All the info I have on the Thomas family was given to me my husbands grandmother who had it written in a bible. She is 90 and has an excellent memory too. I have done no formal research on this line but I thought I would jump in and give what I have. I have a very large picture of Mary Collison and under some matting on the back there were things written and I need to get it down and read it. I am driving through Lewisburg on my trip home during spring break. I am going to stop at the old stone church and find them. My problem with stopping and actually doing much research is that I travel with 2 toddlers! Melinda In a message dated 3/31/99 1:37:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << This David Anderson would have been about the right age to have married in the era of 1840. I do notice that this David had a son named David Richard Thomas [1845]. No wife is given in the Greenbrier book. It is possible that this David Richard Thomas who is mentioned as marrying Mary Ellen Collison/Callison was the same one that is being discussed in the Greenbrier book. Where was the information found, Melinda that you have about Mary Ellen and David Richard Thomas? If the Greenbrier book is accurate about the date of death of Amanda Dyches as being 1884, I doubt very much if David A. Thomas would have married someone else in the 1840's. Which brings us full circle to the possibility that Taylor was a maiden name and Dyches was a previously married name or something. That is all assuming that we are talking about the same David Anderson. It was Melinda who offered the information about the David Anderson who married a Sally Taylor. I would be interested in finding out who the SIBLINGS were for the David R. Thomas who married Mary Ellen Callison/Collison. That should give us an idea of whether the two David R. Thomas's and David Anderson Thomases might be the same. The coincidence of having the same children in David Anderson Thomas, and Amanda's families compared to your records for your David A. Thomas, seems too much to take lightly, I think. But I will keep an open mind. >>