Fifth Generation

51. Junius F. THOMAS⁵⁹ was born in 1842 in Caswell County, North Carolina.⁴²

Dallas Co AR Probate Records, Book A, 1845. Oct Term 1855
Junius F. Thomas, Minor. William A. Thomas by his attorney filled a petition. Junius F. Thomas is a minor under the age of 14 and now a resident of Dallas Co and has property in NC consisting of slaves and money from the sale of lands devised to him by his father, Nathaniel P. Thomas, late of Caswell Co NC, amounting to about the sum of $10, 000. Request to appoint Philip H. Thomas of Dallas Co AR guardian of sd Junius F. Thomas. Bond of $20,000 with Nathaniel W. Richmond, George W. Taylor, Peter Rounsaville and William A. Thomas securities. Ordered that certificate of guardianship be awarded Philip H. Thomas.

In 1853, the 500 acre tract in Caswell Co NC, left to Junius in the will of his father was sold to Joel Brown Walters for $4630. Walters named the tract "North Bend" and lived there for the rest of his life, until 1893. Joel was a first cousin of Junius's mother Rebecca.

1860 Dallas Co AR Census has a Junius Thomas, age 18, born in NC living in the household of Phillip Thomas, age 33.

Junius F. THOMAS and J.M. WALKER were married on 18 November 1868 in Dallas County, Alabama.⁹⁵ J.M. WALKER was born (date unknown).