Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Peagler, Thomas W. June 30 1859 - living in 1893
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 14, 2004, 1:43 pm

Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    THOMAS W. PEAGLER, the leading druggist of Greenville, Ala., is a son of
George S. and Absilla Peagler, and was born June 30, 1859, in Butler county,
about twelve miles west of the city of Greenville. His. father was born in South
Carolina in 1808, became an extensive planter, and died in Butler county, Ala.,
in 1872. George Peagler's wife, Absilla, daughter of Gray and Penelope Stallings
Thigpen, whom he married in 1840, bore him five children and died in the year
1875. Martin Peagler, the eldest of the family, was a soldier in the Confederate
army, contracted a disease while in the service, and died before the close of
the war. The second son, George W., is a farmer and stock raiser near Highland
Home, Crenshaw county, Ala. G. J., the third in order of birch, is in the
milling business at Forest, Ala. Sophronia, deceased, was the wife of W. M.
Flowers, and the youngest member of the family is the gentleman whose name
introduces this mention. Thomas W. Peagler's educational training was acquired
in the common schools and by a short attendance at an educational institution of
a higher grade, and on reaching the years of his majority he engaged in the
pursuit of agriculture on the home farm, where he resided until the year 1888.
At that time he formed a partnership with A. G. Stewart in the drug business at
Greenville, where the firm of Stewart & Peagler did a successful trade until
1885, Mr. Peagler selling out to his partner at that date. He then purchased an
interest in the drug firm of E. M. Kirkpatrick & Co., which after his admission
became known as Kirkpatrick & Peagler, under which name the business was carried
on until March, 1889, when Mr. Peagler bought the entire stock. He has since
that time been prominently identified with the drug trade of Greenville, and now
owns the largest store of the kind in the city, carrying a stock of over $5,000
and doing a business amounting to about $12,000 per year. He still owns a part
of the old home plantation and is the possessor of a beautiful residence in
Greenville. He is one of the successful young business men in Butler county, and
is very popular, especially with the younger element, who who hold him in the
highest esteem. He was for some time captain of one of the local military
companies of Greenville - the Greenville Light Guards, and afterward captain of
the Greenville Rifle company, which was organized by consolidating the two old
companies - the Greenville Light Guards and Butler Rifles, but resigned that
position to accept the office of major of the First regiment Alabama state
troops, to which he was elected in November, 1890, to fill an unexpired term,
and was again elected unanimously in February, 1892, for a term of three years.
Mr. Peagler and Ellen, daughter of J. L. Dunkin, were united in the bonds of
matrimony November, 1882. They have had three children, W. Werle and Myrtle,
living, and Ila, who died at the age of two years. Mr. Peagler is past
chancellor of the K. of P. lodge of Greenville, and belongs to the American
Legion of Houor.




Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 570, 573

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/

File size: 3.6 Kb