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  1. George Thomas is a descendant of Price N. Thomas, brother of Virginia Thomas. Email correspondence, copy of letter of 1913, from L. Starling Thomas, to his grandfather, Transcript of 1784 Court Case.23 Jan 2001
  2. Nell Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers.: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants , 7 Volumes. (Richmond: Virginia State Library.), Vol III, p.369, 383.
  3. Goochland Co VA Deed Books 4-5; Microfilm #0031654. Deed Books 6-8; Microfilm #0031655. Deed Books 9-11 Microfilm #0031656. (LDS)
  4. Abstracted & Compiled by Lucille C. Payne & Neil G. Payne, Pittsylvania County, Virginia Deed Books 1,2, & 3 (Southern Historical Press, Inc. 1991), p.12, 67, 78, 107, 131
  5. Halifax County, Virginia Deed Books 1 & 2 1752-1766 [LDS Microfilm #828506]

  6. Louise Pledge Heath Foley, Compiler, Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots & Tangled Branches. 3 Volumes. Patents taken from CAVALIERS & PIONEERS. (Richmond: Foley, 1974. np: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co Inc, 1980), Vol 1 Henrico County - Goochland County
  7. Rootsweb or USGenWeb Online Sources <http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm> or <http://www.usgenweb.org>
    , Pittsylvania Co VA USGenWeb homepage.
  8. Pittsylvania Co Virginia Deeds; Deed Books 3 & 4, Microfilm #0033263; Deeds & Wills Book 5, Microfilm #0033264; DB 6 & 7 with some Court Records from 1767, Microfilm #0033265; DB 8, Microfilm #0033266; DB 9 & 10, Microfilm #0033267; Deeds & Wills 11, Microfilm #0033290 [these are dated earlier than DB 9; the wills begin in 1780]
  9. Gayle Austin, The Land Tax Lists of Pittsylvania County, Virginia 1782-1802 (Greenville, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 2006), p.4
  10. Email
  11. Rootsweb or USGenWeb Online Sources <http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm> or <http://www.usgenweb.org>

  12. Data from Brenda Walters, descendant of Phillip Henry Thomas. Email, copies of records, Pedigree Chart, Family Group Sheets. Jan 2001.
  13. US Census - Digital Images Online by Subscription (Ancestry.com); 1790-1930, 1820; VA, Pittsylvania Co, p.52
  14. George Thomas is a descendant of Price N. Thomas, brother of Virginia Thomas. Email correspondence, copy of letter of 1913, from L. Starling Thomas, to his grandfather
  15. Marian Dodson Chiarito, Entry Record Book 1770-1796: Land Entries in the Present Virginia Counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin, and Patrick (Reprinted Iberian Publishing Co, Athens, GA, 1996), p.62,65,80
  16. Ibid.
  17. Austin, The Land Tax Lists of Pittsylvania County, Virginia 1782-1802
  18. Marian Dodson Chiarito, Entry Record Book 1770-1796: Land Entries in the Present Virginia Counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin, and Patrick , p.91
  19. US Census - Digital Images Online by Subscription 1790-1930, 1830, VA, Pittsylvania Co, p.323
  20. Katharine Kerr Kendall with Index by Mary Frances Kerr Donaldson, Caswell County North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1778-1868. (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1981) , p.152
  21. Holderness research by Francie Lane <flane@otn.net> Possible relationship with second wife (if she was a Lewis) of James Holderness.
  22. Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Marriage Bonds. The Rawley Martin Chapter of DAR recorded all names and dates of the Marriage Records of Pittsylvania Co into a book titled "Marriage Bonds No. 1; 1767-1862". 16 Feb 1942 Microfilmed by LDS, #0033326.
