Her parents were:
Henry Williams 1803 – 1879
Eliza Ellen Foreman 1810 – 1870
She married Isaac J Thomas in 1849
Their children were:
Mahala Emmer Thomas 1851 – 1871
CORNELIUS JAMES THOMAS 1853 – 1926
Mary Elizabeth Thomas 1856 – 1923
SARAH Henrietta Eliza Mary Jane THOMAS 1857 – 1937
NANCY Carol Catherine THOMAS 1858 – 1935 MEMORIAL #20595979
JOHN WILLIAM THOMAS 1861 – 1918 MEMORIAL #40032625
Frank Cheatham Thomas 1864 – 1929
She married H H Posey in 1886 after Isaac died.
She was 16 when she married Isaac J Thomas in 1849. Little is known about her side of the family, though they likely resided in Pike County, Alabama, or its environs. She was a homemaker, who taught her girls also how to run a home. After her husband Isaac died, in 1885, family oral tradition tells of her subsequent engagement and marriage to H.H. Posey of Pike County, Alabama. This engagement and marriage became suspect, according to this tradition, when leadership at the Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church discovered that Mr. Posey already had a living wife. When these church leaders asked Mr. Posey to go back to his wife in Pike County, he staunchly refused. Margaret's long-standing fellowship with the Primitive Baptist Church was removed as a result. The Thomas children also pleaded with Mr. Posey to return, but to no avail. Tempers flared, and Mr. Posey, according to this family story, was shot and buried in a wooded area near the Thomas land. Grandma Posey, as Margaret was then known, moved to western Butler County with her son John William and his wife Malissa (Phelps), and daughter Sarah A and her husband Avander Braden. Grandma Posey lived to a ripe old age, though her exact death date is not known.
Submitted by Andy Simmons
Henry Williams 1803 – 1879
Eliza Ellen Foreman 1810 – 1870
She married Isaac J Thomas in 1849
Their children were:
Mahala Emmer Thomas 1851 – 1871
CORNELIUS JAMES THOMAS 1853 – 1926
Mary Elizabeth Thomas 1856 – 1923
SARAH Henrietta Eliza Mary Jane THOMAS 1857 – 1937
NANCY Carol Catherine THOMAS 1858 – 1935 MEMORIAL #20595979
JOHN WILLIAM THOMAS 1861 – 1918 MEMORIAL #40032625
Frank Cheatham Thomas 1864 – 1929
She married H H Posey in 1886 after Isaac died.
She was 16 when she married Isaac J Thomas in 1849. Little is known about her side of the family, though they likely resided in Pike County, Alabama, or its environs. She was a homemaker, who taught her girls also how to run a home. After her husband Isaac died, in 1885, family oral tradition tells of her subsequent engagement and marriage to H.H. Posey of Pike County, Alabama. This engagement and marriage became suspect, according to this tradition, when leadership at the Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church discovered that Mr. Posey already had a living wife. When these church leaders asked Mr. Posey to go back to his wife in Pike County, he staunchly refused. Margaret's long-standing fellowship with the Primitive Baptist Church was removed as a result. The Thomas children also pleaded with Mr. Posey to return, but to no avail. Tempers flared, and Mr. Posey, according to this family story, was shot and buried in a wooded area near the Thomas land. Grandma Posey, as Margaret was then known, moved to western Butler County with her son John William and his wife Malissa (Phelps), and daughter Sarah A and her husband Avander Braden. Grandma Posey lived to a ripe old age, though her exact death date is not known.
Submitted by Andy Simmons
Her parents were:
Henry Williams 1803 – 1879
Eliza Ellen Foreman 1810 – 1870
She married Isaac J Thomas in 1849
Their children were:
Mahala Emmer Thomas 1851 – 1871
CORNELIUS JAMES THOMAS 1853 – 1926
Mary Elizabeth Thomas 1856 – 1923
SARAH Henrietta Eliza Mary Jane THOMAS 1857 – 1937
NANCY Carol Catherine THOMAS 1858 – 1935 MEMORIAL #20595979
JOHN WILLIAM THOMAS 1861 – 1918 MEMORIAL #40032625
Frank Cheatham Thomas 1864 – 1929
She married H H Posey in 1886 after Isaac died.
She was 16 when she married Isaac J Thomas in 1849. Little is known about her side of the family, though they likely resided in Pike County, Alabama, or its environs. She was a homemaker, who taught her girls also how to run a home. After her husband Isaac died, in 1885, family oral tradition tells of her subsequent engagement and marriage to H.H. Posey of Pike County, Alabama. This engagement and marriage became suspect, according to this tradition, when leadership at the Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church discovered that Mr. Posey already had a living wife. When these church leaders asked Mr. Posey to go back to his wife in Pike County, he staunchly refused. Margaret's long-standing fellowship with the Primitive Baptist Church was removed as a result. The Thomas children also pleaded with Mr. Posey to return, but to no avail. Tempers flared, and Mr. Posey, according to this family story, was shot and buried in a wooded area near the Thomas land. Grandma Posey, as Margaret was then known, moved to western Butler County with her son John William and his wife Malissa (Phelps), and daughter Sarah A and her husband Avander Braden. Grandma Posey lived to a ripe old age, though her exact death date is not known.
Submitted by Andy Simmons
Henry Williams 1803 – 1879
Eliza Ellen Foreman 1810 – 1870
She married Isaac J Thomas in 1849
Their children were:
Mahala Emmer Thomas 1851 – 1871
CORNELIUS JAMES THOMAS 1853 – 1926
Mary Elizabeth Thomas 1856 – 1923
SARAH Henrietta Eliza Mary Jane THOMAS 1857 – 1937
NANCY Carol Catherine THOMAS 1858 – 1935 MEMORIAL #20595979
JOHN WILLIAM THOMAS 1861 – 1918 MEMORIAL #40032625
Frank Cheatham Thomas 1864 – 1929
She married H H Posey in 1886 after Isaac died.
She was 16 when she married Isaac J Thomas in 1849. Little is known about her side of the family, though they likely resided in Pike County, Alabama, or its environs. She was a homemaker, who taught her girls also how to run a home. After her husband Isaac died, in 1885, family oral tradition tells of her subsequent engagement and marriage to H.H. Posey of Pike County, Alabama. This engagement and marriage became suspect, according to this tradition, when leadership at the Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church discovered that Mr. Posey already had a living wife. When these church leaders asked Mr. Posey to go back to his wife in Pike County, he staunchly refused. Margaret's long-standing fellowship with the Primitive Baptist Church was removed as a result. The Thomas children also pleaded with Mr. Posey to return, but to no avail. Tempers flared, and Mr. Posey, according to this family story, was shot and buried in a wooded area near the Thomas land. Grandma Posey, as Margaret was then known, moved to western Butler County with her son John William and his wife Malissa (Phelps), and daughter Sarah A and her husband Avander Braden. Grandma Posey lived to a ripe old age, though her exact death date is not known.
Submitted by Andy Simmons
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