Joshua Allen Thomason

b. 10 November 1810, d. 8 May 1894
  • Joshua Allen Thomason was born on 10 November 1810 in Watkinsville, Oconee County, Georgia.
  • He married Emily Jane Fisher, daughter of William Phillips Fisher and Martha White, on 28 October 1841 in Lowndes County, Alabama, with William Rice officiating.
  • Joshua Allen Thomason and Emily Jane Fisher appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Lowndes County, Alabama, and also overseer James L. Orson.. Other members of the household included Mary Hendon Thomason, William Fisher Thomason, Laura James Thomason, Susan P. White and John M. White.
  • He was a planter, according to the 1850 census.
  • The following appeared on 3 October 1851 in the Tri-Weekly Journal (from an account of the Cuba campaign of the Spanish-American War, published in the Philadelphia Inquirer): Capt. Robert Ellis owed his life to young Thomason, (a son of Dr. James Thomason of Summerfield, Dallas county) who carried him in his arms from Las Posas to a place of samety, when they left the town, otherwise, his fate would have been that of the other wounded, who were butchered in their beds. . . .
  • Joshua Allen Thomason and Emily Jane Fisher appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, and also in the household overseer B. F. Carte and well digger Jacob Gore.. Other members of the household included Mary Hendon Thomason, Sallie T. Thomason, Joshua Ella Thomason, Joshua Allen Thomason Jr., Emily Fisher Thomason, John M. White and Susan P. White.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1860 census.
  • The following appeared on 22 March 1866 in Flake's Daily Bulletin: "We noticed a detachment of Federal soldiers in town on Tuesday, apparently fixing up quarters in the uncompleted courthouse; and heard afterwards they were ordered to remain here till after the session of the District Court, which commences on Monday next, shall close. This movement is not made without a motive. Previous to the last Court, such a move was strongly spoken of, but finally dropped, as being unnecessarily obnoxious to the citizens. We have, however, heard nothing said of the present order, good or bad. -- On the same day on which they came, we heard of a freedman being shot in the evening, for insolence to the agent on Dr. Thomason's plantation. We hope the arrival of troops was not the cause of the poor fellow's sudden death; nor of his disobedience of the rules of the plantation; but it would make no difference what we might say, or what our opinion might be; the general impression will be that the arrival of troops was the primary cause of the sad catastrophe. We understand the agent left soon afterwards, so that no investigation can be had at this time, unless he should be arrested. We believe he has been overseeing for the doctor some five or six years, and an ill word we never heard spoken of him. The provocation must certainly have been strong, to have caused him so far to forget himself.-- But it matters not to anticipate; another of Ham's sons is at rest, owing to the grand philanthropy of the nineteenth century, which seeks solely to counteract the decree issued some five thousand and odd years ago -- 'cursed be Canaan (the son of Ham); a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.' /P/ P.S. We have since learned that the freedman was still alive on yesterday." --Huntsville Item, March 12. /P/ And yet we are blamed for telling you the earnest truth, that we never can get our representatives into Congress while these things continue.
  • Joshua Allen Thomason became a widower at the 1889 death of his wife Emily Jane Fisher.
  • Joshua Allen Thomason died on 8 May 1894 at age 83 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.
  • He was interred at Sam Houston Memorial Cemetery, Huntsville, Walker County, Texas.
  • For additional biographical information, see The Handbook of Texas Online.
  • Last Edited: 1 Nov 2011

Family: Emily Jane Fisher b. circa 1823, d. 1889