Dempsey Thomas

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BERTHA JEAN HOGGLE PUBLISHES BOOK ON THE THOMAS FAMILY

In the early 1800's John Thomas and Dempsey Pool came with their parents, Andrew and Sarah Thomas and John and Mahulda Holloway Pool from Newberry, South Carolina to Shelby County, Alabama. This couple was married on February 11, 1820. Soon after that, this couple, along with their parents and siblings, came to Perry County, the area now know as the Mt. Herman Community, Hale County, Alabama. This couple had 13 children of which 6 of them raised large families in Hale County, whose descendants have been and still are very active in all walks of life. 4 of their children died young and 3 married and had children who left Alabama and went to Texas after the Civil War. Their sons, James and Henry Thomas served in the Civil War. James died in Atlanta, Georgia of pneumonia and was brought back to Mt. Herman Church Cemetery for burial and Henry lost an arm in Battle at Peachtree, Georgia, but lived to come back home with his family. In 1961, Mrs. Annie Lavender and Mrs. Nell Hall, great grand-daughters of John and Dempsey Thomas, inspired the author of this book to take up where they had left off and try to carry on their legacy. These two lovely ladies had traveled many miles and had done extensive research while visiting members of this family. Knowing their capabilities were getting very few at their age, they gave copies of their work to the author in the hopes that she would continue on with their heritage that they loved so much. This undertaking has taken a long time and many miles of travel to courthouses, cemeteries, and visits to relatives to compile this book. With the use of computers and help of so many wonderful people, the author has completed what she set out to accomplish. This book includes 11 generations of some of the descendants of John and Dempsey Thomas. The book has a Table of Contents, Indexed, 437 pages, Hardbound, Family Charts, and lots of information that most of descendants and the people of Greensboro do not know.

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 Call Bertha Jean Hoggle at (334) 624-3255

 Write to her at 22213 Alabama Highway, Greensboro, AL 36744

Mrs. Dempsey Thomas, nee Poole, was born in Edgefield District, S. C. August 19, 1803, and died in Perry Country, Alabama, June 11, 1887, at the advanced age of eighty three years, nine months and twenty-three days.

Her father, being on of the first settlers of this part of the state, she was accustomed to the hardships and privation of a frontier life; was familier with the growth and progrss of the country, and witnessed the hunting grounds of the red man converted into gardens, orchards and fields.

On February 10, 1820, in her seventeeth year, she was married to Mr. John Robert Thomas II, with whom she lived happily, sharing his labors, consoling him in adversity and rejoicing with him in prosperity till the year 1874, when death called him away. They had born to them thirteen children, the most of whom lived to adulthood, and six still survive. She leaves a host of grandchild and great granchildren. She professed religion and joined the Methodist Church soon after her marriage, and for sixty-five years led a pious and consistent life. Her piety was not of a very demonstrative type but she possed many of those sterling virtues that render their possessor happy and useful.

Ministers of the gospel ever found a hearty welcome beneath her roof, and many a passing stranger can testify to the genuine hospitality dispensed at her home. As a wife, she was a helpmate indeed, as a mother, well may her children rise up and call her blessed; as a friend or neighbor, no one had any complaint to make against Aunt Dempsey; and in her death, we all felt that another link connecting the past generation with the present has been severed; that another of the time-honored landmarks has fallen, and on of our oldest and best citizens has crossed the flood and joined loved ones gone before.

Having passed her fourscore years, she was so wrought upon by age and infirmity that her once robust frame had for a long time been very feeble, and a few weeks before her death she was striken with paralysis on one side, which ever after rendered her perfectly helpless. she knew her end was near, and expressed herself ready to go. Having trusted her blessed Saviou in life, she was assured he would not forsake her in death. Thus she went down to her grave as a shock of corn fully ripe, and she sleep in Mt. Hermon Churchyard to await the final resurrection.

B. F. Canon

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According to the Dutch Fork Genealogical Society in South Carolina, Dempsey is the daughter of John Poole.

Family Members Parents Photo John Pool 1758–1839

Mahulda Ann Holloway Pool 1764–1826

Spouse Photo John Thomas 1799–1874

Siblings Photo Mitchell Pool 1801–1862

Children Photo James Thomas 1821–1863

Photo William Thomas 1824–1900

Photo Martha Thomas Dominick 1826–1907

Andrew Thomas 1828–1828

Photo John Franklin Thomas 1829–1872

George Jackson Thomas 1831–1853

Photo Susan Mahulda Thomas Blackerby 1833–1908

Photo Isaac Richard Thomas 1836–1861

Photo Henry Clay Thomas 1840–1895

Photo Plesant Calhoun Thomas 1842–1889

Sarah E. Thomas 1846–1850

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Person Info

Name: Demphney (Dempsey) /Pool/ Sex: F Birth: 18 AUG 1803 in EDGEFIELD DISTRICT, SC Death: 11 JUN 1887 Person Id: I077 Tree Id: 153054

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Parents Father: Unknown Mother: Unknown

Family Marriage: Married: John /Thomas/.

John /Thomas/: Birth: 4 DEC 1799 in NEWBERRY DISTRICT, SC. Death: 1 NOV 1874 Children: James /Thomas/: Birth: 25 JAN 1821 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 15 DEC 1863 in Civil War, Atlanta, Georgia

Allen /Thomas/: Birth: 31 DEC 1822 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 10 APR 1900 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama

William /Thomas/: Birth: 1 MAY 1824 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 31 MAR 1900 in Perry County, Alabama

Martha /Thomas/: Birth: 11 JAN 1826 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 30 NOV 1907 in Perry County, Alabama

Andrew /Thomas/: Birth: 9 JAN 1828 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 28 OCT 1828 in Perry County, Alabama

John Franklin /Thomas/: Birth: 21 AUG 1829 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 19 JAN 1872 in Perry County, Alabama

George Jackson /Thomas/: Birth: 9 NOV 1831 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 19 DEC 1853 in Perry County, Alabama

Susan Muhulda /Thomas/: Birth: 13 DEC 1833 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 1905 in Wheeler, Wheeler County, Texas

Issac Richard /Thomas/: Birth: 10 MAY 1836 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 25 JUN 1861 in Perry County, Alabama

Robert F. /Thomas/: Birth: 11 NOV 1838 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 13 APR 1839 in Perry County, Alabama

Henry Clay /Thomas/: Birth: 25 SEP 1840 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 26 APR 1895 in Hale County, Alabama

Pleasant Calhoun /Thomas/: Birth: 30 OCT 1842 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas

Sarah C. /Thomas/: Birth: 13 OCT 1846 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama. Death: 23 AUG 1850 in Morgan Springs, Perry County, Alabama

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