Biography:  Thomas J. Shamberger - Smith County, TX

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Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas
Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, 
and Many Early Settled Families
Chicago, F. A. Battey & Company, 1889; p 760

THOMAS J. SHAMBERGER

Thomas J. Shamberger was born in Smith county, Texas, December 12, 1950.  
His father, Matthew Shamburger, was a son of Peter Shamberger, a native 
of North Carolina, of German extraction.  Matthew Shamberger came to 
Texas with his parents when young, and located in Smith county, where 
he made his start in life on a farm.  He was a devout Christian, and 
was looked upon as a leader in social circles.  He was a member of the 
Masonic order, and took an active interest in local politics from a 
Democratic point of view.  In 1849 he married a Georgian girl named 
Julia Shockley.  To this union were born eight children of whom the 
subject of this sketch, Thomas J., is the eldest.  He was reared and 
received a common-school education in Smith county, Texas.  His first 
introduction to manual labor was made on a farm, where he spent the 
first few years of his life after maturity.  He then learned the 
blacksmith trade, which he followed as a vocation for some time, since 
which he has been engaged in the nursery business.  He has been most 
successful in this last-named business, and is at present president of 
the Smith County Nursery Association, of which he was the organizer.  
He was married, December 12, 1872, to Miss Sadie Morehead, daughter 
of Thomas Morehead, of Smith county, Texas.  This marriage has 
resulted in the birth of nine children --Shuford, Joseph E., Nettie,
Perry, Claude, Bettie, Herman, and two who died in infancy.  Mr. and 
Mrs. Shamberger are members of the Missionary Baptist churfch.  They 
are surrounded b y everything that tends to make life a joy and 
comfort.  Mr. Shamberger's farm consists of 785 acres, two hundred 
of which are under cultivation, nearly all being devoted to fruit 
growing.