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Note: Buried in Remlap,AL Remlap Methodist Church Cemetery Married Twice: First Marriage to Elizabeth Tate from TN B:Feb 9,1826 TN D:Mar 30,1857 Elizabeth died in childbirth in 1857.
Children: First Marriage: W.W. "Bill" B: Jun 2,1846 D: Dec 22,1932 Married: Elizabeth Sullivan
Mary Jane. B: Jan 13,1848 D: Married: William Walter. "Bill" Sullivan Children of Mary Jane and William Walter Sullivan (Bill) M Leonard LeDora Felon Felix Girl Elizabeth Ann Additional Children Not Mentioned: Thomas R. B: 29 Sep 1873 Daniel Lovert B: 16 Jan 1898 (Betty Lou White's Grandfather) Viola Pearl B: 2 May 1888 Information on Daniel Lovert Sullivan, B: 16 Jan Remlap,Al D: Aug 1959 Merced,CA Married: Millie Ann Wilson Children: Mertie Mae Elsie Ernest Clifton B: 17 April 1904 D: 5 March 1970 Married: Josephine Mae Duffy Children: Betty Lou (White) Reuben E. B: May 15,1850 D: May 27,1851 (Infant Death) T.Milton B: July 27,1851 D:Feb 4,1868 (Teenage Death) Lucy Ann B: Apr 5,1854 D: Married: Dan Reid Leonard May B: Jun 13,1855 D: Married: Sara Elizabeth Doss Elizabeth B: Mar 30,1857 D: Mar 30,1858 (Infant Death)
Second Family: Married: 8 Dec 1857 Sarah "Sallie" Edwards B:Mar 12,1834 D:May 6,1907 Lived in Morris, AL (Jefferson County) Named for his mother Elizabeth "Betsy" May's, brother (Thomas May) who appears in the 1820 Floyd County, KY census. He had 7 children by his first wife Elizabeth Tate (listed above) plus 10 children by his second wife Sarah "Sallie" Edwards.
Children by second family: Ellen B:Oct 10, 1858 D: Sep 20,1949 Married: Thomas A. Landford Lovert L. B:Apr 15, 1860 D: May 1, 1945 Married: Nancy Louiza Rogers Loverga B:Apr 15, 1860 D: Jan 4, 1933 Married: Susan America Rogers Eli Harrison B:Sep 4, 1862 D: Mar 31,1954 Married: Fannie Lee Taylor LaVenie B:May 3, 1864 D: Jun 18, 1947 Married: Secretary Harris Dovina B:May 3, 1864 D: July 17, 1943 Married: John Gassaway Rogers Missouri A. B:May 28, 1866 D: (Infant Death) John Wesley B:Dec 7, 1867 D: Nov 7, 1908 Married: Nancy Vela Sharit Missouri E. B:Nov 18, 1870 D: 1935 Married: George W. Turham Virginia B:Mar 2, 1873 D: Jun 10, 1917Married: Rufus W. Russell
After Elizabeth (First Wife) died in childbirth in 1857, Thomas May married Sallie in December 1857. Thomas May and Sallie reared all children at Morris, AL. Before the civil war, he was a slave overseer, and after the war, farmed at Morris. He was a member of Farrah Masonic Lodge #8, he received the 1st degree 11 Feb 1867, 2nd degree 12 July 1867, and the 3rd degree 1 Apr 1868.
Sallie Edwards, Thomas' second wife, was the daughter of Reverend John Wesley Edwards who was born in Halifax, N.C in 1799, and Elizabeth Spradling, who was born in 1810 to William Spradling and Elizabeth Canterbuty. John Wesley Edwards was a Methodist Minister as was his son, Ransom. Thomas appears on the 1850 census in Jefferson County, AL, Age 29 married to Elizabeth 24 Female, with 3 small children, William W. age 5, Mary J, age 3, and Reuben A. age 4 1/2.
Thomas May and Sallie and children appear in the 1860 Blount County census, in 1870 they are in Jefferson County. Thomas died in 1874. He wrote many entries i
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