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- Wife of Edward Thomas.
She died sometime between 1852-60.
A family tree online gives her date of death as 10 Aug 1852 in Randolph County, Alabama, though no source is stated.
She was apparently still living Dec. 25, 1852:
Edward and Sarah Thomas were members of Bethlehem-New Salem Baptist church at New Site, Tallapoosa County, from 21 March 1846 to 25 Dec 1852 when they were dismissed by letter. Their son Gabriel Thomas and wife Elizabeth were also members until the Christmas 1852 dismissal (see Find A Grave Memorial# 94358371).
The Thomases may have become members of Concord Primitive Church near Wadley, Randolph Co., AL., where her son David Thomas married Ailsey McCain in 1856, so Sarah Thomas could be buried in the cemetery there.
The McCains were members of this church. They may have had connections to Archibald Irvin who married Edward Thomas's sister Mary Thomas, and it's possible that Edward's son Archibald was named for him.
Several family trees online give Sarah's maiden name as Anderson (not verified).
Edward Thomas married Sarah in South Carolina or Georgia, probably Georgia. She was 15 years younger, born in Georgia (per the 1850 census). Edward's older children were born in S.C., the younger ones in Georgia, so Sarah probably was a second wife. Or the census taker in 1850 could have made a mistake. Some family trees give Sarah's maiden name as Anderson, though probably guessing because her son or stepson David A. Thomas was the father of John Anderson Thomas. DNA results strongly indicate the first wife of Edward Thomas was indeed an Anderson and that they probably married in Pennsylvania. She appears to have been a daughter of William Marshall Anderson and Elizabeth Willett who moved from Birdsville, Anne Arundel, Maryland to Bedford, Pennsylvania in 1790. Edward's sister Elizabeth definitely married in Maryland, in Warren County in 1804.
There might be some connection to Henry Anderson (1816/18-1884) who lived in Newton Co, GA. 1850 & 1860 and whose wife was Charlotte Thomas Askew (1817-1894). They lived in Newton County, Georgia, in 1850 and 1860 along with their son David Anderson (b.1846).
1826-28 Edward Thomas moved to Georgia.
1830 census Newton County, Georgia: living next door to Mary Thomas Irvin and her husband Archibald Irvin (born 1788 Ireland).
1840 Newton County, Georgia: still there. Archibald Irvin after 1840 moved from Newton County to Chambers County, Alabama, and after 1850 to nearby Dudleyville, Tallapoosa Co., AL.
1841-44: Edward and Sarah Thomas and families moved to Tallapoosa County, Alabama
1850: Edward and Sarah Thomas lived in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. He was now blind and his sons operated his farm.
The children of Edward and Sarah Thomas were:
1. Adaline Thomas born 1817 SC m. Jack Porter
2. Gabriel born 1819 SC m. Eliz. Smith
3. Samuel S. Miles Archibald ("Archie Miles") Thomas born 1821 SC m. Rebecca Eliz. Parker
4. Caroline Thomas born 1825 SC (never married)
5. David A. Thomas born 1829 GA m. Ailsey McCain
6. Cornelius Thomas born 1831 GA m. E.
7. George Edward Thomas born 1833 m. Mary Ann Brown
8. Martha A.E. Thomas (1835 GA-1900) m. John Patty
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1798 - 1852 (54 years)