My name is Carol Jean Thomason Morrow and I was born in Jacksonville, Florida. My family are from Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.

I am a member of the DAR (The Daughters of the American Revolution). My Great (4) Grandfather Captain Lewis Saxon fought in the Revolution. I have ancestors on my father's side also who fought in the Revolution and also have ancestors on both sides of my family who founght in the Civil War.

It is my hope that the information in this home page will be helpful to all the leaves of my family tree. I have tried to the best of my ability to be as accurate as is possible. If anyone has any additions or corrections they would like to make please get in touch with me.

I believe that every individual is more than birth, marriage, and death. They are a life lived and deserve to be remembered and honored. I am trying to find all of the information and photos that I possibly can about these ancestors and record for History and for the descendants of these surnames listed.

• Thomason, Durant, Buzhardt, Saxon, Family Tree (19 KB)
  

• John Roy Thomason - 15 Mar 1908 - 06 Oct 1987 (5 KB)
  This photo was made about 1934 in Jacksonville, Florida. John Roy was a talented man, he worked for Mason Lumber Company at this time and did building estimating for them, estimating buildings of over 1 million - a lot in those days. In the 2nd World War he worked for the Jacksonville Shipyard. He was very talented in working with machinery and wood working. He created a large garden in the 1 acre of land we had and there were pear trees, grape arbor, He built our backyard barbecue which had a roof over it and an oven to keep food warm with condiment cabinet in the one of the posts that held up the roof. He made a rolling table to bring food from the house which was a ways from the backyard. Oh those were the days.
• Martha Hill Saxon Buzhardt with Grandchildren (25 KB)
  Martha Hill Saxon Buzhardt with Ceylon H. Durant and Nellie Dean Durant children of Martha's daughter Hattie Medora Buzhardt and Abelard Calhoun Durant.
• George Washington Birmingham, 1809-1878 (14 KB)
  Married to Susan Tanner in 1839, together they had 8 children. Weldon Tanner Birmingham their son was married to Lucy Ann Newman and their daughter was Catherine Amanda Birmingham who was married to John Robert Thomason.
• Hattie, Amy, and Mable Buzhardt (14 KB)
  Such lovely sisters, Hattie Medora, Amy Pauline and Mable Gertrude Buzhardt - photo made approximately in 1905.
• Nellie Dean Durant, Virginia Snowbird, & Ceylon H. (31 KB)
  Nellie Dean Durant with sister on her lap Virginia Snowbird Durant and brother Ceylon H. Durant. Photo made about 1918.
• Nellie Dean Durant Wade, 1909-1999 (18 KB)
  Beautiful Nell - she was a very beautiful lady, looked a lot like Hedy Lamar a movie star in those days. Nell was the President of the Business & Professional Women's Club in the Riverside section of Jacksonville, Florida. She married George L. Wade. Mother made beautiful clothes for Aunt Nell, she loved her and I loved her. Lamar her husband adored her.
• Susan Tanner, 1818-1881 (18 KB)
  Married to George Washington Birmingham and their son was Weldon Tanner Birmingham whose daughter was Catherine Amanda Birmingham who married John Robert Thomason.
• John Robert Thomason, 1880-1927 (42 KB)
  John Robert Thomason son of James Albert Thomason & Augusta Anne Land, Grandson of John Vincent Thomason and Martha Washington Perry. Married to Catherine A. Birmingham with 3 children John Roy, Nellie Virginia and Gladys Louise Thomason. After wife died he married again to Nancy Jane Phillips and together they had two daughters, Annie Belle and Mamie Lou Thomason. Photo made about 1905.
• Hattie Durant with 1st Grandchild Carol (32 KB)
  Hattie Medora Buzhardt Durant with her first Grandchild. Photo was made in Jacksonville, Florida 1935.
• John Robert Thomason and Brothers & Sisters (19 KB)
  John Robert Thomason with brothers and sisters. Children of James Albert Thomason and Augusta Anne Land. Photo made about 1900.
• Hattie Medora Buzhardt beautiful at 21 (21 KB)
  Photo taken when Hattie Medora Buzhardt was about 21 years old that would be 1906. I remember Grandmother well and she was a very strong and an assertive woman.
• Martha Hill Saxon Buzhardt, 1850-1930 (14 KB)
  A direct descendant of Lewis Saxon who fought in the American Revolution War. She had 6 children - Hattie, Mabel, John, Amy, Francis, and Rosamond Buzhardt. She was born in Laurens, SC and lived her entire life there.
• Virginia Snowbird Durant Thomason - 1917-1975 (8 KB)
  A beautiful photo of Mother made in 1940-45. She had very thick dark long hair that she wore in beautiful brades. She was a very talented lady wrote poetry and gardened, sewed, canned fruits & vegetables, was a great cook and baked wonderfully, cared for goats and chickens. Could wring a chicken's neck in nothing flat. Once she shot two rats with one bullet - they were running from the wash house. She had 5 children and was a good mother and wife.
• Abelard Calhoun Durant (8 KB)
  Abelard Calhoun Durant at 26 a handsome well to do appearing young man in 1909 the year his first daughter Nellie Dean Durant was born.
• Carol Jean Thomason Morrow - Family Genealogist (12 KB)
  Born in 1935 in Jacksonville, Florida to John Roy Thomason and Virginia Snowbird Durant Thomason.
• Weldon Tanner Birmingham - 1846-1908 (3 KB)
  Father of Catherine Amanda Birmingham who was wife of John Robert Thomason.
• John O. Saxon maybe brother of Martha Hill Saxon (12 KB)
  A wonderful studio photo of John O. Saxon. His name is written by hand on the bottom of the photo. I think he was the brother of Grandmother Martha Hill Saxon Buzhardt. I hope someone knows.
• Richard Marion Buzhardt - 1834-1863 (14 KB)
  Fought and died in the Civil War and is buried in Virginia. Married to Nancy Ann Heffernan and together they had two children - Francis Marion Buzhardt and John William Buzhardt.
• Lucy Ann Newman, 1853-1910 (16 KB)
  Wife of Weldon T. Birmingham and mother of Catherine Amanda Birmingham who was married to John Robert Thomason.
• John J. Heffernan and Nancy A. Hayes (19 KB)
  Mother and father of Nancy Ann Heffernan who was married to Richard Marion Buzhardt who died in the Civil War. Their children Francis Marion Buzhardt and John William Buzhardt were left in their care to raise.

• Virginia Snowbird Durant - Ancestor Report (227 KB)
  Ancestor Report for Virginia Snowbird Durant Thomason - 1917-1975. Families represented are Durant, Buzhardt, Saxon, Heffernan, Rosamond, Hayes, Powell, Taylor and others.
• John Roy Thomason - 1908-1987 & His Ancestors (86 KB)
  John Roy Thomason son of John Robert Thomason and Catherine A. Birmingham, families include Land, Newman, Perry, Langley, Horton, Doster, Haralson.

Carol Jean Thomason Morrow
musseed70@yahoo.com

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