Carolyn, You said you've done a lot of research on Thomas family...would you happen to have a Thomas who married a Kyzer girl?? I don't have notes out right now...but one of James McGrady Kyzer & his wife Elizabeth Clements Kyzer's daughters married a Thomas. Thanks Deb >From: Carolyn Earle Billingsley <cebillingsley@earthlink.net> >Reply-To: arsaline@rootsweb.com >To: Pris Weathers <arkansasties@arkansasties.com>, arsaline@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ARSALINE] Old House on Highway 5 >Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:50:09 -0600 > >This is the old Thomas house. William Thomas and family moved here >from NY via Illinois in the 1880s, I believe, and owned a great deal >of land in this area. He worked as a consultant for the RR. The place >was called Midland Farms and was a showplace of agricultural >practices. A few years ago, the old barn was blown up as part of a >movie scene. The land has been divided between heirs. Most recently, >LR attorney Thorp Thomas owned the house and surrounding land, but >sold it all to developers last year. The house will surely be >demolished. It was indeed a showplace for many decades, but has now >been stripped of its marble fireplaces and fancy trims, its antiques >and original furnishings. > >The mobile home park next door is owned by another Thomas family >descendant. His name is Lee Pengelly and he lives in a house at the >back of the park. > >I've done a lot of family history on this family (they're not related >to me), but it was many years ago and the details don't come to mind >as quickly as they used to! Regards, Carolyn > >At 04:40 PM 1/18/2007, you wrote: > >I am wondering if anyone can identify this old house on Highway > >5. It is across the street from Fastenal? > > > >http://www.arkansasties.com/Saline/Structures/OldHouse/OldHouse.htm > > > > > > > >Pris Weathers > >www.ArkansasTies.com > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >ARSALINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >Carolyn Earle Billingsley, Ph.D. >2100 Pleasant Grove, Alexander, AR 72002-9154 >Telephone and Fax: 501.847.0114 >Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the >Cotton Frontier (University of Georgia Press, 2004) >http://home.earthlink.net/~cebillingsley/ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >ARSALINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Turn searches into helpful donations. Make your search count. http://click4thecause.live.com/search/charity/default.aspx?source=hmemtagline_donation&FORM=WLMTAG

Different Thomas family At 07:52 PM 1/21/2007, you wrote: >Carolyn, > > > You said you've done a lot of research on Thomas family...would you >happen to have a Thomas who married a Kyzer girl?? I don't have notes out >right now...but one of James McGrady Kyzer & his wife Elizabeth Clements >Kyzer's daughters married a Thomas. > > Thanks > > Deb > > > >From: Carolyn Earle Billingsley <cebillingsley@earthlink.net> > >Reply-To: arsaline@rootsweb.com > >To: Pris Weathers <arkansasties@arkansasties.com>, arsaline@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [ARSALINE] Old House on Highway 5 > >Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:50:09 -0600 > > > >This is the old Thomas house. William Thomas and family moved here > >from NY via Illinois in the 1880s, I believe, and owned a great deal > >of land in this area. He worked as a consultant for the RR. The place > >was called Midland Farms and was a showplace of agricultural > >practices. A few years ago, the old barn was blown up as part of a > >movie scene. The land has been divided between heirs. Most recently, > >LR attorney Thorp Thomas owned the house and surrounding land, but > >sold it all to developers last year. The house will surely be > >demolished. It was indeed a showplace for many decades, but has now > >been stripped of its marble fireplaces and fancy trims, its antiques > >and original furnishings. > > > >The mobile home park next door is owned by another Thomas family > >descendant. His name is Lee Pengelly and he lives in a house at the > >back of the park. > > > >I've done a lot of family history on this family (they're not related > >to me), but it was many years ago and the details don't come to mind > >as quickly as they used to! Regards, Carolyn > > > >At 04:40 PM 1/18/2007, you wrote: > > >I am wondering if anyone can identify this old house on Highway > > >5. It is across the street from Fastenal? > > > > > >http://www.arkansasties.com/Saline/Structures/OldHouse/OldHouse.htm > > > > > > > > > > > >Pris Weathers > > >www.ArkansasTies.com > > > > > >------------------------------- > > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > >ARSALINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >Carolyn Earle Billingsley, Ph.D. > >2100 Pleasant Grove, Alexander, AR 72002-9154 > >Telephone and Fax: 501.847.0114 > >Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the > >Cotton Frontier (University of Georgia Press, 2004) > >http://home.earthlink.net/~cebillingsley/ > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >ARSALINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >_________________________________________________________________ >Turn searches into helpful donations. Make your search count. >http://click4thecause.live.com/search/charity/default.aspx?source=hmemtagline_donation&FORM=WLMTAG > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >ARSALINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Carolyn Earle Billingsley, Ph.D. 2100 Pleasant Grove, Alexander, AR 72002-9154 Telephone and Fax: 501.847.0114 Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier (University of Georgia Press, 2004) http://home.earthlink.net/~cebillingsley/