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Tom H. Thornton
Tom H. Thornton was born in Hinds County, Miss., April 27th, 1843. Removed to Texas in 1863 and taught school at Hopewell, and in 1866 settled in Tyler, Texas. When the war opened he was a student in the Mississippi College at Clinton, Miss. He quit school and enlisted in Co. E., 18th Mississippi and at the first battle of Manassas was seriously wounded in the hip and received an honorable discharge. Again he assisted in raising Co. K., 36th Mississippi, but was again discharged on account of the wound received, and assigned to the commissary department where he performed clerical duty until the fall of 1863 he crossed the Mississippi river and made Texas his home. He has been a leading business man since the war and for six years he was Mayor of Tyler. He always limped a little from the wounds at Manassas but was active in business affairs. On May 4th, 1865, he married Miss Sallie Roberts, daughter of Thos. Roberts, of the county. A good man, a Christian gentleman and a popular citizen. He died February, 1907, and was buried in Oakwood cemetery.
Source: Transcription from the book, Texans Who Wore The Gray, by Sidney Smith Johnson, published in 1907; located on the website, Internet Archive (http://archive.org), accessed 10 March 2024.
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