Jackson County IN Archives Obituaries.....Thurston, Alexander James Dallas November 9, 1901
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Seymour Republican Nov 11, 1901 and Brownstown Banner Nov 13, 1901
Republican: The news of the sudden death of Colonel Thurston, which occurred
Nov. 9, at the home of his sister, Mrs. A.P. Charles, was received with sorrow.
Alexander James Dallas Thurston was born at Aurora, New York, June 19, 1820. He
was educated for the profession of law and practiced for a time at Mount
Clemens, Michigan, but not liking it in 1844 he became a surveyor and civil
engineer, and was employed by the government in surveying the public lands in
northern Michigan. In 1845 he went to Nashville, Tennessee. He was married June
1, 1852, to Sallie W. McClain, of Green Hill, Tennessee. Five children, three
sons, and two daughters were born to this union. The sons are all dead; the
daughters, Mrs. Wallace Wright lives at Mexico, Mo., and Mrs. Weigert lives at
Rector, Arkansas. The wife of Col. Thurston died in 1874. Interment in Riverview.

Brownstown Banner: Col. A. J. Thurston died Nov. 9. He served in the Confederate
army in the civil War, and was colonel of a regiment under Stonewall Jackson. He
located at Seymour in 1878.

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