LIEUT COL
10TH TENN REGIMENT
C.S.A.
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(The Florence Times, Friday - July 5, 1912 - p. 4, c. 3, 4)
BURIAL DATE: 30 June 1912
MARRIED: April, 1865 to Miss Jacqueline Thompson
The Late Col. S. M. Thompson
In the early morning hours of June 29th, at his winter home in Biloxi, Miss., the noble and gentle spirit of Col. Samuel Maverick Thompson left its early tenement; and his body was interred in the Florence cemetery on the afternoon of the 30th.
While Col. Thompson had resided in Florence but a few years, and this at a period of life when he had censed to take an active part in business and in social affairs, he will be sadly missed by a large number of our people, who had shared the generous hospitality of his home here and also while he lived at Prides Station, and who have been helped in the struggle of life by his cheerful and happy view.
Col. Thompson was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Thompson, honored and beloved of the early residents of this county. He was born in Lauderdale county in November, 1840, but his parents diedi when he was very young, he was taken to the home of a near relative of his father, Hon. Jacob Thompson, a distinguished statesman, then living at Oxford, Miss., where Col. Thompson received his early education discipline. Upon the appointment of Mr. Jacob Thompson as Secretary of the Interior and his removal to Washington, his ward went with him, and during his incumbency in office young Thompson attended the schools of the District of Columbia. Upon the expiration of Mr. Thompson's term of office he returned with his family to Oxford and entered the University of Mississippi, but subsequently entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was graduated in the last class prior to the Civil War from that famous institution of learning. On the breaking out of hostilities between the Confederate States and the United States, young Thompson, then in his 21st year, espoused with all the ardor and enthusiasm of youth the cause of the Confederacy, and with Col. W. P. Bryan, his brother-in-law, raised a company for the 10th Tennessee regiment, Col. Thompson serving as captain and afterwards as Lieutenant Colonel, succeeding in command on the death of Col. Hindman. He was at Ft. Henry and shared the terrible hardships of the march from Ft. Henry to Ft. Donaldson, where he had the misfortune of being taken a prisoner of war. Col. Thompson was imprisoned at Johnson's Island and spent many weary months in prison, but finally through the persistent efforts of his devoted sister, Mrs. Josephine Hardin, then Mrs. Bryan, he was exchanged at Vicksburg and re-entered the service of the Confederacy. At the battle of Chickamauga he was severely wounded, suffering the loss of a foot, and while convalescing ran the Federal blockade at Wilmington, North Carolina, and with his sister escaped to Cuba, where after a long, tedious delay they secured passage to Cadiz, Spain.
His rank at this time was that of Lieutenant Colonel, and while not able to take the field, he was notified that he was expected to take command of the important post of San Antonio, Texas, and while awaiting orders was in April, 1865, married to Miss Jacqueline Thompson, a famous belle of Colbert county, Ala. A few days later, and while they were preparing to pass through the Federal lines along the Mississippi River together for the faraway post in Texas, he learned of the surrender of Lee's army, and he settled down to the business of peace and the recuperation of the waste places of his beloved section.
His devoted companion after almost half a century of an ideal married life survives him, as does his sister, whose devotion throughout the long career has been notable and beautiful. Col. Thompson's immediate family at the time of his death consisted of his wife and grandson, Hardin Kirby; but he left to cherish his memory a daughter, Mrs. Josephine Ewing of Aberdeen, Miss., and two sons, John P. Thompson of Prides Station and Jos. W. Thompson, of Nashville, Tenn., also his grandsons, Arthur and Sam T. Kirby, who reside in Denver, Colorado.
Col. Thompson had not been engaged in active business operations for several years and was not so well known to the younger generation, but for many years after the war he had both in this county and Colbert large planting and mercantile interests, and his business career was one of fidelity to the highest business principles. His religious convictions were strong and he stood for the uplifting forces at work in society. An honorable and manly representative of the old regime and a courageous representative of the trying period following the civil war, a genial and kindly gentleman of the later period, has passed from our midst.
--Peace to his ashes.
