Born to Jesse Cliett (c. 1775-?) & Rhoda Harvey Cliett (c. 1775-c. 1845 in AL), who married in 1790 in Richmond County, GA.

Thomas married 1) Jane "Jensy" Rowe (1796-1835) on April 14, 1817, in Warren County, GA.

Seven children:
• Elizabeth Edna "Betsey" Cliett Haralson (1821-1910)
• John Wade Hampton Cliett (1823-1906)
• Rhoda Jane Cliett Durham (1824-after 1873 in MS; grave unknown)
• Eliza M. Cliett Mosely (1825-after 1875 in AL; grave unknown)
• Thomas Andrew Jackson Cliett (1826-1895)
• Wilson L. Cliett (1832-1873)
• Nathaniel Marion Cliett (1834-1906)


Thomas married 2) Edilda Henry Quin (1813-1875) about 1835 in Floyd County, GA. The family moved to Caldwell County, TX, in 1859 from Mississippi.

Ten children:
• Hugh Losson Cliett (1836 in Fayette, GA-c. 1862 in Civil War)
• Harvey Bailey Cliett (15 May 1838 in Fayette, GA-c. 1863 in Civil War)
• Frances "Fannie" Ella Carruth Cliett Palmer (1839 in AL-1884)
• Albert Gallatin Cliett (1840-c. 1864 in Civil War; twin to William)
• William Henry Cliett (1840-1910; twin to Albert)
• Anson B. "Anderson" Cliett (1842 in Chambers, AL-c. 1864 in Civil War)
• Mary Edilda Victoria Cliett Compton (1843 in Chambers, AL-1929)
• Peter Quin Cliett (1844-1915)
• Josephine Cliett Hager (1846-1869)
• Zachary Taylor Cliett (1847-1892)

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Thomas & Edilda Cliett lost four of their sons to the Civil War. Three years after the close of the war, Thomas died. The next year, Edilda's 23-year-old daughter died. Even now, the loss this family experienced is devastating.

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In 1875, a month after the death of Edilda, four of Thomas' children by his first wife, Jane Cliett, sued Edilda's estate and its executor, Aaron Compton, to recover what they thought was their rightful inheritance as dictated in Thomas' will of 1868. Google Cliett v. Cliett to read the entire case and its outcome. In it, all the living children of Thomas' first wife are named.

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Cemetery directions: In Martindale, TX, take Main St. south as it turns into CR 103 (SE River Road) veering left. Take a right at Pecan Valley (PR 2032). The cemetery is on this road on the left well before it dead ends. Just after passing a stone house, the cemetery is to the right. It's on private land, surrounded by iron piping to keep cows out. All 3 stones are laying flat on the ground.