Fannie Brevard Goree

Fannie Brevard Goree

Fannie Brevard Goree Thomas, c1888-
Heritage House Museum, Orange, Texas (Collection: Rescuing Texs History, 2007)
Portal to Texas History, University of North Texas Libraries

• Father: Langston James Goree Jr. b. 25 January 1841, d. 8 October 1887
• Mother: Martha Frances P. Wood b. 18 January 1853, d. 22 May 1912

• Fannie Brevard Goree was born on 8 July 1887 in Texas.
• Martha Frances P. Wood appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Navasota, Grimes County, Texas. Other members of the household included Fannie Brevard Goree, Sue Willie Goree, Mary LeGrand Goree and Langston Goree Wood.
• A photographic portrait was made in Navasota (by Wade) of Fannie Wood Goree and her children and grandchildren, about 1905.
• Martha Frances P. Wood appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Navasota, Grimes County, Texas, enumerated next to her nephew Solomon William Wood.. Other members of the household included Fannie Brevard Goree.
• She was a kindergarten teacher, according to the 1910 census.
• She married William Rufus Thomas, son of Jessie G. Thomas and Amelia F. Dawson, on 10 June 1913 in Grimes County, Texas.
• William Rufus Thomas registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Groesbeck, Limestone County, Texas, while living with his wife in Kosse, and employed there as a company manager.
• William Rufus Thomas and Fannie Brevard Goree appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Kosse, Limestone County, Texas. Other members of the household included Frances L. Thomas and Jessie Goree Thomas.
• William Rufus Thomas and Fannie Brevard Goree appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, at Banks Street. Other members of the household included Frances L. Thomas, Jessie Goree Thomas and William Rufus Thomas Jr.
• William Rufus Thomas and Fannie Brevard Goree appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, at 806 East 28th. Other members of the household included William Rufus Thomas Jr. The family was living in the same house in 1935.
• She officially witnessed the death of William Rufus Thomas on 26 July 1945 at 806 East 28th Street in Bryan, Brazos County, Texas; at his residence.
• Fannie Brevard Goree became a widow at the 26 July 1945 death of her husband William Rufus Thomas.
• Fannie Brevard Goree died on 18 December 1979 at age 92 in Brazos County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 17 Oct 2012

• Charts: Descendants of ABERCROMBIE Charles & Edwina Malinda "Dicey" Booth, Descendants of LeGRAND John & Margaret Chambers, Descendants of WOOD William & Lydia Ballentine