Letters to Home

Contributed by Michael Thomason
Palestine, Texas - December 2003

Blount County News-Dispatch
(Blount Co., Alabama)
September 6, 1888

Letter from E. P. Thompson painting a picture with words of the area surrounding Italy, Texas.

Blount County News-Dispatch
Thursday, September 5, 1889

Blount County News-Dispatch
Thursday, September 19, 1889

The letters were written by my grandfather's oldest brother who had moved to Texas to attend college. He later became a lawyer and schoolteacher. Shortly after these letters were written, the rest of the family moved to Texas, settling in Barry, Navarro County. I have yet to find out what college or institute he attended in Italy, but hope to find out one day.

E.P. (Elias Pinkney) Thomason taught school in Blount County Alabama. His school house in Alabama was burned down in 1885 and he later attended schools in Italy, Texas, furthering his education. I suppose his home was still back in Alabama until the rest of the family decided to move to Texas in Nov of 1889. Pink, as he was called, also taught school in the area around Barry, Frost, Blooming Grove, and Emmett, Texas. He met and married Francis Elizabeth Moore in Emmett. The Moores are still in the neighboorhood of Emmett to this day. Their families and ours are buried at the cemetery by the Prairie Grove Baptist Church in Emmett.

My grandfather, John Allen Thomason, was the baby of the family. He was born in 1888 in Blount County, but was in Texas with the family by the end of the following year.

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