I am looking for info on my ggrandad, and ggrandmom, cant find birth parents of

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I am looking for info on my ggrandad, and ggrandmom, cant find birth parents of either, dob abt. 1885 for both

from what I can find both were born in alabama, their names are Homer T. Thomas and Abigail or Abby Gail Legere or Legear. I have them in the 1920 census with several children, Abby was murdered in 1929. Abby`s parents were born in GA. Homers were born in AL. this is all the info I have so far, If anyone has more on them I would love to have it. any help recieves many thanks. JB

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Is this the right Homer?
Name: Homer T. Thomas
Death Date: Dec 1924
Death County: Walker
Volume: 57
Roll: 2
Page #: 28019

Or maybe this one?
Homer T. Thomas
DOB: 18 May 1885
DOD:15 Dec 1972
Last Res: Geneva, Geneva, Alabama

Name: Homer S Thomas
[Homer T Thomas]
Home in 1920: Ponce De Leon, Holmes, Florida
Age: 34 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1886
Birthplace: Alabama
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's name: Abbie
Father's Birth Place: Alabama
Mother's Birth Place: Alabama
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Male
Home owned: Rent
Able to read: No
Able to Write: No
Image: 1020
Household Members: Name Age
Homer S Thomas 34
Abbie Thomas 34
Pearlie Thomas 12
Lena Mae Thomas 11
Willie Agnes Thomas 8
Charlie Thomas 6
Johnie Thomas 5
Wesley Thomas 1 8/12

I pulled the census of 1920 that we know is your family so that we all have the same info to work from...but KatesMate is goofball so it doesn't really matter.

Here's what I found on the family.

There is no standard spelling for LeGere or LaGear. But there is someone we can track who may be a sibling...right age and right location. He was a police officer from Mobile named Willie Legear. Interesting on its face because one of the children (a daughter) is named Willie.
Willie Norton Legear 2 Jun 1886 White Mobile, Mobile, AL

Contact the city of Mobile and find out where their old personnel records are archived. That gives you something concrete to research independently of the internet. Then we can figure out where he was born and who he was listing as NOK throughout the years.

I also found a William Legear living in Georgia, which is where Abby's parents were supposedly born. He was a widower in 1910 and would be worth investigating further:

Name: William H Legear
Age in 1910: 41
Estimated birth year: abt 1869
Birthplace: Georgia
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Georgia
Mother's Birth Place: Georgia
Home in 1910: Colomokee, Early, Georgia
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Gender: Male

In 1880 he used the spelling Leger:
Name: William H. Leger
Home in 1880: Wrights, Henry, Alabama
Age: 17
Estimated birth year: abt 1863
Birthplace: Alabama
Relation to head-of-household: Son
Father's name: J. James
Father's birthplace: South Carolina
Mother's name: Mary A.
Mother's birthplace: South Carolina
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Occupation: Farm Laborer
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Male

The real problem we face in trying to track this couple is that Alabama didn't file marriage records til the 1930s. You might do better to pull Abby's death record and obituary to see what information they offer. There are only a couple of possibilities on who the parents might be, so you could also track down their obits. But there's nothing resembling birth records, marriage licenses or competent death records in this state early enough. They're not showing up on the earlier censuses as someone's children. I'd work with the names of the kids to see who they were named after...it's probably the most competent clue to work from in this family.