John P Thomason

John Thomason
BIRTH 23 Sep 1776
Laurens County, South Carolina, USA
DEATH 1846 (aged 69–70)
Hall County, Georgia, USA
BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
MEMORIAL ID 141315048 · View Source
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FLOWERS 8
His father could be William and his mother might be Sarah. Alternatively, his father could be John who was born circa April 1753 (in Louisa County, Virginia) as the son of Samuel T. Thomason and Ann Payne (1720-1812). Samuel T. and Ann Payne had another son William who might prove to be this man's father. That William married Unity Smith Hicks on 18 April 1786 in Louisa County, VA, but she might have been a second wife.

The contributor who maintains the memorial page for this man's son Zemeriah as well as the memorial page of this man's first wife "Hannah Abercrombie" believes erroneously that this man is John P. Thomason. That man is proven to be a distinctly different individual born in Virginia (although the middle initial of "P" is in question) who married Elizabeth Howell and later possibly Hannah Duncan after Elizabeth's passing. The man in this memorial does NOT have a middle name of "Poindexter" as that is possibly the other man with a middle initial of "P". The John P. Thomason memorial just referenced above is most likely redundant with another memorial for a John Thomasson (which is more accurate) born 1772 also in Virginia and both of those memorials are unrelated (directly) to the man of this memorial. John Thomasson just mentioned (with 2 S's in his name born 1772) is most likely the grandfather of Alexander Barham as that man's mother (Martha Barham) is most likely John's daughter by her mother Elizabeth Howell (born circa 1776).

As of February 2017, the son Zemeriah shown below is now appropriately linked to his correct parents and no longer linked erroneously to Hannah Duncan or John P. Thomason. In fact, the memorial page for said Hannah Duncan as maintained prior to February of 2017 was so riddled with errors that it has been completed deleted by F-A-G officials.

Per the family bible for the family of Hannah Abercrombie and this man, fully located siblings of Zemeriah are shown below.

In 1798 Zemeriah's parents moved to Jackson, Georgia, most likely relocating temporarily with (and to the same general area as) the family of Zemeriah's grandfather James Abercrombie. They raised 12 children total. Two daughters of Hannah and John Thomason yet to be located below are Hannah (b. 1805 and m. David Barton), and Sarah Ann "Sally" (b. 1814 and m. Stephen Barton).

The provenance for the bible page appears in the 1991 book by Carol Jacobson (Sixth Revision 2001) entitled "John Thomason & Hannah Abercrombie of South Carolina and Georgia". Here's the quote: "About 1920, Calvin (Pink) and Lena Shields copied information from the family Bible while it was in the possession of Lena's mother (Rebecca, dau of Young Thomason). Mildred (Lena's sister) had the Bible when she [Mildred] passed away [35 years after it was transcribed by Lena], but Mildred's husband decided to get rid of things and burned it along with [other] genealogy papers." The fraudulent application for Indian money and the resultant erroneous ties to the Duncan/Dunkin family of the Cherokee Nation are also well researched and documented by Carol Jacobson. Said book can be found at WorldCat

In 1836, John enlisted and served in the Hall Co. Georgia Dragoons. A couple of years after Hannah's death, he married a 2nd time on 3 July 1842 in Hall County to the mother-in-law of his sons Zemeriah and Hiram (who married Montgomery sisters).

In 1851, after his death and shortly after the death of his second wife, five of his sons (Zemeriah, Hiram, James, Young and Henry) migrated with their spouses and 42 children from Georgia to (what is now) Boone County, Arkansas. The group is believed to have traveled from Georgia with a U.S. government escort moving indians to the Oklahoma Territory. The rest of the siblings remained in Georgia and this was the beginning of many Thomason families in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri today.

15 January 2020: contributor 47619339 indicates the following: It is widely accepted that James Abercrombie married 1st Nancy Crumley and 2nd Mary Ann Beck of Cherokee Indian descent. The evidence points to the last four children being Mary Ann's and they all married in the Cherokee tribes moving to Arkansas and Oklahoma. Elizabeth, Mahala, Abia and Young David were Mary Ann's children and the others were Nancy Crumley. (Sources requested).

Family Members
Spouses
Hannah Abercrombie Thomason
1779–1842 (m. 1797)

Aisley Crittenden Thomason
1780–1850

Children
Nancy Thomason Grindle
1798–1897

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Mary Thomason Barton
1801–1840

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Zemeriah Thomason
1803–1867

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Young John Thomason
1807–1890

Harmon Thomason
1808–1876

Elizabeth Thomason Rodgers
1810–1894

Hiram Thomason
1812–1899

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James Abercrombie Thomason
1816–1881

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Young Thomason
1817–1878

Henry David Thomason
1820–1876

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The son of John Thomason & Mary _______ . He married (1) Hannah Abercrombie in 1797 in Laurens District, SC. That marriage was blessed with 14 children.

In 1851, five of John Thomason's sons (Zemeriah, Hiram, James A., Young, and Henry D.) migrated with their spouses and 42 children from Georgia to (what is now) Boone County, Arkansas. The group traveled from Georgia with a U.S. Government escort moving Indians to the Oklahoma Territory. This was the beginnings of the many Thomason families in Arkansas today.

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• Find A Grave Memorial# 30155251

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