"The History of Linn County, Missouri" 1882 page 614
Biographical Sketches - Jefferson Township, and Town of Laclede.
Henry C. Lomax,
son of John and Anna (Nee Shank) Lomax, was born in Brown county, Illinois, September 21, 1844. In 1852 his parents removed to Adams county, Illinois. Mr. Lomax lived on a farm until fourteen years of age, and then began clerking in a store at Clayton, Adams county, Illinois, remaining there for one year. Thereafter he accompanied his parents to Laclede, Missouri, where his father engaged in merchandizing, he clerking in the store in summer and attending school in winter. At the breaking out of the war his father enlisted in the Twelfth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Shilo, and held as such several months, when he was exchanged. He assisted in raising the first Alabama cavalry regiment, and was a captain in the same until the close of the war, his death occurring at Laclede in 1877. Mr. Henry Lomax accepted a position as clerk for Mr. J.F. Pershing, sutler of the Twelfth Regiment, during 1962-63, and in 1864. When the Sixty-eighth Regiment Missouri State Militia was organized he enlisted in the same, and continued with it until it was mustered out. He then clerked for Mr. Pershing until 1871, since which time he has followed farming and stock-raising. In these pursuits he has succeeded admirably. September 26, 1866, Mr. Lomax was married to Miss Matilda Ann Turner, daughter of Matthew and Lucinda (nee Warrick) Turner, of Linn county, Missouri. Her father was a native of Kentucky, and her mother was born in Virginia. By this marriage there were five children, four of whom are living and named as follows: Edwin M., Jay C., Luanna, and John T. James died at about the age of two years. Mr. and Mrs. Lomax have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1866, and have been active and faithful Christians, doing much good.



"Genealogical and Historical Sketches of the Lomax Family" by Joseph Lomax, Grand Rapids Michigan, Published by The Rooku8 Printing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1894, page 204
1844. HENRY C.LOMAX, son of Anna Shank and her husband Capt. John Lomax, was born in Brown Co., Ill., Sept. 21, A.D. 1844, and married Matilda A. Turner, Sept. 26, A.D. 1866. Address, La Clede, Linn Co., Mo.
Their chidlren are--
Edwin M. Lomax, born Sept. 30, A.D. 1867.
Jay C. Lomax, born Aug. 15, A.D. 1869.
Luanna Lomax, born May 16, A.D. 1873.
John T. Lomax, born Oct. 3, A.D. 1877.
Joseph Fife Lomax, born May 23, A.D. 1879; died Nov. 22, A.D. 1881.
Hallie W. Lomax, born May 14, A.D. 1882. The son Edwin M. is employed in a bank in the city of St. Louis, Mo. The father descends from Thomas Lomax, the Englishman, who settled in Sevier Co., Tenn.


"Compendium of History and Biography of Linn County, Missouri" 1912 page 377-380
LOMAX & STANDLY
This much esteemed banking firm, whose enterprise and progressiveness have done a great deal of good in and around Laclede in furthering the development and improvement of the locality, and whose banking institution is a source of just pride to the people of Jefferson township, has the reputation of being among the most progressive concerns in Linn county, and its members are everywhere reckoned in the number of the county's best, most useful and most representative citizens. Their local patriotism is of a high order, and they give expression to it in energetic and effective support of every worthy enterprise undertaken for the good of the township and county in which they conduct their helpful operations. Their bank, which is a private institution, was founded in 1895. It has a captial stock of $5,000 and a surplus of $10,000. Dr. Z.T. Standly is its president, H.C. Lomax, his partner in the firm, is cashier, and the son of the latter, H.W. Lomax, is the assistant cashier. They are all excellent business men, and they carry on their business, which icludes all features of general banking, in a manner very profitable to the bank and highly beneficial to the community.
H.C. LOMAX, the cashier and controlling spirit of the bnak, belongs to a family of bankers, special aptitude for this form of commercial enterprise seeming to have been given to several of its members, and they have found good opportunities for exercising their endowments in this respect. He was born in Adams county, Illinois, on September 21, 1844, and is a son of John and Anna (Shank) Lomax, the former born in Sevier county, Tennessee, in February, 1812, and the latter in Virginia on June 16, 1819. They were married in 1835, and had thirteen children. The father died in February, 1877, and the mother Anna Lomax, 1902.
Of the thirteen children born of their union eight are living: W.M., who resides at Laclede; Melinda J., who is the widow of the late J. C. Carothers; J.W., who also has his home at Laclede; Hattie, who is now the wife of Gilman Reed of Kansas City, Kansas; Laura L., who married W.C. Love and is living with him at Long Beach, California; George N., who dwells in Denison, Texas; Elizabeth, who is the wife of Horace Alexander, also a resident of Denison, Texas; and H.C., the Laclede banker who is the immediate subject of this writing.
In 1835, about the time of his marriage, the father moved from his native state to Preble county, Ohio, and the next year came to Missouri. But he did not remain long in this state at that time. In 1837 he moved across the Mississippi into Adams county, Illinois, where he remained until 1859. In that year he returned to Missouri, and was variously occupied here until the beginning of the Civil War. He enlisted soon after hostilities began in the Eighteenth Missouri Infantry, on the Union side of the great sectional conflict, and remained in active service with his regiment until the fall of 1862. He was then taken prisoner by a band of guerrillas while recruiting a company in Tennessee. After six or eight months of captivity, during which he suffered many hardships and privations, he was exchanged in June, 1863. But his patriotic desire to aid in the defense of his country was not yet sated, and it inspired him to a new engagement in the army.
He enlisted again, becoming captain of Company M, of the First Alabama Volunteer Union Cavalry, with which he remained until after the close of the war, during the latter part of which he was provost marshal of nothern Alabama. He was also with Sherman in his historic march to the sea, and took part in the battle of Nashville and many other engagements. He was mustered out of the service in 1865, and immediately returned to his farm in this county in the vicinity of Laclede. He cultivated this farm, until 1871, then opened a grocery store in Laclede, which he conducted until his death six years later at the age of sixty-five.
H.C. Lomax came with his parents to Linn county and Laclede in 1859. He was then fifteen years old, and after completing his education here, found employment in a general merchandising establishment, with which he was connected until 1870. During the next twenty-five years he was engaged in general farming, then, in 1895, bought the banking business which he and Mr. Standly have ever since been carrying on. In 1897 Mr. Lomax gave up his farming operations and since then he has devoted his time and attention to the affairs of the bank. He was its president in 1895 and 1896, and in 1897 accepted the cashiership, which he has held continously from then to the present time (1912), and the institution has flourished under his management.
During the Civil War he also had some experience in the military service as a member of the provisional militia under Captain Holland. On September 26, 1876, he was married to Miss Matilda A. Turner, and by this union he has become the father of six children, four of whom are living. They are: E.M. Lomax, president of the Linn county Bank in Brookfield, a sketch of whose life will be found in this work; J.C., who is prominent in the abstracting and loan business at Princeton; John T., who is president of the Farmers State Guaranteed Bank of San Benito, Texas; and H. W., who has already been mentioned as the asistant cashier of his father's bank.
The mother of these children died on July 2, 1894, and on March 18, 1896, the father contracted a second marriage in which he was united with Mrs. Betty L. (Watson) Heryford, the widow of the late Walter Heryford of Hale, Missouri. Mr. Lomax is considered a leading citizen of Linn county, and he well deserves this distinction. For there has not been for years a project for the benefit of the county or the betterment of its residents in the promotion of which he has not been a leading factor. In business, in public affairs and in social life he stands high in the regard of the people and enjoys their confidence in full measure. His life has been open and servicable among them, and they have found a great deal in it to commend.
Mr. Lomax has held his church membership at Laclede for 46 years. He has received his mail there since 1859 and is the oldest countinuous voter in the township.


