5 - James Thomas Mabry b ca 1790 GA; m1 Mattie Walker; m2 15
Oct 1832 Elizabeth (Allen) Sevall; m3 Affa or Orpha
Crowder; d 1861 Leake Co MS (1830 MS Hinds; 1840 MS
Leake; 1850 MS Attala; 1861 MS Leake). Like many other
Mabry ancestors, James Thomas Mabry participated in the
development of settlements where he lived. He also took
advantage of public land sales. Records of these activities,
along with the places of birth of his children, make it
possible to follow his movements from Georgia through
eastern Alabama and into Hinds, Leake, and Attala
Counties in Mississippi. Although educational
opportunities were limited on the frontier at the time, James
Thomas received medical training and became a doctor.
Descendants still have some of his medical books.
In a letter written in 1909 by his grandson Roland Madison
Mabry,James Thomas was described as“a grand good man
who would not do anything he thought was wrong. He
never did own any slaves. He said he knew it was wrong to
hold ******* in slavery. He was a man of great intellectual
power and of high character.”35