Hubert Jackson "Tige" Thomas
Hubert Jackson “Tige” Thomas was born on August 14, 1909 in Trigg County, Kentucky. He was the second of six children of Lucian M. Thomas and Inez B. Crews Thomas. His father Lucian, was a farmer and a native of Trigg County and Inez was also a native of Trigg County and had taught school during the early 1900s. Hubert was a descendant of Starkie Thomas. Hubert’s siblings were John Alex Thomas, born in 1907 and married Mary Louise Sumner; Homer Blane Thomas, born in 1911 and married Beulah Louise Bridges; Mary Julia Thomas, born in 1914 and married Alvin Arthur Pfermann; William Boyd Thomas, born in 1917 and married Geneva Simmons and then married Eunice Grace Thomas; and Maurice Alton Thomas, born in 1923 and married Stella Mae Gray.
Hubert grew up in the Oak Grove community of Trigg County. He farmed with his father and brothers on the family farm on land which had been in the Thomas family since the early 1800s when the family first settled in Trigg County.
On December 25, 1933, Hubert married Vada Helena Wallace. Vada was born on November 24, 1913 in Dover, Tennessee, the daughter of Henry Austin Wallace and Sarah Elizabeth Lancaster Wallace. Her parents were both natives of Stewart County, Tennessee where her father had worked as a farmer. Hubert and Vada were the parents of six children: Carolyn Sue Thomas was born in 1934 and only lived one day; Billie Joe Thomas was born in 1935 and married Carolyn Raquel Williams; triplets Andrew Thomas was born in 1937 and married Frances Carol Bridges; Bruce Thomas, born in 1937 and married Joyce Ann P’Pool; Charles Thomas, born in 1937 and married Martha Ann Myers and then married Clara Ellen McKinney; and Dennis Glynn Thomas, born in 1944 and married Linda Dale Hancock.
Hubert and Vada left the farm in 1937 and moved with their family to Detroit, Michigan. There he worked in an automobile dealership where he was trained in auto body repair. He worked in a defense plant during World War II. After the war, Hubert and his family moved back to Trigg County and using the talents he learned in Detroit, opened his own business, the Thomas Body Shop, which was located near the west city limits of Cadiz. In 1955, Hubert built a new body shop on his property located about five miles west of Cadiz. He operated the body shop in this location until his health failed in 1965 and he retired from the business. At that time, he turned over operation of the business to his son, Charles. After her sons were grown, Vada worked as a practical nurse at the Shady Lawn Nursing Home in Cadiz and as a private duty nurse at Trigg County Hospital.
On January 2, 1967, Hubert died at his home outside of Cadiz at the age of 57. He was buried in the Lucian Thomas Family Cemetery in Trigg County. Vada died on October 22, 1997 at the age of 83 in the Trigg County Hospital. She was buried in the Lucian Thomas Family Cemetery next to her husband.
Vada Thomas with her five sons
Young Hubert with his older brother John Alex
Hubert and Vada tombstone
LINEAGE: (Hubert Jackson “Tige” Thomas was the son of Lucian M. and Inez B. Crews Thomas and the grandson of Jonathan Starkie and Julia Dyer Thomas. Jonathan was the third child of William Bridges and Nancy Jane Rogers Thomas. William was the first child of Starkie and Mary Bridges Thomas. Starkie was the fourth child of James and Mary Standly Thomas.)
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