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(Born 05 SEP 1841 near Ramer, Montgomery County, Alabama; Died 22 FEB 1915 in Oklahoma; buried Vamoosa Cemetery, Seminole County, Oklahoma) William T. Amason married first 22 DEC 1860 in Montgomery County, Alabama to Elizabeth Pair (Born about 1839 in Alabama; Died after 1872 in Texas). At the time of the 1870 U.S. census, William T. Amason, wife, Elizabeth and daughters, Laura and Susie, were living in Milam County, Texas near Port Sullivan. William T. Amason's brothers, Christopher O. Amason, his family, and brother, Stanley Amason, were enumerated in the adjacent household in 1870. According to Civil War pension documents, William T. Amason relocated to DeWitt County, Texas shortly after 1870. He stated in his pension application that he had lived in DeWitt County, all but one year since he moved to Texas. Oral family history says William T. Amason and Elizabeth Pair had nine children, eight girls and a boy, but only three daughters and one son have been identified. "Tobissy" Strange was William T. Amason's nurse. William T. Amason was disabled by wounds received as a soldier for the Confederate States of America, during the Civil War. He had lost an eye, an arm, and had other injuries as well. William T. Amason married second to Margaret Tabitha "Tobissy" Strange (Born 02 JUN 1874; Died 27 APR 1935, buried in Vamoosa Cemetery, Seminole County, Oklahoma as Margaret Mathis) on 07 JUL 1894 in DeWitt County, Texas. William T. Amason and wife, "Tobissy", were returning to Texas, by wagon, after visiting his brother, Christopher O. Amason and family near Konawa, Oklahoma, when William T. Amason died. "Tobissy" and their sons, Drewey and Stanley later moved to be near family in Oklahoma.