Obituary

I.L. Thomas Rites Held
Funeral services here this afternoon marked the end of a long life for Isaac L. Thomas who during his 95 years, served his county and community in activities that ranged from dut as a courier and scout in the Civil War to organizing and teaching a Sunday School.
Mr. Thomas, who was active up until he became ill a few days ago, died yesterday afternoon at the Plainview hospital. Rev. M.E. Fisher, Plainview Methodist circuit minister, and Rev. E.K. White, Methodist superintendent here, conducted the services at 3 o?clock at the Methodist church.
Making his home alone since his wife?s death in 1918 Mr. Thomas amazed his acquaintances with his activity and housekeeping ability, at the same time remaining active as a teacher in the Liberty Sunday School which he organized twenty years ago.
Born August 17, 1844, Mr. Thomas had resided on the Plains for the past 23 years, in the Liberty community the past several years.
During the Civil War he was a scout and a courier in the Confederate army under Gen. Jubal A. Early and engaged in the Shenandoah Valley campaign. He was married in 1875 to Miss Docia Parkey in Mississippi.
He had been a member of the Methodist church for 84 years and had taught a Sunday School class since 1867, starting in Tennessee. He served five years as worshipful master in the Masonic lodge of which he had been a member more than sixty years and once was district grand master.
Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. M.J. Overton, Herando, and Mrs. J.W. Bradley, Clovis, N.M.; four sons, J.C. Thomas, Jackson, Miss.; R.D. Thomas, Cornith, Miss.; C.B. Thoams, Hereford, and E.C. Thomas, Roswell, N.M. Eleven grandchildren also survive.
Burial was in the Plainview cemetery under the direction of the Roy Wood Funeral Home. (Plainview Evening Herald, January 9, 1940)