His parents were both born in South Carolina. According to family lore they moved to Tennessee about 1820.
Thomas assisted in the Cherokee Indian removal in 1838, serving with the 2nd Tennessee Volunteers. (Military records describe him as six feet tall, with black hair, blue eyes, and a dark complexion.)
Married first wife Elizabeth Arminda Stephens December 19, 1845 in Rhea Co. Tennessee.
He joined the U.S. Army in 1846 and fought in the war with Mexico.
Thomas and his family moved to Gilmer Co. Georgia in 1850.
He enlisted in the Confederate Army at Dalton, Ga. September 19, 1861 and served as a 1st Sgt. in Co F 60th Ga Infantry Regt. He was discharged due to illness April 16, 1864.
Following the death of his wife Elizabeth in 1868, he married his second wife Francis Feribee Pence Moreland (daughter of Leroy and Ann Waters Pence).
His was the largest Davis family who ever lived in Gilmer Co. Georgia.
Thomas assisted in the Cherokee Indian removal in 1838, serving with the 2nd Tennessee Volunteers. (Military records describe him as six feet tall, with black hair, blue eyes, and a dark complexion.)
Married first wife Elizabeth Arminda Stephens December 19, 1845 in Rhea Co. Tennessee.
He joined the U.S. Army in 1846 and fought in the war with Mexico.
Thomas and his family moved to Gilmer Co. Georgia in 1850.
He enlisted in the Confederate Army at Dalton, Ga. September 19, 1861 and served as a 1st Sgt. in Co F 60th Ga Infantry Regt. He was discharged due to illness April 16, 1864.
Following the death of his wife Elizabeth in 1868, he married his second wife Francis Feribee Pence Moreland (daughter of Leroy and Ann Waters Pence).
His was the largest Davis family who ever lived in Gilmer Co. Georgia.
His parents were both born in South Carolina. According to family lore they moved to Tennessee about 1820.
Thomas assisted in the Cherokee Indian removal in 1838, serving with the 2nd Tennessee Volunteers. (Military records describe him as six feet tall, with black hair, blue eyes, and a dark complexion.)
Married first wife Elizabeth Arminda Stephens December 19, 1845 in Rhea Co. Tennessee.
He joined the U.S. Army in 1846 and fought in the war with Mexico.
Thomas and his family moved to Gilmer Co. Georgia in 1850.
He enlisted in the Confederate Army at Dalton, Ga. September 19, 1861 and served as a 1st Sgt. in Co F 60th Ga Infantry Regt. He was discharged due to illness April 16, 1864.
Following the death of his wife Elizabeth in 1868, he married his second wife Francis Feribee Pence Moreland (daughter of Leroy and Ann Waters Pence).
His was the largest Davis family who ever lived in Gilmer Co. Georgia.
Thomas assisted in the Cherokee Indian removal in 1838, serving with the 2nd Tennessee Volunteers. (Military records describe him as six feet tall, with black hair, blue eyes, and a dark complexion.)
Married first wife Elizabeth Arminda Stephens December 19, 1845 in Rhea Co. Tennessee.
He joined the U.S. Army in 1846 and fought in the war with Mexico.
Thomas and his family moved to Gilmer Co. Georgia in 1850.
He enlisted in the Confederate Army at Dalton, Ga. September 19, 1861 and served as a 1st Sgt. in Co F 60th Ga Infantry Regt. He was discharged due to illness April 16, 1864.
Following the death of his wife Elizabeth in 1868, he married his second wife Francis Feribee Pence Moreland (daughter of Leroy and Ann Waters Pence).
His was the largest Davis family who ever lived in Gilmer Co. Georgia.
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