Sunday, November 4, 2012

Dicy Thomas, Possible Mother to James "Speck" Thomas?

I decided to look into the 1850 Lee County, VA census in any attempt to find anymore clues to a possible connection with James "Speck" Thomas and Lee County, VA.  I did find a Dicy Thomas, aged 57.

Name:Dicy Thomas
Age:57
Birth Year:abt 1793
Birthplace:Virginia
Home in 1850:District 31, Lee, Virginia
Gender:Female
Family Number:1377
Household Members:
NameAge
Dicy Thomas57
George Thomas37
Jane Thomas20
Margaret Thomas17
Nathaniel Thomas15

Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: District 31, Lee, Virginia; Roll: M432_955; Page: 401A; Image: 330.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.


Intrigued by the name since James "Speck" Thomas did have a daughter named Dyceann, I decided to see if I could find Lee County Dicy again.  I located her in the 1870 census this time in OWSLEY County, KY.  Note as well the "A" middle initial.  Hrmm!

Name:Dicey A Thomas
Age in 1870:79
Birth Year:abt 1791
Birthplace:Virginia
Home in 1870:Booneville, Owsley, Kentucky
Race:White
Gender:Female
Post Office:Booneville
Value of real estate:View image
Household Members:
NameAge
Nathaniel Thomas36
Margaret E Thomas8
George A Thomas6
Dicey A Thomas79

Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Booneville, Owsley, Kentucky; Roll: M593_494; Page: 307A; Image: 9; Family History Library Film: 545993.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.


And again in the 1880 census still in Owsley County, KY.

Name:Dicy A. Thomas
Age:91
Birth Year:abt 1789
Birthplace:Virginia
Home in 1880:Booneville, Owsley, Kentucky
Race:White
Gender:Female
Relation to Head of House:Mother
Marital Status:Widowed
Father's Birthplace:Virginia
Mother's Birthplace:Virginia
Neighbors:View others on page
Occupation:At Home
Cannot read/write:

Blind:

Deaf and dumb:

Otherwise disabled:

Idiotic or insane:
Household Members:
NameAge
Nathaniel Thomas45
George A. Thomas16
Dicy A. Thomas91

Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Booneville, Owsley, Kentucky; Roll: 438; Family History Film: 1254438; Page: 295D; Enumeration District: 079; Image: 0273.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site.


Owsley County, KY is one of the prominent Kentucky counties in our Thomas line, so this bears further research to see if perhaps Lee County Dicy is possibly a relation.  Perhaps she was the mother of James "Speck" Thomas who later named a daughter after her...

1 comment:

  1. Dicey Ann is my 4x great grandmother. I have a tree on ancestry if it will help you make a connection. Let me know! Maybe you will see some familiar names? Also I have taken a dna test, not sure if you have but maybe we could find a connection that way.

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