Henry County AlArchives Biographies.....Trawick, Thomas A. February 2 1844 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   THOMAS A. TRAWICK, clerk of the circuit court of Henry county, was born
February 2, 1844. He was the seventh child in a family of ten born to George N.
and Nancy (Galloway) Trawick. The former was born in South Carolina July 6,
1811, moved to Alabama when he was eighteen years of age, settling in Henry
county, near the town of Abbeville, when the entire country was a wilderness. He
purchased a plantation, which he proceeded to improve, and eventually
accumulated a large tract of land. When the war broke out he owned some fifty
slaves, whom, of course, he lost through the operation of the war. He was too
old to enter the service, so he continued to manage his plantation through the
war, and after the war also, and again accumulated considerable property. His
death occurred in November, 1886, when he was seventy-seven years of age. He was
a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. His wife was a native of South
Carolina, coming to Alabama while very small. She was a daughter of William
Galloway, a planter of considerable note, of Henry county. She grew up in Henry
county, with such advantages for securing an education as the schools of that
county afforded, which were then extremely meager. She was married in her
sixteenth year. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, was the
mother of ten children, and died in 1850. In 1855 Mr. Trawick next married Mrs.
Lucinda Moor, who bore him two children, and died in 1884. Thomas A. Trawick was
brought up on his father's farm, and his education was much neglected. At the
age of seventeen he enlisted in the service of the Confederate States, and
served four years. He went out in a company known as the Henry Grays, as a
private soldier, and served under John B. Gordon in the Sixth Alabama regiment.
He was wounded five times. At the battle of Seven Pines he was shot through the
thigh; at the battle of South Mountain he received a slight flesh wound; at the
battle of Chancellorsville he was again wounded in the thigh; in May, 1864, he
received another slight flesh wound, and on the 19th of September, 1864, he was
wounded at the battle of Winchester, which caused about four inches of the bone
of his right arm, including the elbow joint to be taken out, an operation
causing him much suffering. He has preserved the bone thus taken out as a
souvenir of the war and surgical triumph. After the close of the war he turned
his attention to farming. In July, 1866, he was appointed deputy sheriff of
Henry county, and served in this capacity until 1869, when he was appointed
sheriff of the county and served three years. In 1872 he engaged in mercantile
pursuits, and in 1874 he was elected clerk of the circuit court, which office he
has held ever since. He is now a candidate for re-election. On February 15,
1866, he was married to Miss Carrie V. Kirkland, daughter of Isaac Kirkland, one
of the early pioneers of Henry county, and the first merchant in Abbeville. He
was for many years clerk of the county court. Mrs. Trawick was born in
Abbeville, May 19, 1844, and had the best educational advantages the country
afforded. She was married in her twenty-first year, and is the mother of five
children: Daniel G. is single and resides at home; Lula Lee, wife of Z. W.
Laney, Jr.; George A., a young business man of Abbeville, occupying a position
in the store of Robert Newman; William A., attending Abbeville high school; John
T., also attending Abbeville high school. Both Mr. and Mrs. Trawick are members
of the Missionary Baptist church. Mr. Trawick had five brothers, two
brother-in-laws, and one step-brother in the Confederate service, all of whom
perished during that conflict, except one brother. This brother is one of Dale
county's prosperous planters. Mr. Trawick is a straight-out democrat, is a Mason
of the royal arch degree, is secretary of his lodge, is a member of the
municipal board, and takes an active interest in everything promising to promote
the material interests of the community. He is an advocate of religion, morality
and law, and has held his present position for eighteen years.



Additional Comments:
from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1123-1124
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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