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10TH TENN REGIMENT
C.S.A.
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(The Florence Times, Friday - July 5, 1912 - p. 4, c. 3, 4)
BURIAL DATE: 30 June 1912
MARRIED: April, 1865 to Miss Jacqueline Thompson
The Late Col. S. M. Thompson
In the early morning hours of June 29th, at his winter home in Biloxi, Miss., the noble and gentle spirit of Col. Samuel Maverick Thompson left its early tenement; and his body was interred in the Florence cemetery on the afternoon of the 30th.
While Col. Thompson had resided in Florence but a few years, and this at a period of life when he had censed to take an active part in business and in social affairs, he will be sadly missed by a large number of our people, who had shared the generous hospitality of his home here and also while he lived at Prides Station, and who have been helped in the struggle of life by his cheerful and happy view.
Col. Thompson was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Thompson, honored and beloved of the early residents of this county. He was born in Lauderdale county in November, 1840, but his parents diedi when he was very young, he was taken to the home of a near relative of his father, Hon. Jacob Thompson, a distinguished statesman, then living at Oxford, Miss., where Col. Thompson received his early education discipline. Upon the appointment of Mr. Jacob Thompson as Secretary of the Interior and his removal to Washington, his ward went with him, and during his incumbency in office young Thompson attended the schools of the District of Columbia. Upon the expiration of Mr. Thompson's term of office he returned with his family to Oxford and entered the University of Mississippi, but subsequently entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was graduated in the last class prior to the Civil War from that famous institution of learning. On the breaking out of hostilities between the Confederate States and the United States, young Thompson, then in his 21st year, espoused with all the ardor and enthusiasm of youth the cause of the Confederacy, and with Col. W. P. Bryan, his brother-in-law, raised a company for the 10th Tennessee regiment, Col. Thompson serving as captain and afterwards as Lieutenant Colonel, succeeding in command on the death of Col. Hindman. He was at Ft. Henry and shared the terrible hardships of the march from Ft. Henry to Ft. Donaldson, where he had the misfortune of being taken a prisoner of war. Col. Thompson was imprisoned at Johnson's Island and spent many weary months in prison, but finally through the persistent efforts of his devoted sister, Mrs. Josephine Hardin, then Mrs. Bryan, he was exchanged at Vicksburg and re-entered the service of the Confederacy. At the battle of Chickamauga he was severely wounded, suffering the loss of a foot, and while convalescing ran the Federal blockade at Wilmington, North Carolina, and with his sister escaped to Cuba, where after a long, tedious delay they secured passage to Cadiz, Spain.
His rank at this time was that of Lieutenant Colonel, and while not able to take the field, he was notified that he was expected to take command of the important post of San Antonio, Texas, and while awaiting orders was in April, 1865, married to Miss Jacqueline Thompson, a famous belle of Colbert county, Ala. A few days later, and while they were preparing to pass through the Federal lines along the Mississippi River together for the faraway post in Texas, he learned of the surrender of Lee's army, and he settled down to the business of peace and the recuperation of the waste places of his beloved section.
His devoted companion after almost half a century of an ideal married life survives him, as does his sister, whose devotion throughout the long career has been notable and beautiful. Col. Thompson's immediate family at the time of his death consisted of his wife and grandson, Hardin Kirby; but he left to cherish his memory a daughter, Mrs. Josephine Ewing of Aberdeen, Miss., and two sons, John P. Thompson of Prides Station and Jos. W. Thompson, of Nashville, Tenn., also his grandsons, Arthur and Sam T. Kirby, who reside in Denver, Colorado.
Col. Thompson had not been engaged in active business operations for several years and was not so well known to the younger generation, but for many years after the war he had both in this county and Colbert large planting and mercantile interests, and his business career was one of fidelity to the highest business principles. His religious convictions were strong and he stood for the uplifting forces at work in society. An honorable and manly representative of the old regime and a courageous representative of the trying period following the civil war, a genial and kindly gentleman of the later period, has passed from our midst.
--Peace to his ashes.
