Our
Family History

James Eugene Thurmon
July 23,
1889 - June 30, 1972
Married
Ira B Wilson
September
29,1893 - November 29,1968
James Eugene Thurmon

Mr. Puckett, Gene and Roy Gene and his brother, Ferd and
his wife

Earl, friend of Earl's and Gene

James Eugene Thurmon is buried in Oakview Memorial Park near Alamo, TN next to
his second wife, Agnes
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Ira B Wilson Thurmon
May, 1969
1962 Glendale
Glendale

1956 Mary Ruth, Ira, Melvin - Ira with Melvin's son, Scott -
Sannie, John, Ira

Ira B Wilson Thurmon is buried in Memorial Gardens near Newbern, TN
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Hattie Fostina "Mammie" Sykes Thurmond
Grave of Otha Thurmond
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The grave of my Great-Grandfather, Richard McBride Thurmond
is behind the Zion Methodist Church in Elbridge. Richard M. Thurmond is the
father of James Eugene Thurmon. Richard M. died of pneumonia in 1924. He was
born July 12, 1861 in Virginia, (during the Civil War). Buried beside him is
Mary Sykes. Mary was the mother of Great-grandmother Thurmond, (Hattie).
She lived with Great-grandmother and Great-granddaddy four several months before
she died in their home. Hattie Thurmond died of a stroke while living with her
daughter, Velma, in Dyersburg, Tennessee. She is buried in the Fairview
Cemetery in Dyersburg. Born in Gibson County, Tennessee in 1872, she lived
to be 80.
My Lineage
Great-Great Grandmother - Mary Sykes
Great Grandmother - Hattie Fostina Thurmond
Grandfather - James Eugene Thurmon
Father - Hurtle Green Thurmon
Daughter - Martha Elizabeth Thurmon Helton
Son - William Abner Helton
Child - Jaxon Ashton Helton
Melven V. Wilson was Ira B Wilson's father. He was born in
1868 and died of a heart attack at his home in Churchton, Tennessee in 1930.
Before moving to Churchton, they lived at Maxey, TN where he was an Elder in the
nearby Emmaeus Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He is buried in the Newbern,
TN Fairview Cemetery.

Mary Jane Elizabeth Wilson was Ira B Wilson's mother. She
was born in 1857 and died April 21, 1942. Her first marriage was to a Mr. Green
with whom she had 2 children, Hurtle - born in 1881, and Beulah - born in
1883. After his death, she married Melven V. Wilson and they had the following
family:
Vetra born November 11, 1889
Irma born September 29, 1891
Ira B born September 29, 1893
Sannie born August 24, 1895 (twin)
Rener born August 24, 1895 (twin)
John born April 4, 1989
Cullie born January 27, 1900
Mary Jane Wilson is buried by the side of her son, Hurtle
Green in Antioch Cemetery near Union City, Tennessee.
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