Georgia Family Group Sheet for the W. Newton Thomas Family *********************************************** Copyright Ginger Blackstone. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml *********************************************** Submitted by: Ginger Blackstone Email address: 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, a.k.a., Monte Rae, Thomas Sex: F Birthdate: December 1856 Birthplace: GA Death date: July 1923 Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Matison Atkins Child No. 2: Macerona Thomas Sex: M Birthdate: 1859 Birthplace: GA Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 3: Viola Thomas Sex: F Birthdate: 1863 Birthplace: GA Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 4: Annie Thomas Sex: F Birthdate: 1864 Birthplace: GA Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 5: Elizabeth, a.k.a., Nannie, Thomas Sex: F Birthdate: 1866 Birthplace: GA Death date: Place of death: Marriage date: Burial: Marriage place: Spouse's name: Child No. 6: Minnie Thomas Sex: F Birthdate: 1870 Birthplace: GA Death date: Place of death: Burial: Marriage date: Marriage place: Spouse's name: 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.