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LIEUT COL
10TH TENN REGIMENT
C.S.A.
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(The Florence Times, Friday - July 5, 1912 - p. 4, c. 3, 4)
BURIAL DATE: 30 June 1912
MARRIED: April, 1865 to Miss Jacqueline Thompson
The Late Col. S. M. Thompson
In the early morning hours of June 29th, at his winter home in Biloxi, Miss., the noble and gentle spirit of Col. Samuel Maverick Thompson left its early tenement; and his body was interred in the Florence cemetery on the afternoon of the 30th.
While Col. Thompson had resided in Florence but a few years, and this at a period of life when he had censed to take an active part in business and in social affairs, he will be sadly missed by a large number of our people, who had shared the generous hospitality of his home here and also while he lived at Prides Station, and who have been helped in the struggle of life by his cheerful and happy view.
Col. Thompson was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Thompson, honored and beloved of the early residents of this county. He was born in Lauderdale county in November, 1840, but his parents diedi when he was very young, he was taken to the home of a near relative of his father, Hon. Jacob Thompson, a distinguished statesman, then living at Oxford, Miss., where Col. Thompson received his early education discipline. Upon the appointment of Mr. Jacob Thompson as Secretary of the Interior and his removal to Washington, his ward went with him, and during his incumbency in office young Thompson attended the schools of the District of Columbia. Upon the expiration of Mr. Thompson's term of office he returned with his family to Oxford and entered the University of Mississippi, but subsequently entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was graduated in the last class prior to the Civil War from that famous institution of learning. On the breaking out of hostilities between the Confederate States and the United States, young Thompson, then in his 21st year, espoused with all the ardor and enthusiasm of youth the cause of the Confederacy, and with Col. W. P. Bryan, his brother-in-law, raised a company for the 10th Tennessee regiment, Col. Thompson serving as captain and afterwards as Lieutenant Colonel, succeeding in command on the death of Col. Hindman. He was at Ft. Henry and shared the terrible hardships of the march from Ft. Henry to Ft. Donaldson, where he had the misfortune of being taken a prisoner of war. Col. Thompson was imprisoned at Johnson's Island and spent many weary months in prison, but finally through the persistent efforts of his devoted sister, Mrs. Josephine Hardin, then Mrs. Bryan, he was exchanged at Vicksburg and re-entered the service of the Confederacy. At the battle of Chickamauga he was severely wounded, suffering the loss of a foot, and while convalescing ran the Federal blockade at Wilmington, North Carolina, and with his sister escaped to Cuba, where after a long, tedious delay they secured passage to Cadiz, Spain.
His rank at this time was that of Lieutenant Colonel, and while not able to take the field, he was notified that he was expected to take command of the important post of San Antonio, Texas, and while awaiting orders was in April, 1865, married to Miss Jacqueline Thompson, a famous belle of Colbert county, Ala. A few days later, and while they were preparing to pass through the Federal lines along the Mississippi River together for the faraway post in Texas, he learned of the surrender of Lee's army, and he settled down to the business of peace and the recuperation of the waste places of his beloved section.
His devoted companion after almost half a century of an ideal married life survives him, as does his sister, whose devotion throughout the long career has been notable and beautiful. Col. Thompson's immediate family at the time of his death consisted of his wife and grandson, Hardin Kirby; but he left to cherish his memory a daughter, Mrs. Josephine Ewing of Aberdeen, Miss., and two sons, John P. Thompson of Prides Station and Jos. W. Thompson, of Nashville, Tenn., also his grandsons, Arthur and Sam T. Kirby, who reside in Denver, Colorado.
Col. Thompson had not been engaged in active business operations for several years and was not so well known to the younger generation, but for many years after the war he had both in this county and Colbert large planting and mercantile interests, and his business career was one of fidelity to the highest business principles. His religious convictions were strong and he stood for the uplifting forces at work in society. An honorable and manly representative of the old regime and a courageous representative of the trying period following the civil war, a genial and kindly gentleman of the later period, has passed from our midst.
--Peace to his ashes.
