Thomas Winfrey Oliver

b. October 1873, d. 31 December 1922
  • Thomas Winfrey Oliver was born in October 1873 in Montgomery County, Alabama.
  • Thomas Winfrey Oliver and Mary Eliza Brown appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Walkers Beat, Montgomery County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Thomas Winfrey Oliver, Eliza Dixon Hall. Also in the household was niece Sallie Oliver, age 15, whose origins are not yet known. It appears that Eliza Dixon Hall Brown also is enumerated in Robinson Springs, Elmore County, as a boarder in the household of Henry C. Horton, widower of Eliza's deceased niece Sallie Jackson Horton, daughter of Emma Bolling Hall Jackson.
  • He married Fannie Ledyard, daughter of William Falconer Ledyard and Mary M. Gilmer, circa 1893.
  • Thomas Winfrey Oliver and Fannie Ledyard appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Walkers Beat, Montgomery County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Thomas Winfrey Oliver, Mary Ledyard Oliver and Fannie Falconer Oliver.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1900 census.
  • Thomas Winfrey Oliver died on 31 December 1922 at age 49 in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • His wife Fannie Ledyard became a widow at his death.
  • He was interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.
  • The following appeared on 31 December 1922 in The Montgomery Advertiser: Thomas W. Oliver, well-known Montgomery county planter, and former representative in the state legislature from Montgomery county, died this morning at 2:15 o'clock at a local hospital. Mr. Oliver was 48 years old and had been ill for some time. He had been at the hospital for about two weeks.
         Mr. Oliver has lived for practically all his life at his large plantation on the Mt. Meigs road, about nine miles from Montgomery.
         Mr. Oliver was born in October, 1873, at Mitylene, Montgomery county. He was educated in the county and city schools of Montgomery and at the Alabama Polytecnic Institute. Mr. Oliver represented Montgomery county in the house of representatives during the 1919 session of the legislature.
         Surviving Mr. Oliver are his widow, Mrs. Fannie Leyard Oliver, and six children, Mrs. James Pittman, of Atlanta, Mrs. A. J. McLemore, of Montgomery, Misses Lucy and Laura Oliver and Winfrey and William Oliver.
         Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
  • Last Edited: 25 Feb 2012

Family: Fannie Ledyard b. March 1874, d. 8 January 1959