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Jonathan Starkie Thomas

Jonathan Starkie Thomas

Male 1853 - 1939  (86 years)


 

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Starkie Thomas Cemetery

Cadiz, Trigg, Kentucky
Find a Grave: #1884457


Date1825
File nameCemetery-Starkie Thomas (Cadiz KY).jpg
File Size240.91k
Dimensions750 x 1000
Linked toDurwood Stanley Bridges (Burial); Frieda Nell Bridges (Burial); Henrietta Gabriella Bridges (Burial); William Durwood Bridges (Burial); Willie Jefferson Coleman (Burial); Mary Magdalene Cunningham (Burial); Julia Dyer (Burial); Nora A Harris (Burial); Mason Hamilton Hughes, Jr (Burial); Bettie Jean Poe (Burial); Hattie Lee Ricks (Burial); Nancy Jane Rogers (Burial); (Infant Daughter) Sumner, (2) (Death); (Infant Son) Sumner (Burial); Benjamin Miles Sumner (Burial); Derwood Floyd Sumner (Burial); Eugene Lewis Sumner (Burial); Julia Louise Sumner (Burial); Mattie Maud Sumner (Burial); Hugh Delbert Thomas (Burial); James Douglas Thomas (Burial); James Elmer 'Elmo' Thomas (Burial); James Jasper Thomas (Burial); Jane Thomas (Burial); John Alex Thomas (Burial); John Spurlin Thomas (Burial); Jonathan Starkie Thomas (Burial); Martha Thomas; Ocie L Thomas (Burial); Samuel Ott Thomas (Burial); Starkie Thomas (Burial); Starkie William Thomas (Burial); William B Thomas (Burial); William Clyde Thomas (Burial); Gilbert Wall Wallace (Burial)

Starkie Thomas Cemetery, Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky, USA

Notes: The Starkie Thomas cemetery was established in 1825 and the earliest burials are thought to have been enslaved African-Americans owned by Starkie or his brothers. The first Thomas family members interred at the site were Starkie and Mary (Bridges) Thomas’s daughters Adeline (7 years old) in June 1838, and Peachie (6 months old) in August 1838. Generations of Starkie and Mary’s descendants have been and continue to be laid to rest at this site.

A large area within the cemetery includes an undetermined number of unmarked graves of African American slaves and their descendants. Two small modern markers designate the plot as that of “Thomas Slaves”. Family lore suggests that descendants of Thomas slaves continued to bury their dead at the cemetery for several generations following emancipation.






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