Fanny Thomas
| .... the true story of a small girl
named Fanny Thomas who lies buried in a solitary grave in
the woodland on a small hill eastward toward the sun. A
small limestone rock with the fading uneven hand-etched
letters of her name, marks the place. Fanny, the daughter
of the Jim Thomas' who lived in Thomasville, fell into a
molasses barrel and drowned on a Saturday afternoon while
her parents had gone to town. Ted Nus remembers his
mother singing hymns over her grave. ~Clayton County Register, Wednesday, August 23, 1978; pg 5 (extracted from an article titled "A walk through history at Arlington", which was about petrified remains of mastodons found near Thomasville, Sperry twp.) -- A tragic death was that of 3-year-old Fanny Thomas,
who was drowned in a barrel of molasses during the 1850s.
Her lonely grave is found in a pasture in western Clayton
County. Fanny's name, scrawled with a nail in limestone
headstone, is all that remains. ~~
Photo taken, in 1983, of Fanny Thomas' gravestone
(lower right corner), when Mary Jane Hatfield &
Tillie Ridenour visited her grave. |
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