  23. Jordan R. Dodd, et al, Virginia Marriages - Early to 1800 Liahona Research, Inc. Online at Ancestry.com by subscription. (Precisions Indexing Publishers; Boutiful, UT)
  24. Catherine Lindsay Knorr, Marriage Bonds & Ministers Returns of Charlotte County Virginia 1764-1815, (Pine Bluff, AR: Self-published, 1951.), p.82
  25. Marriage Certificate or Copy of Record from County.
  26. Ibid.
  27. Jordan R. Dodd et al, Virginia Marriage Index 1740-1850. Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1850. (Precision Indexing Publishers, Bountiful UT 19xx)
  28. Abstracts by Katharine Kerr Kendall, Caswell County North Carolina Deed Books 1817-1840 . (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1992)

  29. US Census - Digital Images Online by Subscription 1790-1930, 1820; VA, Pittsylvania Co, p.51
  30. Ibid.
  31. Ibid.
  32. US Census 1850 VA Digital Online
  33. U.S. Census. HeritageQuest digital images. Subscription., 1870, VA, Henry Co, p.65
  34. Ibid.
  35. US Census 1850 VA Digital Online, Henry Co, p.21, Household 136
  36. US Census - Digital Images Online by Subscription 1790-1930
  37. U.S. Census. HeritageQuest digital images. Subscription., 1870, GA, Fulton Co, 3rd Ward Atlanta, M593_151, p.241, Dwelling 279
  38. US Census 1880 - FamilySearch CD-ROM Transcription of entire 1880 Census by the LDS; 2000., Virginia, Pittsylvania Co, Dan River; p.198C
  39. US Census - Digital Images Online by Subscription 1790-1930, 1820; VA, Pittsylvania Co, p.61
  40. Ibid.
  41. The Daily News-Clarion; published in Sulphur Springs, TX
  42. US Census 1850 NC, Caswell Co, Roll 623, p.197 Household 334
  43. Katharine Kerr Kendall, Caswell County North Carolina Will Books, 1843-1868; Guardian Accounts, 1848-1868. (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1986)
  44. WorldConnect database at Rootsweb. <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/> [This is the same file available from Ancestry.com Family Trees.]

  45. Kendall, Caswell County North Carolina Deed Books 1817-1840 , p.286
  46. U.S. Census. HeritageQuest digital images. Subscription., 1860, VA, Henry Co, Martinsville P.O., p.68
  47. Ibid.
  48. US Census - Digital Images Online by Subscription 1790-1930, 1850, VA, Henry Co, p.34, Household 461
  49. US Census 1880 - FamilySearch CD-ROM Transcription of entire 1880 Census by the LDS; 2000., Virginia, Henry Co, Martinsville, p.82C
  50. Virginia G. and Lewis G. Pedigo, History of Patrick and Henry Counties Virginia (Stone Printing & Manufacturing Co; Roanoke, VA, 1933), "Mrs. Mary A. Reamey Thomas" p.275-279
  51. US Census 1880 - FamilySearch CD-ROM Transcription of entire 1880 Census by the LDS; 2000., Virginia, Pittsylvania Co., Dan River, p.197A
  52. Pittsylvania County Heritage Book Committee, compiler, Pittsylvania County Virginia - Heritage; 1767-2004 (: Walsworth Publishing Co., 2004), #1027 Allen Pinkney & Myrtle Hamlett Thomas, p.326
  53. US Census 1880 - FamilySearch CD-ROM Transcription of entire 1880 Census by the LDS; 2000., Virginia, Henry Co, Irisburg; p.150D
  54. Rootsweb or USGenWeb Online Sources <http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm> or <http://www.usgenweb.org>
    , Pittsylvania Co USGenWeb: Marriages 1860-1869
  55. US Census 1880 - FamilySearch CD-ROM Transcription of entire 1880 Census by the LDS; 2000., Virginia, Henry Co, Irisburg; p.151A
