Fieldon Fielding Thomas marriage to Eliza Gist Gest Guess research page

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Loudoun, Virginia, United States
Surnames/tags: Thomas-66253 Gist-379

This page is to do research for Fielder (Fielden) "Fielding" Thomas and Eliza Violetta Howard Gist.

Fielder Thomas appears with a variety of alternate names. William Fielding Thomas, Felden Thomas, Fieldon Thomas, Fieldes Thomas and Fielder Thomas have all been possibilities of his name.

Bear in mind that these may be different people.

Records for Eliza Violetta Howard Gist also appear with a variety of spellings. Her middle name is seen as Violet; her surname alternate spellings are Gest and Guess.

Eliza Violetta Howard Gist is managed by David Blair.

Fielder Thomas is managed by Stanley Duett.

Contents 1 Research Notes 2 Timeline 3 Sources 4 Other Sources

Research Notes

• Baber, George. “The Blairs: Outlines of a Virginia and Kentucky Family of Notable Civilians and Heroes; The True Story of President Jackson’s Famous Address to South Carolina; Old ‘Frank’ Blair as Editor of the Washington ‘Globe’; An Account of Montgomery and of Frank P. Blair, Jr.” Register of Kentucky State Historical Society 14, no. 42 (1916): 35–49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23368610.
• The Francis Preston Blair family in politics, by William Ernest Smith, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1933, Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center (https://archive.org/details/francisprestonbl00smit/page/n1/mode/2up)

Timeline

1809

We know that a lady named Violet Gest married a man named Fielden Thomas in Loudoun county, Virginia on 2 February 1809^[1]. John Littlejohn, Methodist minister^[2] performed the marriage ceremony. No vital statistics are shown in this record.

1810

There should be some type of record for Fielden Thomas for 1810; tax record, It will indicate what the household consists of.

1812

Francis Preston Blair and Fleming Trigg paid bond of 50 pounds of common money (for that time) to Franklin county, Commonwealth of Kentucky for this marriage.^[3]

In 1812, Fleming Trigg DC is the deputy clerk of Franklin County court in the Commonwealth of Kentucky when Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Gist in the year of July 21 1812 ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRV8-4NY : 1 July 2020), Violet Gest in entry for Fielden Thomas, 1809.
2. ↑ "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9XF-2C7S?i=6)
3. ↑ "Franklin, Kentucky Marriage Bonds 1815–1817, 1811–1814", database of images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2QD-3XT9 : Fri Oct 20 01:42:55 UTC 2023), Marriage Bond Entry for Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Gist, 21 July 1812.
4. ↑ "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28D-N5FM : 22 July 2021), Francis Preston Blair and Eliza Gist, 21 Jul 1812; citing Marriage, Franklin, Kentucky, United States, various county clerks and county courts, Kentucky; FHL microfilm 266,193.

Other Sources

• Loudoun county, Virginia Marriage Bonds etc. 1770-1850, Leesburg, Loudoun, Virginia. https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007579005, images 1 - 503.
  

[NOTE: https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007579005 Images 7 and 8 of this film list all the people who were authorized or bonded to perform marriages in Loudoun County, Virginia. Most ministers are listed with their denomination.]

• BABER, GEORGE. “THE BLAIRS: Outlines of a Virginia and Kentucky Family of Notable Civilians and Heroes; The True Story of President Jackson’s Famous Address to South Carolina; Old ‘Frank’ Blair as Editor of the Washington ‘Globe’; An Account of Montgomery and of Frank P. Blair, Jr.” Register of Kentucky State Historical Society 14, no. 42 (1916): 35–49. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23368610.