Marshall County AlArchives Photo Group.....MADDOX -Thurmon Beamon And Sarah Frances(Evans)Maddox Family- C.1899 1899 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LARRY C.. KNOWLES http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00012.html#0002854 July 19, 2006, 1:49 am Source: Mrs. Betty D. Gudat, San Antonio, Texas Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/marshall/photos/maddoxth3593gph.jpg Image file size: 79.8 Kb Thurmon Beamon and Sarah Frances(Evans)Maddox Family- c.1899 Thurmon Beamon Maddox was born in Butts Co., GA on January 9, 1858. He was the youngest son of David and Rebecca L.(Hunt?)Maddox. He was listed as “Beman”-age 12, on their 1870 Butts Co. census. On December 17, 1877 in Butts Co., “Beaman” Maddox married Martha Jane Evans, daughter of James Marion and Sara Frances (Willard)Evans. On the 1880 Butts Co. census, Martha was inexplicably listed as “Sarah”-age 21, with “Beamon”-age 22, and son, David Carlton Maddox-age 1- (born August 28. 1878). [Was Martha’s sister Sarah visiting the day of the census, and her name mistakenly entered by the census-taker?] Beamon would later marry sister Sarah Frances Evans in Marshall Co., AL. Shortly after the census, Beamon and Martha J. Maddox moved to Alabama. Second son, Monroe Dolphus Maddox, was born near Guntersville, AL, March 6, 1881. Other children followed at regular intervals-birth locations uncertain, but all apparently within Marshall Co.: Frances Rebecca, March 19, 1883; William Homer, Sept. 6, 1885; Eugenia Gertrude, August 6, 1887; Georgia Mae, August 21, 1889; and John H., August 22, 1891. Mother, Martha Jane Maddox, died May 23, 1893. On February 3, 1895, father, Thurmon Beamon Maddox married Sarah Frances Evans. Descendants outside of Georgia seemed to use his first name, Thurmon(various spellings)-while his Georgia kin seemed to prefer Beamon. His wives-perhaps- liked that name better. Beamon and 2nd wife, Sarah Frances’ first child, James Christopher, was born October 21, 1895. Son, Joseph Burl was born, August 22, 1897, and daughter Minnie Myrtle was born, December 19, 1900. [Myrtle’s stated birth date conflicts with the 1900 Marshall Co. AL census, which shows her born earlier in the year]. The Maddox family was then listed in Oleander, AL, in the 12th district. Sarah Frances Maddox died August 5, 1902. Stepdaughter(and niece)Frances Rebecca Maddox married at Union Grove, AL on January 8, 1903. Twice widowed, and perhaps needing help with his younger children, Beamon Maddox had been against the marriage. Family lore says that when he learned that her suitor was enroute from Texas, he carried the family into seclusion in the nearby hills. Undeterred, the young man, William Noah Daniel, waited him out, and when the family returned, soon came for “Fannie”. Shortly after their marriage, the young couple left for Texas. It was said that Beamon asked a third Evans sister to marry him, but was turned down! Sometime thereafter, he decided to return to Butts Co., GA where he had several siblings, and other family members. The Turmon B. Maddox family is shown on the 1910 Butts Co., GA census(on Fincherville Rd.). He had built, or bought, a large house on the eastside of the road, just south of Jack Maddox Bridge Rd.(a road named for a nephew). His house stood until about twenty years ago, when it was demolished for a new home on the same site. In his later years, “brother Beamon”(as sister Lanie called him)kept his mule “Bad-Eye” in a small barn, or shed, just across the road from his house. In good weather he often visited Lanie(wife of Oscar B. Knowles)a mile down the road to the south. My father, Bernard F. Knowles, said that Uncle Beamon never put both legs in his buggy, letting one foot dangle or rest on the step, and that he always tied his mule to the small pecan tree along the Knowles’ driveway. T. B.(Thurmon Beamon)Maddox, age 70, died October 6, 1928. He is buried near three brothers and his parents, in Sardis Baptist Church cemetery, on Keys Ferry Road in Henry Co., GA. [At least four of his children; two more brothers, and three sisters, as well as numerous nieces & nephews are also buried at Sardis] His wives-sisters, Martha Jane and Sarah Frances, are buried beside each other in Union Grove Baptist Church cemetery, in Marshall Co., AL. Larry C. Knowles---July 19, 2006 [see photo details below] T. B. Maddox family members identified in the linked photo are as follows: Top row(left to right): Monroe D., b. 1881; William H., b. 1885; Frances R., b.1883; and E. Gertrude, b. 1887 Bottom row(left to right): John H., b.1891; Turmon B. Maddox(on lap-James C., b. 1895); Sarah F. Maddox(on lap-Joseph B., b.1897)-and, Georgia M., b. 1889. This family photo accounts for all known children except David C., b.1878(who may have been married by this date)-and the youngest child, daughter Minnie Myrtle, who was born after the photo was made. The two “lap” children, and Minnie Myrtle are the children of Sarah Frances Maddox. The older children are her stepchildren; the children of her sister, Martha J. Maddox-and as such, are also her nieces and nephews! [see "Additional Comments" below] Additional Comments: Many thanks to descendants of Frances Rebecca(Maddox)Daniel; Mrs. Betty D. Gudat, and her aunt, Lorayne D. Cochran-both of San Antonio, Texas. They provided this great family portrait, as well as most of the facts on the T. B. Maddox’s “families”, and interesting comment on his time in Alabama. Look for other possible Maddox family photos & info on this site. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/marshall/photos/maddoxth3593gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 6.0 Kb