Early Texas Settler and a co-founder of the Matthews Plantation. Married to the daughter (Sarah) of James Steen Montgomery.
Obit: Departed this life, at his residence in this county, on the 30th of August last, Geo. W. Thatcher in the 59th year of his age.
He was born in Frederick County, Virginia on the banks of the beautiful and fast rolling Shenandoah, on the 8th of January, 1808, but moved with his father in early youth to Ohio: resided for a time in Mississippi where he married a daughter of the late James S. Montgomery; emigrated to Texas with his family about the beginning of the Revolution and has resided on his plantation near Eagle Lake till the date of his death.
Few of the early settlers of Texas were better known or more esteemed for his many social virtues than the deceased. He was remarkable for his bounteous hospitality, his infinite humor and kindly disposition. His devotion to his family and close attention to his planting interest, in which he was eminently successful, kept him chiefly at his own fireside, where he was always pleased to welcome his numerous friends and to extend to them that warm greeting so characteristic of the Southern planters.
Mr. Thatcher lingered in illness for two years from an attack of paralysis, which caused his death. He was patient and cheerful in all his confinement and met the messenger of his fate with unbalanced firmness and with full confidence of never-ending repose. What is life, when contrasted with his hope of continuos bliss, but the breath upon the mirror, which the passing wind doth take up and the impress is gone forever. Long will his memory be cherished by his family and friends.
Obit: Departed this life, at his residence in this county, on the 30th of August last, Geo. W. Thatcher in the 59th year of his age.
He was born in Frederick County, Virginia on the banks of the beautiful and fast rolling Shenandoah, on the 8th of January, 1808, but moved with his father in early youth to Ohio: resided for a time in Mississippi where he married a daughter of the late James S. Montgomery; emigrated to Texas with his family about the beginning of the Revolution and has resided on his plantation near Eagle Lake till the date of his death.
Few of the early settlers of Texas were better known or more esteemed for his many social virtues than the deceased. He was remarkable for his bounteous hospitality, his infinite humor and kindly disposition. His devotion to his family and close attention to his planting interest, in which he was eminently successful, kept him chiefly at his own fireside, where he was always pleased to welcome his numerous friends and to extend to them that warm greeting so characteristic of the Southern planters.
Mr. Thatcher lingered in illness for two years from an attack of paralysis, which caused his death. He was patient and cheerful in all his confinement and met the messenger of his fate with unbalanced firmness and with full confidence of never-ending repose. What is life, when contrasted with his hope of continuos bliss, but the breath upon the mirror, which the passing wind doth take up and the impress is gone forever. Long will his memory be cherished by his family and friends.
Early Texas Settler and a co-founder of the Matthews Plantation. Married to the daughter (Sarah) of James Steen Montgomery.
Obit: Departed this life, at his residence in this county, on the 30th of August last, Geo. W. Thatcher in the 59th year of his age.
He was born in Frederick County, Virginia on the banks of the beautiful and fast rolling Shenandoah, on the 8th of January, 1808, but moved with his father in early youth to Ohio: resided for a time in Mississippi where he married a daughter of the late James S. Montgomery; emigrated to Texas with his family about the beginning of the Revolution and has resided on his plantation near Eagle Lake till the date of his death.
Few of the early settlers of Texas were better known or more esteemed for his many social virtues than the deceased. He was remarkable for his bounteous hospitality, his infinite humor and kindly disposition. His devotion to his family and close attention to his planting interest, in which he was eminently successful, kept him chiefly at his own fireside, where he was always pleased to welcome his numerous friends and to extend to them that warm greeting so characteristic of the Southern planters.
Mr. Thatcher lingered in illness for two years from an attack of paralysis, which caused his death. He was patient and cheerful in all his confinement and met the messenger of his fate with unbalanced firmness and with full confidence of never-ending repose. What is life, when contrasted with his hope of continuos bliss, but the breath upon the mirror, which the passing wind doth take up and the impress is gone forever. Long will his memory be cherished by his family and friends.
Obit: Departed this life, at his residence in this county, on the 30th of August last, Geo. W. Thatcher in the 59th year of his age.
He was born in Frederick County, Virginia on the banks of the beautiful and fast rolling Shenandoah, on the 8th of January, 1808, but moved with his father in early youth to Ohio: resided for a time in Mississippi where he married a daughter of the late James S. Montgomery; emigrated to Texas with his family about the beginning of the Revolution and has resided on his plantation near Eagle Lake till the date of his death.
Few of the early settlers of Texas were better known or more esteemed for his many social virtues than the deceased. He was remarkable for his bounteous hospitality, his infinite humor and kindly disposition. His devotion to his family and close attention to his planting interest, in which he was eminently successful, kept him chiefly at his own fireside, where he was always pleased to welcome his numerous friends and to extend to them that warm greeting so characteristic of the Southern planters.
Mr. Thatcher lingered in illness for two years from an attack of paralysis, which caused his death. He was patient and cheerful in all his confinement and met the messenger of his fate with unbalanced firmness and with full confidence of never-ending repose. What is life, when contrasted with his hope of continuos bliss, but the breath upon the mirror, which the passing wind doth take up and the impress is gone forever. Long will his memory be cherished by his family and friends.
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