls Texas Legion, CSA.

Jesse Gilbert Thomas was born 11 June 1807, in Hickman County, Tennessee, a son of Ezekiel and Nancy Jane Thomas. Jesse married Eliza Jane Michaux, 4 April 1833, in Lawrence County, Alabama. Eliza Jane (Michaux) Thomas was born about 1810 in Virginia. They had at least four children:

1.     Eliza Jane Thomas, born about 1833 in Alabama

2.     Frank Thomas, born about 1835 in Alabama

3.     James B. Thomas, born about 1838 in Alabama

4.     Emily Thomas, born about 1842 in Texas

Jesse and Eliza Thomas joined Dove Baptist Church in Caldwell, Burleson County, Texas, by letter on 4 May 1843. Jesse served on the first Board of Trustees of Baylor University at Independence, Washington County, Texas, in 1845. He was at Providence Baptist Church in Burleson County, Texas, in 1845. Jesse was Secretary of the Baptist State Convention in 1848 when it met on Anderson, Grimes County, Texas. Jesse was licensed to preach in September 1852 and ordained into the ministry on 16 July 1853, both in Dove Baptist Church. Mrs. Eliza Thomas died 8 July 1854, in Burleson County, Texas. Jesse was the pastor of Dove Baptist Church from 1854 through 1857. Jesse married Mrs. Sarah Ann (Hitchcock) Eldridge in 1857. Sarah was born 18 July 1821, in Georgia, a daughter of James and Elizabeth (Davis) Hitchcock and the widow  of Arthur Eldridge. She had a son Thomas Eldridge, born  about 1840. 

Jesse  was pastor of Dove Baptist Church again from August 1864 through July 1865. From October 1863 through August 1864, he served as a missionary to the men in the Confederate Army. He also served on several mission fields of Texas.  J.G. Thomas was shown in 1850, 1860, and 1870 census as a Missionary Baptist Clergyman. Reverend Jesse Gilbert Thomas died 11 September 1875, in Burleson County, Texas.

Pleasant Green Thomas was a son of Ezekiel and Nancy Jane Thomas. He was born 20 March 1809, in Hickman County, Tennessee. He married Mary Elizabeth Bourland 19 December 1839, in Itawamba County, Mississippi. Mary was born 15 November 1821, a daughter of James Spears Bourland and Mary Hudspeth, and died 16 Sept 1848, buried in Bourland Cemetery, Itawamba County, Mississippi. Children of Pleasant Green Thomas and Mary Bourland are:

1.     Mary Jane Thomas, born 1 November 1840, in Itawamba County, Mississippi; married Rial Barnett 8 January 1861, in Itawamba County, Mississippi;

died 14 January 1926, in Miles, Runnels County, Texas.

2.     Martha Susan Thomas, born about 1843 in Itawamba County, Mississippi; married 1^st Arthur Benjamin Bullard 22 December 1863, in Itawamba County, Mississippi; married 2^nd Squire Boone about 1867.

3.     James Ezekiel Thomas, born about 1845 in Itawamba County, Mississippi; married W.A. Bourland 27 October 1885, in Itawamba County, Mississippi.

4.     William Green Thomas, born March 1847 in Itawamba County, Mississippi; married Sarah Jane Kimbrough 8 May 1872, in Carroll County, Mississippi.

Pleasant Green Thomas died 23 May 1892, and is buried in College Mound Cemetery, Kaufman County, Texas.

James M. Thomas, was born in July 1833 in Georgia, a son of William Carothers Thomas. James married Miss. Sarah Elizabeth Flanagan 8 December 1870, in Burleson County, Texas. Sarah was born 30 January 1838, in Georgia, a daughter of Alexander Jackson Flanagan and Abigail Briton Tippen.  James M. Thomas was a sergeant in Company A, Wauls Texas Legion, CSA. James and Sarah had at least three children:

1.     Susan Thomas, born about 1872

2.     William Thomas, born October 1873 in Burleson County, Texas

3.     Lizzie Thomas, born February 1875

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Flanagan Thomas died 1 April 1875, and James M. Thomas died in December 1919. They are buried in Providence Cemetery in Burleson County, Texas.

