I have hit a brick wall....hopefully someone can help!  :)  I can not seem to find any information on my great grandmother's parents.  My great grandmother is Lenora Mae Gilley Pabst.  She was born 12/6/1904 in Texas to Nora/Nola Thomas and Tom Gilley. 

Nora/Nola Thomas was born to Charles Dawson Thomas and Laura Emily Ferguson in 1886 in Texas.  During the 1900 census, she lived with her parents and brothers and sisters in Wilson Co., TX.  She was 14 years old and listed as Nora.  By 1910, she was still living with her parents, this time in Burnet Co., TX.  She is listed as widowed with her husband's last name of Gilley.  She was listed as Nola A. Thomas and her daughter Lenora was listed as Nora M. 

As for Nora/Nola's husband, he was Tom Gilley, born about 1883 in Mississippi to David and Mary Ellen Dement Gilley.  The story goes that Nora/Nola was pregnant with my great grandmother Lenora when he passed away, so his death date would be 1904.  The Gilley's lived close the Thomas family  during the 1900 and 1910 censuses, in the same counties as the Thomas family.  I have checked the Texas Death Index for Tom Gilley's death record, but haven't been able to locate it.  I have also checked the Family Search pilot website for a death certificate for Tom Gilley and can't find it.  I heard he is buried in or around Uvalde,Texas, but haven't been able to locate his grave either.

Nora/Nola has also gone by Iona and Nonna according to family members.  She passed away about 1914 after remarrying to a Mr. Jim Bain and having more children: Hubert, Carl, Robert, Myrtle and Alma Bain.  I had heard also that she had asked her second husband to bury her by her first husband.  I have not been able to locate her death certificate or death record either. 

As a sidenote, Tom's brother, John and Nora/Nola's sister, Eula, married each other, so the Thomas/Gilley family is connected in this way as well.

I feel like I am missing something about all of this.  Can anyone help shed some light?

Thanks in advance,

Heather