Macon County AlArchives Biographies.....Drakeford, Thomas C. 1833 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), pages 446-447

Thomas C. Drakeford, of the form of T. C. Drakeford & Co., general merchants, 
Tuskegee, Ala., was born in Kershaw district, S. C. in 1833, and is a son of 
John and Sarah A. (Carlos) Drakeford, natives of South Carolina, and born 
respectively in 1799 and 1812.  In 1836 the family came to Alabama, located at 
Montgomery, moved to Tuskegee the next year, remained a year or two, went back 
to Montgomery for another year, and finally settled in Tuskegee, where Mr. 
Drakeford died in 1858 and Mrs. Drakeford in 1859 – he a member of the 
Missionary Baptist church, and she of the Christian church.  While in South 
Carolina, Mr. John Drakeford had followed farming, but on coming to Alabama 
engaged in merchandising, which occupied his attention until his retirement to 
private life, a short time before his death.  The Drakeford family are of 
English descent; the Carlos family are of Spanish extraction; and both reached 
America long before the Revolutionary war freed the country from the control of 
England.  William Drakeford, a brother of John Drakeford, father of the John 
named above, held the rank of colonel in patriot army.  William C. Carlos, the 
maternal grandfather of Thomas C. Drakeford, was a farmer, and died in 
Montgomery county many years ago.  Thomas C. Drakeford was the second born in a 
family of six sons and three daughters.  Of these, William H. was a member of 
Company A, Third Alabama Infantry, and was in all probability killed at 
Gettysburg, as he was never seen or heard of after that great battle.  Thomas 
C. was educated at Tuskegee, and at the age of eighteen years engaged as a 
clerk in mercantile business, which has occupied his attention ever since, he 
being now the oldest and most successful merchant in the county, having begun 
on his own account after the accumulation of a few hundred dollars saved from 
his salary as clerk.  He has also invested somewhat in real estate, which he 
rents.  The marriage of Mr. Drakeford was solemnized November 15, 1870, with 
Mrs. S. C. Dryer, daughter of Benjamin Dryer, a North Carolinian, but an early 
settler in Montgomery County, Ala.  This lady was born in Montgomery county, 
and is the mother of four sons, Thomas and Benjamin Dryer, by her first 
husband, and John H. and William C. by her second husband.  Mr. Drakeford has 
had his experience as a soldier, having early in 1862 joined a company of 
partisan rangers, which was subsequently attached to the Fifty-sixth Alabama 
regiment of cavalry, and was known as Company A.  He saw service in northern 
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, and in North and South Carolina, and served 
until the close of the war, being near Greensboro, N. C. at the surrender.  To 
the marriage of John and Sarah A. Drakeford were born the following children:  
May A., wife of W. L. Benham, West Point, Ga.; Thomas C., whose name heads this 
sketch; John S. present tax collector of Macon county, Ala.; Elizabeth, married 
to T. J. Calhoun, of Montgomery, Ala.; Paul, Alexander H., business partner of 
Thomas C.; Sallie, wife of George Sandusky, of Kentucky, and Rich P., who died 
in infancy.

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