CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: TOM H. THORNTON - Smith County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

TOM H. THORNTON

Tom H. Thornton was born in Hinds County, Miss., April 27th, 1843.  
Removed to Texas in 1863 and taught school at Hopewell, and in 
1866 settled in Tyler, Texas. When the war opened he was a student 
in the Mississippi College at Clinton. Miss.  He quit school and 
enlisted in Co. E, 18th Mississippi and at the first battle of 
Manassas was seriously wounded in the hip and received an honorable 
dis­charge.  Again he assisted in raising Co., K, 36th Missis­sippi, but 
was again discharged on account of the wound received, and assigned to 
the commissary department where he performed clerical duty until the 
fall of 1863 he crossed the Mississippi river and made Texas his home. 
He has been a leading business man since the war and for six years he 
was Mayor of Tyler. He always limped a little from the wounds at 
Manasas but was active in business affairs; On May 4th, 1865, he 
married Miss Sallie Roberts, daughter of Thos. Roberts, of the county. 
A good man, a Christian gentleman and a popnlar citizen. He died 
February, 1907, and was buried in Oakwood cemetery.