Thomas J. Voss is found with his family in Newton Co, GA. Next door is Eliza Alexander with children Richard, James, Albert, and Victoria. Thomas's wife Elizabeth's maiden name is Alexander....so if Eliza her sister in law?? Family story is that Thomas J. was quite a ladie's man and left his GA family and started another family in Flotida. WeI find Thomas J. in 1860 census records in Volusia County, FL living alone. In next household is Alexander Rose and Eliza Vass with children James Vass, Richard Vass, Britt Vass, and Victoria Vass. However, in that 1850 Georgia Census the four children have the last name of Alexander, but by 1860 the names are Vass. which is what they were known as.  These are obviously the same people as living next door to him in 1850 in GA. Trying to figure out what relation Eliza is to Thomas or did he run off with his neighbor?? Elizabeth, his wife is found in 1880 living with her son while Thomas is found in Volusia County, FL living with a new wife Susan A. Davis whom we have a marriage date of July 28, 1870 there in Valusia County. From 1860 to 1880, Richard, James, & Victoria Vass are found living with or next to Thomas Vass. 

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In 1850, Newton County, Georgia Thomas is shown with wife Elizabeth (age 40) and six children: Melchesadek Dickson, Pinkney Nathaniel, Charles Alford, Mary, Uriah and Fields.  These children did not move to Florida but either stayed in Georgia or migrated out to Alabama and Arkansas albeit at very young ages.  Next door we have another Elizabeth known as Eliza with a last name of Alexander (age 38) with four children: James, Richard, Albert and Victoria ages 7 to 2 years also named Alexander.  These four children are the ones found in 1860 in Florida living next door again to Thomas J. who was living alone, but their surname is now Vass.  Also, living in that household with "Eliza" was a gentleman by the name of Alexander Rose.  The Rose family looks to be closely connected with the Voss's as we find young  Pinckney out in Arkansas wiith a C. A. Rose and family.  There does not seem to be a record of an Elizabeth Voss in the 1860's Georgia Census.  So what are we looking at?  Could the Eliza Alexander and Elizabeth Alexander (Thomas J's legal wife) be the same person but living separately from Thomas J.  Another question is posed as to why the first six children did not make the move to Florida...They were all in their teens and early twenties.  We know that by July, 1870 Thomas J. remarried.  We do not know where Elizabeth is at that time.  She doe show up again in the Alabama 1880 Census living with her son Uriah so we must assume that she and Thomas had split.

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In 1870 we find Richard and his wife and daughter living with Thomas J.

Thomas J. is known or recorded as VOSS in GA but in FL, he is recorded as VASS.