John Curtis Thomas was born 15 December 1844, in Georgia. He married Susan Elizabeth Coleman 13 March 1873, in Burleson County, Texas. She was born in March 1853, in Mississippi, a daughter of William J. Coleman. John and Susan had at least eleven children all born in Burleson County, Texas:

1.     Charles W. Thomas, born about 1874

2.     John Thomas, born about 1875

3.     Nancy E. Thomas, born about 1877

4.     Mary Thomas, born in March 1879

5.     Tom Thomas, born in January 1881

6.     Early Thomas, son, born February 1883

7.     Ernest Thomas, son, born February 1883

8.     Maude Thomas, born in March 1887

9.     Henry Thomas, born in December 1888

10. Bertha Thomas, born in February 1892

11. Bessie Thomas, born in July 1896

James Curtis Thomas died 27 August 1907, and was buried in Providence Cemetery, Burleson County, Texas.

1850 Census of Albermarle County, Virginia    Sheet No: 281B        Reel No: M432-932    

Page No:  561   Lines 18 thru 31   Dwelling No: 1818  Family No: 1818   

Thomas, Reubin      22        M                     Birthplace:  Virginia

Thomas, Martha       20        F                            “                “

Thomas, James       3          M                              “              “

Thomas, Reubin      1          M                              “              “

 Tooley, Robert         25        M                              “              “

Tooley, Ann              28        F                                “ “

Carter, Richard         30      M                                  “           “

Carter, Rebecca       20       F                                  “           “

Carter, Martha              1       F                                  “           “

Bailey, Mary              40      F                                   “           “

Thomas, Mary             83      F                                 “           “

Thomas, Jane          30        F                                  “           “

Thomas, William        17       M                               “           “

James Reuben Thomas, Sr., was born 23 April 1823, in Albermarle County, Virginia, a son of Reuben and Martha Thomas. He married Martha Jane Smith 17 February 1847, in Albermarle County, Virginia. Martha was born 26 October 1826, in Virginia. James and Martha Thomas had at least six children:

1.     James Reuben Thomas, Jr., born 10 October 1847, in Albermarle County, Virginia

2.     Elonza D. “Dock” Thomas, born 27 July 1850, in Albermarle County, Virginia

3.     Narcissa Ann Thomas, born 1853 in Albermarle County, Virginia

4.     William Francis “Bill” Thomas, born 7 April 1855, in Texas

5.     Preston H. “Press” Thomas, born 16 October 1858, in Burleson County, Texas

6.     Sarah Jane Thomas, born 11 June 1864, in Burleson County, Texas

James R. Thomas fought in the Confederate Army with Hoods Texas Brigade.  Mrs. Martha Thomas died 28 July 1876, and James Reuben Thomas, Sr. died 10 October 1905. They are buried in the Thomas Cemetery in Burleson County, Texas.

Narcissa Ann Thomas, a daughter of Reuben and Martha Thomas, was born in 1853 in Albermarle County, Virginia. She married Mr. James W. Tooley in Albermarle County, Virginia prior to the 1850 census. James W. Tooley was born 24 November 1824, in Virginia. They had a son, Washington “Wash” Tooley who is buried in the Mary Moore Cemetery in Burleson County, Texas. James died 17 January 1886, and Narcissa died in 1898. They are buried in the Mary Moore Cemetery, a few miles from the Thomas Cemetery.

William Francis Thomas, a son of Reuben and Martha Thomas, was born 4 December 1833, in Albermarle County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth J, “Eliza” Smith 24 November 1870, in Burleson County, Texas. Eliza was born 10 May 1841, in South Carolina. They had at least five children:

1.     Ada Thomas, born 23 July 1871, died 28 July 1881, buried in Mary Moore Cemetery.

2.     Infant son Thomas, born 23 July 1871, died 24 July 1871, buried in Mary Moore Cemetery.

3.     John Thomas born about 1872

4.     Clarence W. Thomas, born in October 1875

5.     Emma Irene Thomas, born 2 January 1877, died 26 June 1881, buried in Mary Moore Cemetery

6.     Melvin Thomas, born about 1878.

Eliza J. Thomas, died 7 January 1895, and William F. Thomas, died 5 November 1912. They are buried in Mary Moore Cemetery in Burleson County, Texas with their three young children.