Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight
b. 16 December 1825, d. 30 June 1871
- Father: John Speight b. circa 1790, d. October 1825
- Mother: Matilda M. Wood b. circa 1800, d. 4 June 1871
- Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight was born on 16 December 1825 in Dallas County, Alabama, about two months after the death of her father.
- She married James A. Anderson, son of Thomas J. Anderson and Jane Harriet Kennedy, on 24 January 1842 in Dallas County, Alabama.
- Interesting that James A. Anderson's sister Jane Sophronia's husband was the brother if Minor Darius Wynne, whose daughter Margaret Elizabeth married Robert Cummings Wood, a grandson of Ashley Wood's half-brother Green Wood.
- James A. Anderson and Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Greene County, Alabama, Also in the household was William Anderson, age 50, born South Carolina.. Other members of the household included Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson.
- Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight became a widow at the 1 June 1857 death of her husband James A. Anderson.
- She married Thomas Colley Thomas, son of Theophilus C. Thomas Jr. and Elizabeth M. Colley, circa 9 November 1858 in Greene County, Alabama.
- Thomas Colley Thomas and Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Clinton, Greene County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson, James Cameron Anderson, M. Georgia V. Thomas, Matilda M. Wood, James George and Alexander Ellerbe English.
- Thomas Colley Thomas and Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Mantua, Greene County, Alabama. Other members of the household included M. Georgia V. Thomas, John Crowder Thomas and James Cameron Anderson.
- Virginia Elizabeth McCullers Speight died on 30 June 1871 at age 45 in Greene County, Alabama.
- Her husband Thomas Colley Thomas became a widower at her death.
- She was interred at Ebenezer Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Clinton, Greene County, Alabama.
- Last Edited: 7 May 2013
Family 1: James A. Anderson b. 17 November 1818, d. 1 June 1857
- Ashley Wood Spaight Anderson b. July 1849, d. between 1900 and 1910
- James Cameron Anderson+ b. 22 August 1852, d. 16 November 1932
Family 2: Thomas Colley Thomas b. 7 March 1826, d. 8 January 1894
- M. Georgia V. Thomas+ b. 12 February 1860, d. 14 June 1914
- John Crowder Thomas b. September 1862