Father: Capt. John Stone Means, Sr.
Mother: Mary Barringer Holton
08/01/1850 - Farmer, Hopewell District, Mecklenburg Co., NC (living with parents - indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as Theophilus Means)
1859 - M.D. degree, University of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, Philadelphia, PA (from: NC; thesis: "Erysipelas")
07/30/1860 - Practiced medicine, Western District, Mecklenburg Co., NC (lived with his parents - indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as Theophilus Means)
05/03/1861 - Enlisted as 1st Lt., Co. B, 5th NC Infantry, Monroe, Union Co., NC [this regiment subsequently became the 15th NC Infantry (State Troops)]
05/25/1861 - Ordered to rendevous at Garyburg, NC (Camp of Instruction)
06/10/1861 - Mustered-in to Confederate service
06/18/1861 - Appointed, 1st Lt., Provisional Army of the Confederate States
06/30/1861 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 5th NC Infantry
08/26/1861 - 1st Lt. T. H. Means added to his receipt for pay, "Company B, 5th Regt N.C. Vol., (known as Monroe Light Infantry) was recd into service of the state of N.C. on the 3rd of May 1861, ordered to rendezvous at Garysburg (Camp of Instruction) N.C. on the 25th May 1861, mustered into the service on the 10th of June, 1861. T. H. Means, 1st Lieut, Comp B, 5th N.C. Vols."
08/31/1861 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 5th NC Infantry, Camp Clarke
09/22/1861 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 5th NC Infantry
12/00/1861 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 15th NC Infantry
01/00/1862 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 15th NC Infantry, Camp Dudley, VA
02/00/1862 - 1st Lt., Co. B, 15th NC Infantry, Camp Dudley, VA
05/02/1862 - Not re-elected 1st Lt. upon the reorganization of the regiment
09/00/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon, Evans' Battalion North Carolina Partisan Rangers, camp near Kinston, NC
10/18/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 10/18/1862
10/18/1862 - Ordered to report to the 63rd NC Infantry State Troops
10/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 63rd NC Infantry State Troops, Camp Long, Garysburg, NC
12/25/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 63rd NC Infantry State Troops, Camp Long, Garysburg, NC
11/15/1862 - In a letter from Garysburg, North Carolina to an unknown person [probably to a Confederate Medical Director or the Confederate Surgeon General], "Sir, I commenced acting as Asst. Surgeon of [?Maj Evans'] Battalion on the 7th of August with the recommendation for Asst. Surgeon as soon as the Regt was formed. I was appointed Asst Surgeon of it by the Secretary of War which appointment I now hold and have been acting under my appointment since the 18th of Oct, that is I have signed all requisitions and other business in my department as Asst. Surgeon believing that it had been communicated to you through the Inspector & Adjutant Genl Office. . . . T. H. Means"
12/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 63rd NC Infantry State Troops, near Kinston, NC
01/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 63rd NC Infantry State Troops, near Hamilton [?NC]
02/08/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 63rd NC Infantry State Troops, Kinston, NC
04/04/1863 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from NC by the Confederate States Senate
04/08/1863 - Tendered resignation as Asst. Surgeon, 63rd NC Infantry State Troops
05/18/1863 - Purchased 2 yards of grey army cloth from a quartermaster, Richmond, Virginia, for seven dollars per yard
01/01/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 5th NC Cavalry (63rd NC State Troops)
01/26/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 5th NC Cavalry (63rd NC State Troops), Milford Station [?VA]
07/01/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 5th NC Cavalry (63rd NC State Troops)
12/31/1864 - Asst. Surgeon, 5th NC Cavalry (63rd NC State Troops), Stony Creek
05/17/1865 - As Asst. Surgeon, paroled by the U. S. Army, Charlotte, NC
~1868 - Married, Nancy "Nannie" LeeCraft (1850-1869)
11/30/1869 - Wife, Nancy, died in NC (?Charlotte)
06/22/1870 - Practiced medicine, First Ward, Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., NC (living with his parents - indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as "Thophelin Means")
1874,1877 - Practiced medicine, Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., NC
05/12/1877 - Father, John, died
07/09/1879 - Died, Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., NC

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
01/02/2016. Unpublished database.

The following was added by an earlier manager of this memorial:

Husband of Nancy "Nannie" Leecraft Means, and they had one son, James Wilbur Means.
Son of Capt John Stone Means and Mary Barringer Holton Means

Saturday, July 12, 1879, MONROE ENQUIRER (Union County, NC)

- Dr. Theophilus H. MEANS Died in Charlotte on the evening of the 9th, after a lingering illness of several weeks. He was formerly a citizen of Monroe, having located here before the war and was a member of the MLI.