COFFEE COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - Thomas and Nancy (TEAL) CROSLIN
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Thomas CROSLIN, farmer, was born in West Tennessee in 1822, the son 
of Thomas and Nancy (TEAL) CROSLIN. The father, a farmer, born in Virginia in 
1778, went to what is now Coffee County, Tennessee, in his youth, a pioneer of 
that region, married and afterward moved to West Tennessee. In 1824 he moved 
to Morgan County, Illinois. A year later he returned to Coffee County, and for 
several years after 1828 lived in the Cherokee Nation, Alabama. In 1844 he 
came to Williamson County, Illinois, and bought a farm on which he died in 
1865. His wife, a native of South Carolina, died the year before. Three of 
their four children are living. Our subject remained with his parents until 
1844 he came to “Suckerdom.” In 1846 he married Elvira, daughter of John T and 
Jane CARTER, and a native of Smith County, Tennessee. Their children are John, 
Alonzo, Smith, Louella and Alice. He lived in Williamson County until 1858, 
when he bought property in Parrish, and cleared the site of the village. In 
December 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-sixth Illinois Infantry, for 
three years or for the war, and fought at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Mission Ridge 
(Missionary Ridge ?), Chickamauga, Kenesaw Mountain, Nashville and numerous 
other skirmishes, not wounded or captured, but permanently injured by 
sickness. He was discharged July 14, 1865 at Springfield, Illinois. He lived 
at Parrish until 1881, when he bought his present farm of seventy acres. He is 
a Republican, first voting for Polk. He is a member of the F M B A and he and 
his wife are members of the Baptist Church.