  56. US Census 1860 AR, Calhoun Co, Mino Twp; P.O. Thomas' Store; p.659; Household 200
  57. US Census 1850 NC; Digital images online. GenealogyLibrary.com., Caswell Co; p.197; Household 334
  58. Obituary
  59. US Census 1860 AR, Dallas Co, Princeton Twp; p.1056; Dwelling 691
  60. U.S. Census. HeritageQuest digital images. Subscription., 1870, AR, Calhoun Co. p.456, household 103.
  61. US Census 1850 AR; Digital images online at GenealogyLibrary.com., Dallas Co; Smith Twp; p.53b; Household 731
  62. US Census 1880 - FamilySearch CD-ROM Transcription of entire 1880 Census by the LDS; 2000., Arkansas, Dallas Co; Princeton, p.171B
  63. Ibid.
  64. US Census 1850 AR; Digital images online at GenealogyLibrary.com., Dallas Co; Princeton Twp; p.441, Household 591
  65. US Census - Digital Images Online by Subscription 1790-1930, 1860, AR, Ouachita Co, Camden, p.157, Hh 1075
  66. Family Tree Maker CD-ROM, WFT- Volume 1, Pedigree #1103
  67. The Ladonia News (Ladonia, Texas), Jun 9, 1988 "About Ladonia"
  68. John Haden (Interview & Papers from daughter-in-law Linda)
  69. Compiled and written by Marvin E. Holderness, Sr., Holderness: History & Genealogy of the Holderness Family (New York c1958), p.7
  70. US Census 1870 TX, Hopkins Co
  71. Ralph V. Wood, Jr., Ontario County, New York State; 1810 Federal Population Census Schedule Transcript and Index (Ralph v. Wood, Jr., 18 Bates Street, Cambridge MA 02140, c1964), US Census 1900 TX
  72. Digital Images online at Genealogy.com. 20 Jun 2001., Hopkins Co, p.185, Household 275
  73. US Census 1880 - FamilySearch CD-ROM Transcription of entire 1880 Census by the LDS; 2000., Texas, Hopkins Co, Prec 4; p.178D
  74. Biographic Souvenir of Texas, 1889, "R. C. Holderness"
  75. Compiled and written by Marvin E. Holderness, Sr., Holderness: History & Genealogy of the Holderness Family, p.8
  76. Joseph Benjamin Haden (Personal writings), Letter.
  77. Digital Images online at Genealogy.com. 20 Jun 2001., Hopkins Co, p.56, Sulphur Springs; Household 6
  78. Grave Marker
  79. Joseph Benjamin Haden, Newspaper Clipping.
  80. Death Certificate, #32884; Fannin Co, Texas
  81. Grave Marker, Ladonia City Cemetery, Ladonia, TX, Visited 1993
  82. Death Certificate, Copy sent to me by Claire White
  83. John Haden, Phone interview of 2 August 2000.
  84. Joseph Benjamin Haden, Newspaper Clippings; Ladonia News.
  85. Digital Images online at Genealogy.com. 20 Jun 2001., Hunt County, Commerce, p.118, Household #300
  86. U.S. Census. HeritageQuest digital images. Subscription., 1910, TX, Delta Co, Precinct 1, Cooper City, Sheet 6, Household 129.
  87. Death Certificate, #48611, State of Texas.
  88. Compiled and written by Marvin E. Holderness, Sr., Holderness: History & Genealogy of the Holderness Family, p.19
  89. Joseph Benjamin Haden
  90. Family Tree Maker CD-ROM, WFT- Volume 1, Pedigree 1103
  91. Social Security Death Index. Search available on <http://www.ancestry.com> and on <RootsWeb.com>, Last payment in Dallas, Dallas Co TX
  92. Joseph Benjamin Haden, Letter found with other papers.
  93. Walter A. Zama, Holderness File - Nancy Connor Zama
  94. Joseph Benjamin Haden, Letter and Postcard written 1907.
  95. Data from Brenda Walters, descendant of Phillip Henry Thomas. Email, copies of records, Pedigree Chart, Family Group Sheets. Jan 2001., Email 11 Mar 2001.