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From the historical files of June E. Tuck, who does not validate or dispute any historical facts in the article.
Past History and Present Stage of Development of Texas
Published by The Forrister History Company
Regan Printing House, Chicago, Ill.
I. G. Forrister, Publisher
(No date given. 1912??)
Luther Benjamin Thweatt born April 15, 1844, on a farm in Shelby County, Alabama, his father, Dan Thweatt, being a
native farmer of that state, and his mother, a native of South Carolina, being Miss Eliza Davis. Being seventeen years
of age when the war came on, he enlisted at Harpersville, his native county, in August 1861, Company I, 18th Alabama
Volunteers. The company was recruited with one hundred men, with Capt. Pete Hernly first, and Capt. Dan Martin its last
officer, and when mustered out of service only five answered to the last roll-call, and the present time, so far as Mr.
Thweatt knows, there are but three now living, as follows: R.A. "Parsons" Kidd, not at Birmingham, Ala.; G. T. Cullen,
of Caledonia, Ark.; and Maston A. Faulkner, of Sterritt, Ala. Mr. Thweatt received his initial baptismal fire in the
battler of Shiloh, and remained with the Army of the Tennessee until it was divided into two parts, one going to
Virginia and the other to Mobile, Ala., he going with the Mobile division, and participating in the sixteen days siege
of the Spanish fort at Mobile bay. Retracing to earlier stages, he was in the battles of Resacca, Chickamauga, Hope
Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Franklin, Nashville, Tenn., etc., in fact, he was in the
thickest and busiest part of the melee. On May 10, 1865, Mr. Thweatt received his discharge from the army at Meridian,
Miss., and went to Louisiana where he remained until coming to Hopkins county in the fall of 1868. He owns a nice farm
and operates a store at Brinker, seven miles east of Sulphur Springs on the Pine Forest Road. Mr. Thweatt is a
Missionary Baptist, a Democrat, and while he has served as special deputy sheriff for ten years, has never particularly
sought office. (Edited)
[Added by TSS, 21 JUN 2010]
Luther Benjamin Thweatt is cousin to Sara Caroline Thweatt, the first wife of James Henry Posey. James Henry Posey's second wife, Effa Matilda Stewart is sister to William Wallace Stewart and Sarah Jane Stewart. Sarah Jane Stewart married John S. Martin, nephew of Captain Dan Martin. William Wallace Stewart and John S. Martin served with Luther Benjamin Thweatt in Company I, 18th Alabama Volunteers. William Wallace Stewart died at the battle of Jonesboro. John S. Martin died before 1863. His descendants, Mary Gertrude Martin and John Powers Martin migrated to Hopkins County along with the Posey and Stewart families.
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