Another thing or few. Apparently there were a *lot* of black Isham Thomases in GA early 1800s and then again later in the Alachua County FL. Another bit of lore I picked up (commonsense historically) for the couple I researched for my niece was made plain in the father's will - bequesting slaves and livestock. Those 2 young men mentioned at the end of the Isham B Thomas 1860 census, Isham and Ivey (name it looked like to me) may possibly have been mulatto slaves or even by an indian mother. By their ages my 1st instinct is to take them as sons or at least nephews of Isham. I gave a cursory, quick shot at trying to find them on 1850 under surnames Thomas and Wiggins, no luck. I'd thought maybe if their mother died, her parents or siblings took on those 2 boys while the papa got re-married and settled. I did not look for Wiggins outside of GA to AL AR MS, the next moves on the migration route from that time/place. At ancestry.com/rootsweb's family trees, I wasn't much surprised to find that Ishams also pop up in NC and VA, the beginning of the route. --- Sam Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > APPLES & ORANGES ... apples in North Georgia ... oranges in Florida. > > DECATUR CO, GA and FRANKLIN CO., GA are at opposite ends and side of the > states, SOUTHWEST and NORTHEAST, respectively. > > We have established that ISHAM B. THOMAS was born between 1812 - 1815, as > evidenced by the 1850 & 1860 U.S. Federal Census. > > ISHAM THOMAS on the 1801 TAX LIST was a head of household, at least 18 years > old & born before 1793, and in north Georgia. He may have been the father of > your ISHAM B. THOMAS ... maybe! But there were CLEARLY two different ISHAM > THOMASes in Georgia between 1801 and 1850. > > So, if your ISHAM was born between 1812 - 1815, where was he born? He is > clearly not in BULLOCH CO. on the 1830 Census at the age of 15 - 18 years > old. So. let's have a look at the Census for all counties on a line from > Franklin Co. to Lowndes Co. Do you know with CERTAINTY ... not guess work > ... that he was born in BULLOCH CO., GA? He might have been on the 1820 > Census under a household at age 5 - 8 years old in Bulloch Co., GA. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "K Powell" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Isham B THOMAS > > > ancestry.com Georgia Marriages to 1850 > > > > Randolph County Georgia Marriage Date: 10 Jul 1838 > > Thomas Wiggins, Isham Emeline > > Spouse: Thomas, Isham > > Wiggins, Emeline > > > > Decatur County Georgia Marriage Date: 29 Nov 1846 > > Thomas Ulmer, Isham Mary > > Spouse: Thomas, Isham > > Ulmer, Mary > > > > Georgia Census, 1790-1890 (and who is this, 1801 - papa?) > > > > THOMAS, ISHAM > > State: GA Year: 1801 > > County: Franklin County Record Type: Tax List > > Township: Tax List 1801 Page: 004 > > Database: GA 1792-1819 Tax Lists Index > > > > THOMAS, ISHAM B. > > State: GA Year: 1850 > > County: Lowndes County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule > > Township: 53rd Division Page: 385 > > Database: GA 1850 Federal Census Index > > > > 1860 census has these 2: > > THOMAS, ISHAM B. > > State: FL Year: 1860 > > County: Alachua County Record Type: Federal Population Schedule > > Township: Division 17 Page: 087 > > Database: FL 1860 Federal Census Index > > (also, next page, following the younger children) > > THOMAS, ISHAM on Page: 088 > > *which may mean that Isham b abt 1843 and Ivey abt 1842 may be Emeline > Wiggins' > > sons. These 2 were not on the 1850 census with Isham and Mary. > > > > Kaye in Texas __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com