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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

      J. T. THOMAS, farmer, was born on his present farm April 3, 1840,
   the son of FREDERICK S. and HANNAH (WORLEY) THOMAS, who are mentioned
   in the sketch of J. W. THOMAS.  Our subject was educated at Cedar
   Springs Academy, and in 1860 moved to Missouri, and taught school in
   Dade County.  He joined Col. WALKER’S Company, First Missouri Cavalry
   for six months, and then entered the quartermaster’s department, and
   filled the rank of captain, as a non-commissioned officer. He was cap-
   tured in Indian Territory in 1868, and for five months imprisoned at
   Fort Smith.  He joined his company at Stockton, Mo., and surrendered
   in 1865, in Indian Territory.  He located in Texas in 1869, and then
   became the cultivator and owner of his present farm of 337 acres. He
   was deputy tax collector for two years, and collector for the same
   length of time as a Democrat. January 11, 1866, he married H. C., a
   daughter of JACOB and NANCY STANLEY, and born in Athens, Ohio, in 1850.
   They were married in Texas, where her parents had come as refugees from
   Missouri. They have ten children. He and his wife are Presbyterians, of
   which church he is an elder.

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