Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885
Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.
Graves Co.

DR. J.W. THOMAS was born September 14, 1854, in Warren County, Mo., and 
is a son of John W. and A. (Camp) Thomas.  The father was born in 
Warren County, Ky., and died in 1854.  The mother died in 1881 at the 
age of sixty.  Dr. Thomas was reared in Missouri and in 1870 went to 
Lexington, Ky., where he attended the university for one year, after 
which he went to St. Louis, and clerked in a store in that city until
1875, when he came to Mayfield and began the study of medicine under the
preceptorship of Dr. R.H. Fristoe.  After two years of study he returned
to St. Louis, and attended the medical college there for one term;
thence went to Nashville, where he attended the medical college and
graduated in 1878 with the highest honors of the class, and for his
proficiency in all the branches taught in the college was presented 
with a fine gold medal.  After completing his studies he came to Graves
County, since which time he has practiced his profession with marked
success, and has resided in Mayfield since 1881.  Dr. Thomas was married
in 1878 to Miss Fannie A. Carney, of Graves County, by whom he has two
children.  Dr. and Mrs. Thomas are members of the Christian Church.

Thomas Camp Fristoe Carney  
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Warren-MO Warren-KY Lexington-Fayette-KY 

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