 Complete the following phrase:  Thomas was born at Newsoms Depot, Southampton County, Virginia, five miles 8 km from the North Carolina border. His father, John Thomas, of Welsh descent, and his mother, Elizabeth Rochelle Thomas, a descendant of French Huguenot immigrants, had six children. George had three sisters and two brothers. The family led an upper-class plantation lifestyle. By 1829, they owned and 15 slaves. John died in a farm accident when George was 13, leaving the family in ficial difficulties. George Thomas, his sisters, and his widowed mother were forced to flee from their home and hide in the nearby woods during Nat Turners 