In a message dated 1/26/99 2:36:15 PM Central Standard Time, THOMAS-D- request@rootsweb.com writes: >>-------------------- >>X-Message: #1 >>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:26:38 EST >>From: Marlene456@aol.com >>To: THOMAS-L@rootsweb.com >>Message-ID: <e28b5069.36ad27de@aol.com> >>I found my Sophrena Thomas' wedding certificate (to Prelette McGoon) in IA, >>30 AUG 1872. A John Thomas had signed that she was of appropriate age and >>condition to marry. I also found a John Thomas with son John and daughter >>"Sophronia" in IA at that time. What is puzzling me is that my very reliable >>grandmother wrote a history in which she says she remembers personally her >>grandfather Thomas, and he was a slave-owner with a plantation in Louisiana or >>Virginia! The John Thomas and Sophronia in IA are listed as having been born >>in Wales. Does anybody have any ideas about this? >>Marlene Do you know which county in Iowa they lived in? Joy