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James Monroe Toms

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James Monroe Toms

Birth
Taylor, Columbia County, Arkansas, USA
Death
1916 (aged 56–57)
Texas, USA
Burial
Palmer, Ellis County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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JAMES MONROE TOMS OR MONROE WAS BORN TO EDWARD H TOMS AND POLLY A TWITTY
death date unknown at present , when his wife died in 1930 she was a widow..
James monroe Toms was married to mary elizabth "molly" walker. he married molly walker on aug 6 1888 in nacodoghes , texas .
they had 7 children one of which is my grandfather james elmer toms..
MOLLY WALKER WAS THE AUNT TO CLYDE BARROW OF BONNIE AND CLYDE
IT HAS BEEN SAID BY ALL THE OLDER FAMILY MEMBERS THAT JAMES "MONROE" TOMS WAS BURIED HERE IN PALMER TEXAS AT THIS CEMETERY , I HAVE TALKED TO THE PROPRIATOR AND THERE IS NO RECORD OF A BURIAL OR CREMATION AT THIS FACILITY,SO I AM KEEPING THIS AS HIS BURRIAL SPOT UNTIL I CAN FIND HIS EXACT RESTING PLACE IF AT ALL I CAN. AT THE TIME OF HIS WIFES DEATH IN 1930 SHE WAS LISTED BY HER SON AS A WIDOW SO , HE WAS DEAD BEFORE 1930 AT LEAST .,,,,James Monroe Toms' son, Willie Lee Toms, said on 22 March 1977 that his father died in 1916 in Palmer, Ellis County, TX, of emphysema. He added that his mother, Mary Elizabeth Walker, is not buried with her estranged husband.
JAMES MONROE TOMS OR MONROE WAS BORN TO EDWARD H TOMS AND POLLY A TWITTY
death date unknown at present , when his wife died in 1930 she was a widow..
James monroe Toms was married to mary elizabth "molly" walker. he married molly walker on aug 6 1888 in nacodoghes , texas .
they had 7 children one of which is my grandfather james elmer toms..
MOLLY WALKER WAS THE AUNT TO CLYDE BARROW OF BONNIE AND CLYDE
IT HAS BEEN SAID BY ALL THE OLDER FAMILY MEMBERS THAT JAMES "MONROE" TOMS WAS BURIED HERE IN PALMER TEXAS AT THIS CEMETERY , I HAVE TALKED TO THE PROPRIATOR AND THERE IS NO RECORD OF A BURIAL OR CREMATION AT THIS FACILITY,SO I AM KEEPING THIS AS HIS BURRIAL SPOT UNTIL I CAN FIND HIS EXACT RESTING PLACE IF AT ALL I CAN. AT THE TIME OF HIS WIFES DEATH IN 1930 SHE WAS LISTED BY HER SON AS A WIDOW SO , HE WAS DEAD BEFORE 1930 AT LEAST .,,,,James Monroe Toms' son, Willie Lee Toms, said on 22 March 1977 that his father died in 1916 in Palmer, Ellis County, TX, of emphysema. He added that his mother, Mary Elizabeth Walker, is not buried with her estranged husband.

Gravesite Details

Died of emphysema; son of Edward H. Toms and Polly Twitty; husband of Mary Elizabeth "Mollie" Walker, whose sister, Cumie, was the mother of Clyde and Buck Barrow



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