| Thomas, Andrew Jackson 216160 |
| Birth: 05/10/1846 Death: 06/16/1934 Marriage: |
| Cemetery: Little Vine (NORTHWEST) |
| Record Source: The Paris News, Texas Death Certificate |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025) |
| Notes Memorial written by Talitha Bunch: "I will try, in my weak way, to write a little sketch of my father's death. O, it is so sad we have no father now. A. J. Thomas was born and reared in Tennessee. He was married to Miss [Elizabeth] Prudence Stalling about 1868. To their union were born five children, four girls and one boy, all are living. Father professed a hope in Christ in early days and joined the Primitive Baptist Church in which he lived strong in the faith until the end. I heard him say during his sickness, 'I hope everybody that has anything against me will forgive me of all my wrongs. I don't want to die and anybody have anything against me. I hold nothing against anybody. I want to love everybody and want everybody to love me.' He was confined to his bed about twenty-one months; his suffering was great, but he never complained. Was always passive and cheerful till the good Lord saw fit to call him home the sixteenth of June nineteen hundred and thirty-four. Only two of the girls were present at his death; but we other two got there in a short time after he died. He was laid to rest in Little Vine cemetery in Lamar County, June 17, 1934 to await the resurrection morning. He was eight-eight years, one month and six days old. Brethren Morgan and Carter and Trumpet readers, please pray for us in this sad hour." THE PARIS MORNING NEWS, Sunday, June 17, 1934: "The funeral of A. J. Thomas, 88, years old, who died about 12:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at his home, Sumner, Route 3, will be held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock at Little Vine church near Sumner and burial will be at the cemetery there, the services to be conducted by the Rev. J. W. Milligan of Unity, Baptist minister. Mr. Thomas was one of the oldest residents of that section of the county. He had been in ill health about two years. His survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Betty Thomas Lee, Sumner; Mrs. Lloyd Oats, Sherman; Mrs. J. O. Nix, Shamrock and Mrs. S. D. Bunch, Floydada, beside a son, W. E. Thomas, living in Colorado. He also leaves 15 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren. His wife died in 1909." Information from Texas Death Certificate: Also in the burial records of J. W. Milligan, Pastor of Chicota Baptist Church. Andrew Jackson Thomas received a pension #31198 from the State of Texas for his service in the Confederate Army. On the same stone with wife, Elizabeth Prudence Thomas. |
| War Notes Rank Civil War: CSA Received CSA pension |