During part of his legislative tenure, Wade served alongside Robert H. Snyder of St. Joseph, who was a House Speaker.
Anna's husband was named for her father, Dr. Thomas Baldwin Magruder (1800-1885), of Port Gibson in Claiborne County in southwestern Mississippi.
Thomas and Anna Wade and other family members are interred at Winter Green Cemetery in Port Gibson, Mississippi.
[5] From a second marriage to his then surviving widow, the former Mary Gwendolyn Webb, he had a daughter, Miss Anna Wade of El Dorado.
[6] Grandson Thomas Wade, III, was first an attorney and from 1940 to 1942 the mayor of St. Joseph[7] before he enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II.
Thereafter, he graduated from the theological seminary of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and became an ordained Episcopal priest with service between 1957 and 1979 in DeRidder, Minden, Baton Rouge, and Pineville, Louisiana.