Robertson County TN Archives Biographies.....Thomas, James W. 1868 - 
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   JAMES W. THOMAS. A busy and well-to-do physician of Cross Plains, Tennessee,

is Dr. James W. Thomas, a descendent of representative southern families, the

different lines of which have inhabited several states in this region.



   The doctor's maternal ancestry is Virginian, his grandfather, James M. Bates,

having emigrated when young to Kentucky and later removed to Canada, where he

spent the rest of his life, active in his occupation of silversmith. To Kentucky

also in early days had migrated Jesse Thomas, a farmer of extensive holdings and

a slave-owner. His son, William S. Thomas, married Anna Bates and has lived the

agricultural life during all the years of his life. William Thomas participated

in the Civil war in the Seventh Kentucky Regiment, serving in many engagements,

including the battles of Manassas and Gettysburg, in the latter of which he was

wounded. He is a Methodist and a past master Mason. On his farm property of

three hundred acres he has been very successful in his production of corn, wheat

and tobacco. He and his wife reared two sons and five daughters, four of whom

are yet living. Mrs. William Thomas, a faithful member of the Methodist church,

left earth's activities in 1888. Her husband, the father of our subject, still

enjoys the satisfactions of a ripe age.



   The sixth of the children born to William and Anna Thomas entered upon his

mundane experiences on October 4, 1877, the place of his nativity being the

paternal farm in Ballard county, Kentucky. He was given not only the advantages

of the public schools, but also those of a course in Marvin college, at Clinton,

Kentucky, from which institution he was graduated in 1899. He then entered upon

his preparation for the profession of medicine. For three terms he pursued

studies in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis. He then

transferred his study and research to the College of Medicine of the University

of Louisville. There he completed his medical courses and received his degree in

1909.



  Dr. Thomas began, his practice of his altruistic profession at the town of

Bandana, Kentucky. The year following, he settled anew at Cross Plains,

Tennessee. From that year—1910—his practice has been gratifyingly large. He

began in partnership with Dr. J. J. Covington, an old practitioner of the place.

Dr. Thomas had soon established a superior reputation, and in the occasion of

the elder physician's death, the patients of the latter transferred their

patronage to the young doctor who had been associated with him.



   The doctor's association with Bandana was an important one, not only in the

fact that it marked his initiatory practice, but also because of its importance

in the weaving of his life's romance. In that Kentucky community lives Dr. James

B. Payne, a physician of prominence. His daughter, Miss Lalie Payne, had been

wooed and won by the young doctor, the date of their marriage being January 26,

1899. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas are the parents of three children, Burgess, Nina

Saline and Mary Anne, all of whom are yet in the parental home at Cross Plains.



   The doctor and his wife are prominent in church and social life in Cross

Plains. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and he is connected

with the fraternal organizations of the Free and Accepted Masons and the Woodmen

of the World. The County Medical Society counts Dr. Thomas one of its most

valuable members.





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