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Note: 1860 Census enumerated as Barbara A. K. M. Brigman, age 2, female, b. GA
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1870 Census enumerated as Kansas B. Brigman, age 11, female, white, at home, b. GA
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1880 Census - GMD 761/Texas Dist, Heard Co, Georgia, #5 w/spouse Asa J. Smith; pg. 69A
Asa J. SMITH Self M Male W 40 GA Farming GA GA
Caroline SMITH Wife M Female W 48 GA Keeping House VA GA
Lewis SMITH Son S Male W 13 GA Laborer GA GA
Ida SMITH Dau S Female W 6 GA GA GA
Allice SMITH Dau S Female W 9 GA At School GA GA
Kansas BRIGMAN SDau S Female W 21 GA At Home GA GA
John BRIGMAN SSon S Male W 19 GA Laborer GA GA
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1900 Census - GMD 761/Texas Dist, Heard Co, Georgia; pg. 50B, ED 73
Jones, Winston W, head, Dec 1850, 49, married 12 years
Jones, Lavedra, wife, May 1858, 42, 2 children, 1 living
Jones, Kansas, dau, Apr 1898, 2
>>>> names of wife & daughter are crossed-up
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1910 Census - Militia District 788 Franklin District, Heard Co., GA; pg. 264, ED 63
HH as of April 15, 1910 - Enumerated May 3/4, 1910
Franklin and Simpson Road
#220-120
Kansas Jones, head, F W, 51, Wd, 1/2 children, GA GA GA
Lavada, dau, F W, 12, S, GA GA GA
#221-121
Bariys C. Wright, head, M B, 31, M 1x for 12, yrs, GA GA GA
#222-222
Asa J. Smith, head, M W, 71, M 2x - current for 10 yrs, GA GA GA
Nola M. Smith, wife, F W, 39, M 1x for 10 yrs, 0/0 children, GA GA VA
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1920 Census - Franklin District No. 788, Heard Co., GA; ED 64; pg. 6B
HH as of Jan 1, 1920 - Enumerated April 15, 1920 - #FM-110-112
Otis B. Caswell head, M W, 32, M, GA GA GA
Lavada, wife, F W, 20, M, GA GA GA
Kansas T. Jones, Mother-in-law, F W, 61, Wd, GA GA GA (s/b Thompson, not Jones)
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Georgia Deaths, 1919-98
Kansas J. Jones
16 December 1925
County: Heard
Certificate: 32958-G
- - - State of Georgia
Certificate of Death
Death Certificate #32958
Name: Thompson, Kansas Jones
Date Of Death: December 16 1925 Time:
Place Of Death: Heard Co., Georgia
Residence: Not given (Would guess Heard Co.)
Gender: Female
Race: W
Age: 67 yrs, 7 mos
Marital Status: Widower
Spouse: Thompson, J. R.
Date Of Birth: May 14 1858
Place Of Birth: Heard Co., Georgia
Mother's Name: Unknown, Unknown
Mother's Birthplace: Unknown
Father's Name: Unknown, Unknown
Father's Birthplace: Unknown
Cause Of Death: Not given
Hospital: Unavailable
SS Number: Unavailable
Occupation: Housewife
Funeral Home: Lewis Lipford, Undertaker
Doctor: None given
Coroner: Unavailable
Informant: O. B. Caswell -- Franklin, Ga. (son in law)
Date Of Burial: December 17 1925
Place Of Burial: Olive Branch (Church & Cemetery - Franklin, Heard Co., GA)
Date Recorded: December 17 1925
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GAHEARD-L Archives
From: jab50@@bellsouth.net
Subject: [GAHEARD] KANSAS JONES
Date: 11 Nov 2003 18:42:41 -0700
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Bd.2ADE/709
Seeking information regarding a woman named Kansas Jones who married J.R.
