Husband: Columbus "Lum" THOMAS
Birthdate: 1847
Birthplace: Possibly McNairy Co., TN
Death date: after 1886
Place of death: Possibly Prentiss Co., MS
Father: Miles THOMAS
Mother: Martha Caroline unknown

Marriage date: Sept. 26, 1868
Marriage place: Old Tishomingo Co., MS

Wife: Amanda Jane BANKS
Birthdate: ca 1852
Birthplace: Old Tishomingo Co., MS
Death date: after 1920
Place of death:
Father: William W. BANKS
Mother: Elizabeth NARRIMORE

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Roxanna THOMAS
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1869
Birthplace: Old Tishomingo Co., MS
Death date: before 1880
Place of death:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names:

Child No. 2: William Lonzo THOMAS
Sex: M
Birthdate: Oct. 1875
Birthplace: Alcorn or Prentiss Co., MS
Death date:
Place of death: Fayette Co., TN
Marriage date:
Marriage place: Alcorn Co., MS
Spouses' names: Josephine MARKLE

Child No. 3: Minnie THOMAS
Sex: F
Birthdate: 1878
Birthplace: Prentiss Co., MS
Death date:
Place of death:
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Lyman McCOY

Child No. 4: Fanny Nettie THOMAS
Sex: F
Birthdate: Oct. 28, 1882
Birthplace: Prentiss Co., MS
Death date: Sept. 8, 1956
Place of death: Ramer, McNairy Co., TN
Marriage date: Dec. 8, 1896
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: Albert DILDY

Child No. 5: Eddie Rossette THOMAS
Sex: F
Birthdate: June 24, 1886
Birthplace: MS
Death date: March 30, 1937
Place of death: Alcorn Co., MS
Marriage date:
Marriage place:
Spouses' names: William Herman NULL
 
 
Documentation:
* 1850 Census McNairy Co., TN Dist. 10 household 1773
THOMAS Miles age 28 laborer birthplace unknown
Caroline 27 birthplace unknown
Jackson 5 born TN
COLUMBUS 3 born TN
Ann 1 born TN
* 1860 Tishomingo Co., MS census
Boneyard post office household 635
THOMAS Miles 40 farmer TN
Martha C. 38 TN
Columbus 11 TN
Lauraette 7 TN
James G. 5 TN
Cordelia 2 MS
* 1870 Alcorn Co., MS census Kossuth post office household 29
THOMAS Lum 22 farmer born MS?
Amanda 19 born MS
Rexana 1 MS
* 1870 Alcorn Co., MS census
Kossuth post office household 29
THOMAS, Lum age 22 farmer born MS?
Amanda 19 MS
Rexana 1 MS
* 1880 Prentiss Co., MS Dist. 1
THOMAS C. 34 farmer born TN
A.J. 25 wife born MS keeping house
Rosea 7 daughter born MS
W.L. 4 son born MS
Minnie 2 born MS
RUCE A.M.R. female 36 boarder born VA
Justin A. female 70 born AL
* Don't find Columbus Thomas after the 1880 census.
Notes For Amanda:
* From Jane Clayton at: JRnJANE@msn.com in 2003:
"I have contacted some of the descendents of Amanda Banks, but I don't know too many. Even though my family was born and raised in Alcorn County, they left for Texas when I was a baby and I was raised there. Most of the older family members have died. My mother and elderly aunt are all that are still living. My mother was only 7 when Elizabeth Voyles died. She still remembers her. She said Elizabeth had one black dress with white bottoms and that she was a small woman with dark hair. She always wore a bonnet and would smoke a corn cob pipe! Amanda was a larger woman with dark hair. They knew her as Amanda Voyles, guess they thought her maiden name was Voyles since her mother's was Voyles. I'm sure that my grandmother Nettie Thomas (Amanda's daughter) knew. But Nettie died in 1956."
* Book 6 1855-56 Old Tish. Co., MS Probate Court
To the Honorable County Arnold Judge of the Probate Court of the County of Tishomingo and State of Mississippi.
The petition of J.D. Latch shows to your Honor that Wm. Banks died in July 1853 leaving and surviving him his only child infant daughter Amanda Jane Banks who resides in said county. That as the child and heir at law of her said father she is entitled to an estate in cash of a small sum not exceeding fifty dollars and that she is further entitled with her mother Elizabeth since intermarried with your petitioner to a County land warrant for forty acres. Your petitioner is advised that a legal Guardian be appointed for the protection of the interest of said minor therein. That said infant resides with your petitioner and her said mother.
Your petitioner being desirous to protect and promote the Interest of his said step daughter therefore prays that Letters of Guardianship be granted to him upon the estate of said Infant according to the provisions of the Statute, and as in duty Bound he will ever pray & c.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Dec. 10th 1855.
E.W. Carmack, Clerk
J.D. Latch
Know all men by these presents that we, J.D. Latch and James Voyles, are held and firmly bound to the State of Mississippi in the penalty of two hundred dollars for payment of which will and truly to be made we bind ourselves, our heirs and executors and administrators jointly and severally, signed with our names and sealed with our seals the 10th day of December 1855.
The condition of the above obligation is such that the above ______ J.D. Latch as Guardian to Amanda Jane Banks of Tishomingo County shall faithfully account to the probate court of Tishomingo County as directed by law for the management of the property and estate of the orphan under his care and shall also deliver up the said property agreeable to the order of the said court or the directions of Law, and shall in all respects perform the duty of Guardian to the said Amanda Jane Banks according to Law thru the above obligation shall cease and be void otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of John F. Arnold, Judge & c.
J.D. Latch (seal)
James Voyles (seal)
* Book N Probate Court Old Tish. Co., MS page 180
In the matter of the guardianship of Amanda Jane Banks minor heir of William Banks, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition of J.D. Latch when it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that Said J.D. Latch is the step father of said minor and no other person having applied for said guardianship and he appearing to the court to be a proper person to _____ and have the custody and control of said minor and her estate and that she is under the age of 14 years. It is ordered that letters of guardianship be granted to the said J.D. Latch of the person and estate of the said Amanda Jane Banks upon his taking the oath prescribed by law and entering into bond in the sum of two hundred dollars with good and ample security to be justified and approved by the court.
Book N Probate Court Old Tish. Co., MS Probate Court December term 1855
It? a term of the probate court of Tishomingo County State aforesaid begun and held in the Town of Jacinto on the 2nd Monday in December 1855. It is ordered adjudged and decreed that John D. Latch be appointed special Guardian of Amanda Jane Banks a minor heir of Wm. W. Banks, deceased for the purpose of making application for and obtaining from the United States a Bounty Land Warrant for 160 acres of Land due the said minor under the Act of March the 3rd 1855 and of making sale of the same for the benefit of said minor heir. And the said John D. Latch having been Legally sworn and having entered into Bond in the sum of $200.00 with James Broil (should be Voyles) as his security for the faithful performance of his duties as such Guardian which was approved by the Court and Letters were thereupon granted to the said John D. Latch of the person and estate of said minor according to the statute in such case made and provided with full authority to perform all the legal acts of said guardianship in the premises (could be promises?).