Re: Joicy Toombs/Tombs of TN
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Re: Joicy Toombs/Tombs of TN
Tommy Harris 8/28/11
Your Emily Emaline Lamb and my Thomas Lamb/aka Overton were brother and sister. Thomas married Nancy Jane Johnson.Emily's son, Jasper Harris married Nancy's sister, Eliza Jane Johnson. Nancy said Thomas told her about changing his last name from Lamb to Overton after his mother's maiden name, on his deathbed.I'm not buying that since Thomas' sister and her family came to Washington Co. AR after her husband died, and her son married Nancy's sister.She knew it was his sister and she surely knew that her maiden name had been Lamb. But we never could find anything on a Mary OVERTON.We did find marriage records a few years ago in TN between William and Mary KNOT for Mar. 29, 1844, which is the same year that some people on genealogy sites have said is the date that William marr. Mary OVERTON.Mary is listed in the 1850 Union Co. TN census.Her tombstone in Henry Cove Cemetery, Coffee, TN says her date of birth was 13 Jan 1809.This would mean that she was around 40 when she married William, and she was not the mother of William's four children. You gave Mary's parents as Thomas OVERTON and Elizabeth Betsy Austin.This seems to scream out to me that Mary was an Overton and married to someone named Knot before she marr. William.Right?The marr. dates are the same so she has to be the same person.
William LAMB marr. Joicy TOOMBS/TOMBS Feb 7, 1819.I have copy of that marriage cert. as well.So Joicy must have been the mother of our ancestors.You said she was still living in 1850 in AL.They must have gotten a divorce then for some reason and he kept the children which his next wife Mary raised.Have you heard or found anything about a divorce?Do you have any other info on Joicy?
Your mother and aunt came to visit me many years ago.They showed me a picture of Emily Emaline Lamb smoking her pipe.They said they'd send me a copy but never did.Do you have access to that photo?I would so love to have a copy of it.I have no idea what her brother Thomas, my grt. grandfather looked like.My dad said he had rheumatism so bad in his later years that he had to be dressed and fed, and they would put him on a sled and take him out to the fields so he could watch the people working.
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Re: Joicy Toombs/Tombs of TN
Tommy Harris 8/29/11