Thompson on January 23, 1911. Uncle Jim Thompson's wife had died in Erath
County, TX in 1906 and he returned to Heard County, GA where he remarried
this woman. Who was she? Was she part of the Jones family that migrated
from Heard County to TX around the turn of the century? Could they have
known each other in TX and both returned to Heard County ? It has been
said that when Uncle Jim married her, she was a "widow woman with a daughter".
What was her maiden name? Uncle Jim died in 1913. She died 16 December
1925. A big puzzle piece I need solved in my family lines. Any information
appreciated. Those new marriage volume books by the historical society has their
marriage date listed as 1911.
Jane Benson
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Subj: Re: Kansas Jones
Date: 11/12/03 8:53:48 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: jab50@@bellsouth.net
To: VCJFreeman@@aol.com
Heard County is a genealogical nightmare, to say the least ! So far, checks in TX, AL and GA in 1900, 1910 and 1920 have not turned up anything on this elusive lady. What I DIDN'T put on the message board was the fact that this little lady, according to family stories, actually tried to poison Uncle Jim. That was most likely his cause of death. Whoever she was, she must have been one very strange woman so I am anxious to learn as much about her as I can. Kansas is an unusual name in that time frame, too.
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Subj: Re: Kansas Jones
Date: 11/17/03 10:25:40 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: jab50@@bellsouth.net
To: VCJFreeman@@aol.com
Nah........no way I could hate anybody. My genes have never developed that emotion. What I was trying to do was find some logical cause for the possibility. When I first heard that tidbit about Uncle Jim, I was reminded of another family situation which has some similarities.
My grandparents were Reuben Ashley Jr. & Minnie Martha Elizabeth Thompson. Uncle Jim was my grandmother's brother. And, while I have no documented evidence of Alzheimers running in the Thompson family lines, I have documented many cases of it in the Ashley side of the family. Unlike most other researchers, I have filled in the medical field on every family member that I could all the way back to my great grandparents. As a child, I was deeply interested in the medical field, especially research, and had my mother not pooh-poohed the idea, I would have gone into research, especially genetics/DNA area.
The reason I was interested in Uncle Jim's case is because when one of my half brother's wife died, he was depressed for several years and then wound up marrying another woman by the same exact first name...Mattie. They were only married a short time but in that brief interlude, Roy seemed to go haywire and eventually she had him put in the psychiatric unit of a hospital. Roy and Mattie only had one child, a son, and when he finally learned of his father's hospitalization, he went, had him checked out, and carried him home to live with him. That was when the true story of the medical condition became known.....he had Alzheimers really bad and it was not until he went out one morning on the front porch and decided to shoot the tires off Jimmy's truck that Jimmy finally realized just how bad his father was. He eventually died a few weeks later from a stroke but Jimmy had to have him put in a nursing home between the time of the incident and the stroke.
So, you know, I can't help but wonder about the situation with Uncle Jim. His wife was Mary Sarah Hardy and it was following Aunt Mary's death in 1906 that he came back to Heard County. Knowing the way men are, there is no telling what kind of shape, health-wise, he might have been in. While I've many documented cases of medical causes in the Ashley family, I don't have very much on the Thompson side of the family and so I don't know if the documented cases came from the Ashley or the Thompson grandparent of mine. The causes of death that I do have on the few Thompsons are from mostly old age and related diseases, especially heart problems.
This family tree seems a logical possibility but I note that you have her date of death as 15 Oct. 1945 and the death date that I have for Uncle Jim's second wife was 16 December 1925. So, I don't know, Valerie. The fact that her name was Kansas and she married a Jones also makes it a logical possibility. Is there any chance that one of us the wrong death date ? I'll check my records and see where I got that date to make sure it is correct. I do know that Uncle Jim died in 1913. And, those new marriage volume book by the historical society has their marriage date listed as 1911.
Sure am glad you found at least this one possibility. Sure sounds intriguing and perhaps will finally give me and you a tiny point of family connection that we've been searching for for such a long time. Never did make it on the Hardy side, did we? But, perhaps yet.................