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10TH TENN REGIMENT
C.S.A.
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(The Florence Times, Friday - July 5, 1912 - p. 4, c. 3, 4)
BURIAL DATE: 30 June 1912
MARRIED: April, 1865 to Miss Jacqueline Thompson
The Late Col. S. M. Thompson
In the early morning hours of June 29th, at his winter home in Biloxi, Miss., the noble and gentle spirit of Col. Samuel Maverick Thompson left its early tenement; and his body was interred in the Florence cemetery on the afternoon of the 30th.
While Col. Thompson had resided in Florence but a few years, and this at a period of life when he had censed to take an active part in business and in social affairs, he will be sadly missed by a large number of our people, who had shared the generous hospitality of his home here and also while he lived at Prides Station, and who have been helped in the struggle of life by his cheerful and happy view.
Col. Thompson was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Thompson, honored and beloved of the early residents of this county. He was born in Lauderdale county in November, 1840, but his parents diedi when he was very young, he was taken to the home of a near relative of his father, Hon. Jacob Thompson, a distinguished statesman, then living at Oxford, Miss., where Col. Thompson received his early education discipline. Upon the appointment of Mr. Jacob Thompson as Secretary of the Interior and his removal to Washington, his ward went with him, and during his incumbency in office young Thompson attended the schools of the District of Columbia. Upon the expiration of Mr. Thompson's term of office he returned with his family to Oxford and entered the University of Mississippi, but subsequently entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was graduated in the last class prior to the Civil War from that famous institution of learning. On the breaking out of hostilities between the Confederate States and the United States, young Thompson, then in his 21st year, espoused with all the ardor and enthusiasm of youth the cause of the Confederacy, and with Col. W. P. Bryan, his brother-in-law, raised a company for the 10th Tennessee regiment, Col. Thompson serving as captain and afterwards as Lieutenant Colonel, succeeding in command on the death of Col. Hindman. He was at Ft. Henry and shared the terrible hardships of the march from Ft. Henry to Ft. Donaldson, where he had the misfortune of being taken a prisoner of war. Col. Thompson was imprisoned at Johnson's Island and spent many weary months in prison, but finally through the persistent efforts of his devoted sister, Mrs. Josephine Hardin, then Mrs. Bryan, he was exchanged at Vicksburg and re-entered the service of the Confederacy. At the battle of Chickamauga he was severely wounded, suffering the loss of a foot, and while convalescing ran the Federal blockade at Wilmington, North Carolina, and with his sister escaped to Cuba, where after a long, tedious delay they secured passage to Cadiz, Spain.
His rank at this time was that of Lieutenant Colonel, and while not able to take the field, he was notified that he was expected to take command of the important post of San Antonio, Texas, and while awaiting orders was in April, 1865, married to Miss Jacqueline Thompson, a famous belle of Colbert county, Ala. A few days later, and while they were preparing to pass through the Federal lines along the Mississippi River together for the faraway post in Texas, he learned of the surrender of Lee's army, and he settled down to the business of peace and the recuperation of the waste places of his beloved section.
His devoted companion after almost half a century of an ideal married life survives him, as does his sister, whose devotion throughout the long career has been notable and beautiful. Col. Thompson's immediate family at the time of his death consisted of his wife and grandson, Hardin Kirby; but he left to cherish his memory a daughter, Mrs. Josephine Ewing of Aberdeen, Miss., and two sons, John P. Thompson of Prides Station and Jos. W. Thompson, of Nashville, Tenn., also his grandsons, Arthur and Sam T. Kirby, who reside in Denver, Colorado.
Col. Thompson had not been engaged in active business operations for several years and was not so well known to the younger generation, but for many years after the war he had both in this county and Colbert large planting and mercantile interests, and his business career was one of fidelity to the highest business principles. His religious convictions were strong and he stood for the uplifting forces at work in society. An honorable and manly representative of the old regime and a courageous representative of the trying period following the civil war, a genial and kindly gentleman of the later period, has passed from our midst.
--Peace to his ashes.
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