Services and Other:
HALE COUNTY, ALABAMA
MARRIAGE RECORDS (white)
March 31, 1867 thru December 28, 1920
Compiled by
Ruth S. Johnson
Rosalind S. Mathews
Ordering Information: e-mail Anita L. McCray
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BERTHA JEAN HOGGLE
PUBLISHES
BOOK ON THE THOMAS FAMILY
In the early 1800's John Thomas and
Dempsey Pool came with their parents, Andrew and
Sarah Thomas and John and Mahulda Holloway Pool
from Newberry, South Carolina to Shelby
County, Alabama. This couple was married
on February 11, 1820. Soon after that, this
couple, along with their parents and siblings,
came to Perry County, the area now know as the
Mt. Herman Community, Hale County, Alabama. This
couple had 13 children of which 6 of them raised
large families in Hale County, whose
descendants have been and still are very
active in all walks of life. 4 of their children
died young and 3 married and had children who left
Alabama and went to Texas after the Civil War.
Their sons, James and Henry Thomas served in the
Civil War. James died in Atlanta, Georgia of
pneumonia and was brought back to Mt. Herman
Church Cemetery for burial and Henry lost an
arm in Battle at Peachtree, Georgia, but lived
to come back home with his family. In 1961, Mrs.
Annie Lavender and Mrs. Nell Hall, great
grand-daughters of John and Dempsey Thomas,
inspired the author of this book to take up where
they had left off and try to carry on their legacy.
These two lovely ladies had traveled many miles
and had done extensive research while visiting
members of this family. Knowing their capabilities
were getting very few at their age, they gave
copies of their work to the author in the hopes
that she would continue on with their heritage
that they loved so much. This undertaking has
taken a long time and many miles of travel to
courthouses, cemeteries, and visits to relatives
to compile this book. With the use of computers
and help of so many wonderful people, the author
has completed what she set out to accomplish.
This book includes 11 generations of some of the
descendants of John and Dempsey Thomas.
The book has a Table of Contents, Indexed, 437 pages,
Hardbound, Family Charts, and lots of information
that most of descendants and the people of
Greensboro do not know.
Ordering Information:
Call Bertha Jean Hoggle at
(334) 624-3255
Write to her at 22213 Alabama Highway,
Greensboro, AL 36744
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