Jane
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From: Candace Gravelle
To: Jane Benson
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 8:14 PM
Subject: Kansas Jones and J.R. Thompson Guardian Bond for Lavada Jones, child of Kansas Jones Thompson
Jane,
I went to the Family History Center today to look at some of the films that came in for Heard County, Georgia and found one that might provide more clues about Kansas Jones who married J.R. Thompson, or it might lead to more questions (probably the latter or both). This is a Natural Guardian Bond that Kansas Jones Thompson and her husband J.R. Thompson filed in Heard County, Georgia
on April 16, 1912. The film is really badly scanned and very dark in some parts of the filming and the writing is not great to read, but here is what I think it says, and I also scanned it and have it as an attachment, in case you can open the attachment. Otherwise, I will just mail you the paper copies of it.
Natural Guardian Bond Georgia, Heard County: Know all men by these presents that we Kansas Thompson as principal
and J. R. Thompson and J. E. Mooty as security are bound unto T. M. Awbrey
Ordinary of said County and his successors in office in the sum of one hundred
Dollars, for the payment of which we bind ourselves our heirs and assigns jointly and severally.
Signed, sealed and delivered this 16 day of April 1912.
The condition of the above bond is such that if the said Kansas Thompson, the Natural Guardian of her child Leveda Jones to whom recently there has been given by will of Alford N. Jones deceased a pecuniary legacy of some Fifty Dollars, shall will and truly demean herself according to law as Guardian of such funds when received by her then the above bond to be null and void; else to remain in full force.
Tested and affieved by me {Kansas X Thompson (seal)
April 16, 1912 {J. R. X Thompson (seal)
T. M. Awbrey, Ordinary {J. E. Mooty (seal) Filed in office April 16, 1912 Recorded April 19, 1912 (signed) T. M. Awbrey Ordinary *
Subject: [GAHEARD] Re: KANSAS JONES
Date: 5/8/2005 10:52:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: marypatd@@juno.com (Marypat Drummond)
Reply To: GAHEARD-L@@rootsweb.com
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Surnames: Wood, Jones, Turner, Ray, Drummond, Almon, Morgan
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Bd.2ADE/709.2
Message Board Post:
Barbara A. Kansas M. "Lavada" Brigman m. Winston Wood Jones abt 1888 in Heard Co, GA. Winston's 2nd marriage. He was b. December 12, 1850 in Oglethorpe Co, GA and d. August 1907. Kansas and Winston had two children. One who died young and the other, a girl named "Lavada", b. Abt April 1898 in Heard Co, GA. She m. Otis B. Caswell December 14, 1914 in Heard Co.
Winston Wood Jones was the son of Alfred Nolan Jones and Martha Prudence Wood.
mp in TX
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Subject: Kansas Brigman Jones Thompson of Heard County Georgia
Date: 1/2/2009 5:10:50 P.M. Pacific Standard Time
From: tbengland@@yahoo.com
To: vcjfreeman@@aol.com
Hi, Valerie:
I saw the information you posted via Rootsweb about the above person (http://files.usgwarchives.org/ga/heard/vitals/deaths/dt64thompson.txt) and was really pleased to see that someone might have some inkling of an idea who she was.
I am a Brigman researcher and I recently ran across reference to a big 1892 case in Texas where Kansas Brigman/Bridgeman was trying to convince the courts that she was heir to some acreage due to a George Brigman/Bridgman who fell along side Fannin at Goliad in 1836. Are you familiar with this?
I'd love to chat with you about it. I'm pretty familiar with the Brigmans who came out of the Walker area (and I assume then into Heard) and the claims Kansas seem to have made don't make sense. Still, I haven't read the whole court case and don't really know enough to comment accurately. I'm more curious than anything.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Terri Brigman England
San Antonio, TX
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