Harry
Lee
Thomason
Jr.
Born in Galax, Virginia, United States
Ancestors 
Son of Harry Lee Thomason Sr.
and Elsie Ruth Bond
Brother of
Frederick Thomason Sr.
Husband of
Diana S (Salter) Barnes
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Janice Lucille (Justice) Thompson
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Father of
Harry Lee Thomason III and [private daughter (1960s - unknown)]
Died
at age 62
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Jan 2023
This page has been accessed 41 times.
Biography
Harry Jr. was born in 1943. He was the son of Harry Thomason and Elsie Bond. He passed away in 2006.
2023-01-01 Harry Lee Thomason, Jr. and Diana S. Salter Barnes have two granddaughters, sisters, both are school teachers on the Native American Reservation(s) in Oklahoma.[1]
The Machine Gun in the Corner
George Thomas Bond served in World War I. Afterwards back in civilian life, he was a farmer and subsequently a welder at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia. He was forced to take disability because he got lead poisoning as a welder at the shipyard.
Back in the 1950s, at my grandfather George Thomas "Big Jimmy" Bond's house in Portsmouth, Virginia, there was a WWII Japanese machine gun standing in the corner of the living room. (Today, Guam is a huge Navy firing range.)
Note: Grandfather "Big Jimmy" Bond's house was the caretaker's house at the Jewish Cemetery in Portsmouth. Grandfather "Big Jimmy" Bond was the cemetery caretaker and grave digger. Grandfather "Big Jimmy" Bond lived in that house until he died of gangrene. He had cut his foot with a push lawnmower and gangrene set in.
I was a small child back then in the 1950's. The machine gun was very heavy. It was like a heavy steel barbell standing in the corner.
My Thomason first cousins grew-up on the island of Guam, in the Pacific Ocean. Their father was a Navy demolitions diver (a frog-man). This was before the Navy Seals, but he was just like today's Navy Seals.
My cousin Harry Jr. Thomason (a teenager) found this Japanese machine gun in a cave on Guam. Harry Jr. and his father sent this machine gun back to the USA in parts, back to my grandfather Bond's house.
I was told by my cousin Fred Thomason, that the machine gun disappeared when my cousin Harry Jr. Thomason passed away.
Sources
- ↑ Firsthand information
- Firsthand information.
Is Harry your relative? Please don't go away!
Login to collaborate or comment, or
contact
the profile manager, or
ask our community of genealogists a question.
Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. Paternal line Y-chromosome DNA test-takers:
- Frederick Thomason
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup I-FGC41738, FTDNA kit #993573
- Richard (Jordan) J :
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup V25, FTDNA kit #950186, MitoYDNA ID T17083 [compare]
-
50.00%
100.00%
Frederick Thomason :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch BN7625483 [compare], FTDNA kit #993573
-
~12.50%
50.00%
Richard (Jordan) J :
23andMe, GEDmatch UK7091743 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch UC4429921 [compare], Ancestry member jordanrt
Comments
Leave a message for others who see this profile.
There are no comments yet.
Login to post a comment.
Featured Asian and Pacific Islander connections: Harry is 28 degrees from 今上 天皇, 25 degrees from Adrienne Clarkson, 26 degrees from Dwight Heine, 28 degrees from Dwayne Johnson, 22 degrees from Tupua Tamasese Lealofioaana, 20 degrees from Stacey Milbern, 24 degrees from Sono Osato, 33 degrees from 乾隆 愛新覺羅, 21 degrees from Ravi Shankar, 28 degrees from Taika Waititi, 27 degrees from Penny Wong and 17 degrees from Chang Bunker on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.