Husband: W. Newton THOMAS
Birthdate: December 1829
Birthplace: unknown
Death date: October 1878
Place of death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Father: unknown
Mother: unknown

Marriage date: 1855
Marriage place: unknown

Wife: Almarinda STEWART
Birthdate: April 1838
Birthplace: Walker County, GA
Death date: December 1915
Place of death: unknown
Burial: unknown
Father: William Stewart
Mother: Nancy a.k.a. Muddy (maiden name unknown)

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Monteray Thomas
a.k.a. Monte Rae
Sex: F
Birthdate: December 1856
Birthplace: GA
Death date: July 1923
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Spouse's name: Matison Atkins

Child No. 2: Macerona Thomas
Sex: M
Birthdate: 1859
Birthplace: GA
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Child No. 3: Viola Thomas
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1863
Birthplace: GA
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Child No. 4: Annie Thomas
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1864
Birthplace: GA
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Child No. 5: Elizabeth Thomas
a.k.a. Nannie
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1866
Birthplace: GA
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Child No. 6: Minnie Thomas
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1870
Birthplace: GA
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Documentation:
* Most of the dates are directly from U.S. Census documents online, which are supported by listings in the family Bible. Some dates are off by a year or so.
* The names of all listed here were commonly known, as siblings and other relatives visited and communicated regularly during their lifetimes.
* With the exception of my great-grandmother, Monteray Thomas, who married Matison Atkins, I have little information about the children of Almarinda W. Newton Thomas. I am very eager to learn the maiden name of Almarinda's mother Nancy Stewart, a.k.a. Muddy.
* According to Census records, Nancy Stewart was born in South Carolina, as were her parents. Although Nancy Stewart is listed as "white" in all Census records, I have a strong belief she was either Cherokee or Creek, making her Native American. I base this on my own grandmother's statements about being "one-sixteenth Cherokee," but she would never discuss this further. (Since Nancy was her grandmother, the math works out accurately.)
* According to a distant cousin, Nancy Stewart's husband, William Stewart, came to America from Scotland, supposedly to look for gold; he was killled in l864 in Walker County, although I have no other information on him, his life or his death. I do know the family spent most of its years in Walker County, Georgia, around Frick's Gap, according to the Census. Lookout Mountain and Chattanooga, Tennessee, were prominent in the family's lives, as well, which my 82-year-old mother discusses with us.