Hill County, Texas - Obits: Thomas K. McDonald ************************************************ Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Bunny Freeman Copyright ©2005 by Bunny Freeman Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ Confederate Veteran Magazine Vol. XXV No. 1 January 1917 Hill County Camp, U. C. V. At the regular meeting of Hill County Camp, No. 166, U. C. V., of Hillsboro, Tex., held on November 25, 1916, the following resolution was adopted: "On the morning of November 8, 1916, Comrade Thomas K. McDonald answered the last roll call. He was born in Hall County, Ga., and later moved to Blount County, in the State of Alabama. When the tocsin of war sounded in the early sixties, he responded to his country's call to arms to defend her honor against an encroaching foe, enlisted in Company D, 26th Alabama, which later became the 50th Alabama Regiment, and gave of his young manhood the services of a soldier. He was married in 1858 to Miss Louise Rainwater, and from this union sprang ten children, of whom six are still living. He was a member of Hill County Camp, No. 166. Dying at the age of eighty-one years and seven months, Comrade McDonald was sixty years a Mason, sixty-five years a member of the Baptist Church, and fort-one years a deacon of his Church, and was always a Democrat. "committee: John W. Morrison, Tam Brooks, W. L. McKee."