Samantha Group

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Title

Samantha Group

Description

Two horse and buggies stand in front of the Richard R. Thomson home on Tierce Patton Road in Samantha. Mr. Thomson owned land on both sides of the river. He had five sons and a daughter. Hurdis Thomson (married to Nannie Mae Kirk), James Robert Thomson (married Ruth Darman), William J. "Bill" Thomson (married Attie Bell Kimbrell), Randolph Thomson (married Gladys Booth), and Bailey (married Zelda Kimbrell). The daughter Lilia Thomson married E. L. Hendrix.

Bill and Attie Bell Thomson moved to Pickens County where they farmed near Aliceville. Their son, Bailey Thomson, was an associate professor in journalism and an advocate of constitutional reform in Alabama until his death at 54 in 2003.

Source

Jemison Van de Graaff Foundation

Contributor

Betty Slowe (Description)

Type

Photograph

Identifier

603

Coverage

Tuscaloosa County (AL)

Original Format

Photograph

Physical Dimensions

6 inches by 10 inches