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Thomas Allen Thomas was born on September 21, 1881 in Saline County, Arkansas, south of Little Rock, Arkansas. He was the son of William Albert Thomas and Laura Elizabeth Lansdale. William Albert owned a sawmill and due to the recession of 1890, he was forced to close the sawmill. The family moved to Horatio, Sevier, Arkansas, where Laura Elizabeth’s sister, Mattie Lansdale Slaton lived. Laura Elizabeth died on May 18, 1899 and is buried in the Horatio Cemetery, at Horatio, Arkansas. Her grave was unmarked until 1998, when some of the Thomas descendants had a memorial stone placed in the cemetery.

JJ Custom Designs along with the Atlanta Area Chamber of Commerce held a grand reopening as the business changed locations to 125 E. Hiram Street – right next to Cass County Junktion and across the street from Rabbit Patch.

The following students attended the District UIL Academic Meet at Region 8 on Mar. 20: Anayah Thompson: Literary Criticism Anthony Castleberry: Computer Applications, Current Events, Math, Spelling Brayden Attaway: Computer Applications, Current Events, Spelling Cade Warren: Literary Criticism Clare Wong: Calculator, Number Sense, Math Harley Smith: Calculator, Computer Science, Math, Science Kaden Fincher: Current Events, Spelling Kanyon Compton: Computer Science Linley Butler: Calculator, Number Sense, Science Luke Moore: Number Sense, Science Madison Chickadel: Science Trevonne Horsley: Calculator Vincent Wong: Calculator, Computer Science, Number Sense, Math, Science Xavior Allison: Computer Science, Math, Science The following students placed in the top six of their event(s) at the District UIL Academic Meet at Region 8 on Mar. 20: Anayah Thompson earned 6th place in Literary Criticism Anthony Castleberry earned 1st place Computer Applications and 3rd place Spelling Brayden Attaway earned 2nd place Computer Applications and 5th place Spelling Clare Wong earned 2nd place Number Sense and 3rd place Calculator Harley Smith earned 1st place Computer Science Vincent Wong earned 3rd place Number Sense, 2nd place Science, and top Physics score Xavior Allison earned 2nd place Computer Science Clare, Luke, Vincent, and Linley earned 2nd place team in Number Sense Vincent, Harley, Xavior, Madison earned 2nd place team in Science Anthony, Brayden, and Kaden earned 2nd place team in Spelling Xavior, Harley, Vincent, and Kanyon earned 1st place team in Computer Science Allen - Ready Writing (student never showed up to competitions) The UIL Coaches are as followed: Cherry Gennings (Gen Math and Comp Science) Ronni Henrico (Lit Crit) Kim Sheppard (Current Events, Spelling, Comp Apps) Christine Dice (Calculator and Number Sense) Stephanie Chickadel (Science) Clare Wong, Vincent Wong, Anthony Castleberry, Brayden Attaway, Harley Smith, Xavior Allison, Kanyon Compton advanced to Region on April 21 and 22 in Tyler.