Joseph Miles Thomas ^{1 2}

   Another name for Joe was Joe Thomas.³

  General Notes:

At the time of the 1900 census, Joe was a farm laborer in Hardwick, Blount County, Alabama. When Joe registered for the WWI draft on 5 Jun 1917, he was farming in St. Clair County, Alabama. He had a wife and 5 children under 12. He claimed an exemption because of symptoms of paralysis.

Joe married Effie Pearl Early, daughter of Rubin Sanders Early and Martha Emma Rickles, in Dec 1906. (Effie Pearl Early was born on 1 Dec 1887 in Ashville, St. Clair County, Alabama, United States,⁴ died on 14 Oct 1955 in , Blount County, Alabama, United States ⁴ and was buried in Antioch Methodist Cemetery, Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama, United States ⁵.)