MaMa Tom: a Life That Spanned Almost Century

MaMa Tom: A Life That Spanned Almost a Century tells the story of Sara Lula Rebecca "MaMa Tom" Jones Thomason and the generations of Jones, Thomason, and Bradley families whose lives stretched from the Carolina backcountry to the growing industrial communities around Birmingham, Alabama.Drawing on family photographs, original records, family stories, and MaMa Tom's own recorded memories, Joe E. Bradley follows a family shaped by farming, railroads, cotton mills, migration, and a remarkable tradition of faith. Along the way are stories of Fountain Inn, South Carolina; Baptist churches that served as the heart of their communities; William Thomas "Major" Jones; Herbert and Lula Thomason; and the courtship of Paul Bradley and Blanche Thomason.More than a genealogy, this is a family story-about ordinary people whose work, humor, hardships, faith, and memories carried forward from one generation to the next.