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Thomas Elgin Garrison

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Thomas Elgin Garrison

Birth
Knox County, Missouri, USA
Death
26 Dec 1923 (aged 82)
Bethel Township, Shelby County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Shelbyville, Shelby County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Occupation: Farmer

MO d/c 38535

Military
1861 in Missouri
Enlisted in the Confederate Army, Co. E, 3rd MO. Infantry, and served to the end of the war. He was a POW in Federal Prison for ten months, was taken prisoner just prior to the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Fought at Lexington, Missouri and Corinth, Mississippi.

PROMINENT STOCK MAN AND FARMER DIES AT HIS HOME IN BETHEL
Bethel, Mo., Dec. 28.—Funeral services of Thomas E. Garrison, prominent farmer and stock man, who died Wednesday in Bethel, was held Thuraday afternoon at the Bathel M, E. church conducted by Rev. E. B. Botsford of Edlna and burial was in the I. O. O. F. cemetery.
Since he was 10 years of age Mr. Garrison lived in Shelby county.
He was bom in Knox county April 9, 1841, and was aged 83 years when he died. During the Civil war he was taken prlsoner and was confined in the federal prison for ten months. As a stock man he was well-known throughout the surrounding counties. He was a member of the Methodist church. His wife died last January. He leaves two daughter's, Mrs. Christie Moore of Bethel and Mrs. J. M. Whitlock of San Diego, Cal. Two brothers, James W., of Shelbyville, and Francis of Adair county.
The Quincy Daily Journal, Friday, December 28, 1923; Page: 5

Native of Knox County Dies in Shelby.
Thomas E. Garrison, 83 years old, a native of Knox County and Confederate soldier in the Civil War, who took part in a number of important engagement and was taken a prisoner not long before the siege of Vicksburg and confined in a Federal prison for ten months, died Wednesday morning of last week after a long illness at his home in Bethel township, Shelby County, where he had lived since he was 10 years old. Rev. S. E. Botsford of Edina conducted the funeral services last Thursday afternoon at the Bethel M. E. Church, and burial was in the Shelbyville I. O. O. F. cemetery.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri, January 03, 1924

Information on file with Shelby County Historical Society & Museum
Occupation: Farmer

MO d/c 38535

Military
1861 in Missouri
Enlisted in the Confederate Army, Co. E, 3rd MO. Infantry, and served to the end of the war. He was a POW in Federal Prison for ten months, was taken prisoner just prior to the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Fought at Lexington, Missouri and Corinth, Mississippi.

PROMINENT STOCK MAN AND FARMER DIES AT HIS HOME IN BETHEL
Bethel, Mo., Dec. 28.—Funeral services of Thomas E. Garrison, prominent farmer and stock man, who died Wednesday in Bethel, was held Thuraday afternoon at the Bathel M, E. church conducted by Rev. E. B. Botsford of Edlna and burial was in the I. O. O. F. cemetery.
Since he was 10 years of age Mr. Garrison lived in Shelby county.
He was bom in Knox county April 9, 1841, and was aged 83 years when he died. During the Civil war he was taken prlsoner and was confined in the federal prison for ten months. As a stock man he was well-known throughout the surrounding counties. He was a member of the Methodist church. His wife died last January. He leaves two daughter's, Mrs. Christie Moore of Bethel and Mrs. J. M. Whitlock of San Diego, Cal. Two brothers, James W., of Shelbyville, and Francis of Adair county.
The Quincy Daily Journal, Friday, December 28, 1923; Page: 5

Native of Knox County Dies in Shelby.
Thomas E. Garrison, 83 years old, a native of Knox County and Confederate soldier in the Civil War, who took part in a number of important engagement and was taken a prisoner not long before the siege of Vicksburg and confined in a Federal prison for ten months, died Wednesday morning of last week after a long illness at his home in Bethel township, Shelby County, where he had lived since he was 10 years old. Rev. S. E. Botsford of Edina conducted the funeral services last Thursday afternoon at the Bethel M. E. Church, and burial was in the Shelbyville I. O. O. F. cemetery.
The Edina Sentinel, Edina, Missouri, January 03, 1924

Information on file with Shelby County Historical Society & Museum


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