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James Jasper “Jap” Thomason

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James Jasper “Jap” Thomason

Birth
Georgia, USA
Death
21 Aug 1913 (aged 72)
Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon, USA
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Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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His eldest son has a twin sister who may be here: Hattie E. Thomason.

Idaho Statesman, Boise August 21, 1913:
Nyssa- J.J. thomason died Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. He was about 73 years of age and had been ill for several months. He came here about 20 years ago from Arkansas and is survived by his second wife, two daughters and three sons. Funeral services will probably be held Thursday afternoon and the interment will be in the Nyssa cemetery.

From page 11-0 in 1991 book by Carol Jacobson (Sixth Revision 2001) entitled "John Thomason & Hannah Abercrombie of South Carolina and Georgia": In the 1860's, William Asbury Thomason and his brother Jap worked as miners in Idaho (probably shortly after the Civil War ended). When the railroad was completed from southern Missouri to Idaho, the two men responded to the advertisements for cheap land and moved their families West. In 1886, several families boarded an emigrant train in Eureka Springs, went north to St. Louis and on to the Washington Territory (near Spokane). The group arrived in Cheney on March 31, 1887.

He homesteaded in what is now Adams County, Idaho.

March 2023: Recently more information about Hannah Abercrombie's mother has come to light. Her mother may have been Nany Crumley and her grandmother may have been Hannah Mercer.
His eldest son has a twin sister who may be here: Hattie E. Thomason.

Idaho Statesman, Boise August 21, 1913:
Nyssa- J.J. thomason died Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. He was about 73 years of age and had been ill for several months. He came here about 20 years ago from Arkansas and is survived by his second wife, two daughters and three sons. Funeral services will probably be held Thursday afternoon and the interment will be in the Nyssa cemetery.

From page 11-0 in 1991 book by Carol Jacobson (Sixth Revision 2001) entitled "John Thomason & Hannah Abercrombie of South Carolina and Georgia": In the 1860's, William Asbury Thomason and his brother Jap worked as miners in Idaho (probably shortly after the Civil War ended). When the railroad was completed from southern Missouri to Idaho, the two men responded to the advertisements for cheap land and moved their families West. In 1886, several families boarded an emigrant train in Eureka Springs, went north to St. Louis and on to the Washington Territory (near Spokane). The group arrived in Cheney on March 31, 1887.

He homesteaded in what is now Adams County, Idaho.

March 2023: Recently more information about Hannah Abercrombie's mother has come to light. Her mother may have been Nany Crumley and her grandmother may have been Hannah Mercer.

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