"Thomas Lomax And His Descendants" by John B. Lomax, 6 Russell Court, Menlo Park, California 94025, 1995, page 44-45
FIFTH GENERATION
20. Thomas Henry5 Lomax (John4, Thomas3, Theophilus2, Thomas1)43. Born,
21 September 1844, in Brown Co., IL. Died, 24 September 1929, in Linn Co., MO. Burial: 1929, in Laclede Cemetery, Linn Co., MO. Census: 1850, at age 6, Brown Co., IL. Census: 1900, in Linn Co., MO.
"In 1852 his parents removed to Adams county, Illinois. Mr. Lomax lived on a farm until fourteen years of age, and then began clerking in a store at Clayton, Admas county, Illinois, remaining there for one year. Thereafter he accompanied his parents to Laclede, Missouri, where his father engaged in merchandising, he clerking in the store in summer and attending school in winter.
Mr. Henry Lomax accepted a position as clerk for Mr. J.F. Pershing, sutler of the Twelfth Regiment, during 1862-1863 and in 1864. When the Sixty-eighth Regiment Missouri State Militia was organized he enlisted in the same, and continued with it until mustered out. He then clerked for Mr. Pershing until 1871, since which time he has followed farming and stock raising." [1882 History of Linn County]
"Lomax & Standly Bank was founded in 1895. Dr. Z.T. Standly is its president, H.C. Lomax, his partner in the firm, is cashier, and the son of the latter, H.W. Lomax, is the assistant cashier. The bank as a capital stock of $5,000 and a surplus of $10,000." [1912 History of Linn County]
"Henry C. Lomax, 85, president of the Lomax & Standly Bank died at his home here today. He was born in Illinois, and came here with his parents in 1859. His first business position here was as clerk for J.F. Pershing during the Civil War. He enlisted in the Missouri state miitia, and served until mustered out. After the war he was assistant postmaster under Mr. Pershing, father of Gen. John J. Pershing. He is survived by the widow of a second marriage, and four sons, Ed M. Lomax of Brookfield, Jay C. Lomax of Princeton, Mo., John T. Lomax of San Benito, Tex., and H.W. Lomax of Laclede. He has been in the banking business thirty years." [Laclede Blade, 9/24/1929]
He married54, first, Matilda Ann turner54, daughter of Matthew Turner and Lucinda B. Warwick, 26 September 1866, in Linn Co., MO45. Born, 6 December 1848, in MO. Died, 21 July 1894 51. Burial: 1894, in Laclede Cemetery, Linn Co., MO. Census: 1880, at age 31, Linn Co., MO. She died as a result of tuberculosis. [Laclede Blade, 7/28/1894] Children:
68 i. Edward M.6 Lomax.
69 ii. Jay C. Lomax.
iii. Luanna (Lula) Lomax54. Born, 16 May 1873, in MO. Died, 31 October 1893. She died of tuberculosis. Her tombstone gives her name as Lulu and dates as 1873-1893.
70. iv. John Turner Lomax.
v. Jams Fife Lomax54. Born, 23 May 1879, in MO. Died, 22 November 1881 51. Burial in Laclede Cemetery, Linn Co., MO.
71. vi. Henry (Hal) Warwick Lomax.

He married, second, Betty L. Watson Heryford12, 18 March 1896. Born, June 1863, in MO. Census: 1900, in Laclede, Linn Co., MO. She was the widow of Walter Heryford prior to her marriage to Henry.

43 "History of Linn County, Missouri, 1882."
45 Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather. "Linn County, Missouri, Marriage Records."
51 Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather. "Linn County, Missouri, Marriage Records."
54 Lomax, Joseph, 204.