Thomas Hamilton Wier
Thomas was the son of James Wier Jr. and Elizabeth Evans. He married Martha Anne Spears.
In 1866 he had bought the Robert Williams plantation in the forks of the Skuna and Yalobusha Rivers six miles east of Grenada and the community was called Wier Springs. There was a Wier Springs School and Wier Springs Baptist Church there as well. This is now under Lake Grenada. His daughter Ida inherited the place. Her brother Thomas Frank Weir's plantation was also called Weir Springs and the house stood a mile southeast of his parents' on a high hill called Weir's Hill which was also demolished for the lake though the house site is above the lake, on the east bank of Knight's Creek which flows through Weir's Hollow.
He and his brother Champ still had jet black hair in old age, though a snow white beard, as had their father and several of their sons. Several daughters and grandchildren had dark hair well into their 70s and sometimes 80s. The family always said that was the Irish in them.
The tombstone has the incorrect birth date of 1836, but the census shows he was born in Alabama in 1830, matching the bible and the age at death given in the obituary.
He was baptized Aug. 15, 1830, at New Hope Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Greene Co., AL. at 14 weeks of age.
He was actually born in Greene Co., Ala., though the Wier-Creekmore Genealogy said Pickens Co. The family lived in both counties.
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Civil War Record
May 1, 1864: T.H. Wier enlisted at Graysport, Miss.: (also spelled T.H. Weir in file records)
Pvt., Co. K., 8th Regiment, Miss. Cavalry (CSA)
Duff's Regiment, Rucker's Brigade
Jan. 14, 1865: 30-day furlough granted at Grenada, MS. For gunshot wound to extension
May 19, 1865: Roll of Prisoners of War of detailed men, Post of Grenada, Miss. CSA, commanded by -----(S.S.Angevine), surrendered at Citronelle, Ala. by Lieut. Gen. R. Taylor, CSA, to Maj. Gen. ERS Canby, USA., May 4, 1865, and paroled at Grenada, Miss., May 19, 1865.
Mississippi Official and Statistical Register (1900) by Dunbar Rowland, p. 60:
County Officials:
County Office Name
Grenada Treasurer T.H. Weir
Thomas was the son of James Wier Jr. and Elizabeth Evans. He married Martha Anne Spears.
In 1866 he had bought the Robert Williams plantation in the forks of the Skuna and Yalobusha Rivers six miles east of Grenada and the community was called Wier Springs. There was a Wier Springs School and Wier Springs Baptist Church there as well. This is now under Lake Grenada. His daughter Ida inherited the place. Her brother Thomas Frank Weir's plantation was also called Weir Springs and the house stood a mile southeast of his parents' on a high hill called Weir's Hill which was also demolished for the lake though the house site is above the lake, on the east bank of Knight's Creek which flows through Weir's Hollow.
He and his brother Champ still had jet black hair in old age, though a snow white beard, as had their father and several of their sons. Several daughters and grandchildren had dark hair well into their 70s and sometimes 80s. The family always said that was the Irish in them.
The tombstone has the incorrect birth date of 1836, but the census shows he was born in Alabama in 1830, matching the bible and the age at death given in the obituary.
He was baptized Aug. 15, 1830, at New Hope Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Greene Co., AL. at 14 weeks of age.
He was actually born in Greene Co., Ala., though the Wier-Creekmore Genealogy said Pickens Co. The family lived in both counties.
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Civil War Record
May 1, 1864: T.H. Wier enlisted at Graysport, Miss.: (also spelled T.H. Weir in file records)
Pvt., Co. K., 8th Regiment, Miss. Cavalry (CSA)
Duff's Regiment, Rucker's Brigade
Jan. 14, 1865: 30-day furlough granted at Grenada, MS. For gunshot wound to extension
May 19, 1865: Roll of Prisoners of War of detailed men, Post of Grenada, Miss. CSA, commanded by -----(S.S.Angevine), surrendered at Citronelle, Ala. by Lieut. Gen. R. Taylor, CSA, to Maj. Gen. ERS Canby, USA., May 4, 1865, and paroled at Grenada, Miss., May 19, 1865.
Mississippi Official and Statistical Register (1900) by Dunbar Rowland, p. 60:
County Officials:
County Office Name
Grenada Treasurer T.H. Weir
Thomas Hamilton Wier
Thomas was the son of James Wier Jr. and Elizabeth Evans. He married Martha Anne Spears.
In 1866 he had bought the Robert Williams plantation in the forks of the Skuna and Yalobusha Rivers six miles east of Grenada and the community was called Wier Springs. There was a Wier Springs School and Wier Springs Baptist Church there as well. This is now under Lake Grenada. His daughter Ida inherited the place. Her brother Thomas Frank Weir's plantation was also called Weir Springs and the house stood a mile southeast of his parents' on a high hill called Weir's Hill which was also demolished for the lake though the house site is above the lake, on the east bank of Knight's Creek which flows through Weir's Hollow.
He and his brother Champ still had jet black hair in old age, though a snow white beard, as had their father and several of their sons. Several daughters and grandchildren had dark hair well into their 70s and sometimes 80s. The family always said that was the Irish in them.
The tombstone has the incorrect birth date of 1836, but the census shows he was born in Alabama in 1830, matching the bible and the age at death given in the obituary.
He was baptized Aug. 15, 1830, at New Hope Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Greene Co., AL. at 14 weeks of age.
He was actually born in Greene Co., Ala., though the Wier-Creekmore Genealogy said Pickens Co. The family lived in both counties.
==========================================
Civil War Record
May 1, 1864: T.H. Wier enlisted at Graysport, Miss.: (also spelled T.H. Weir in file records)
Pvt., Co. K., 8th Regiment, Miss. Cavalry (CSA)
Duff's Regiment, Rucker's Brigade
Jan. 14, 1865: 30-day furlough granted at Grenada, MS. For gunshot wound to extension
May 19, 1865: Roll of Prisoners of War of detailed men, Post of Grenada, Miss. CSA, commanded by -----(S.S.Angevine), surrendered at Citronelle, Ala. by Lieut. Gen. R. Taylor, CSA, to Maj. Gen. ERS Canby, USA., May 4, 1865, and paroled at Grenada, Miss., May 19, 1865.
Mississippi Official and Statistical Register (1900) by Dunbar Rowland, p. 60:
County Officials:
County Office Name
Grenada Treasurer T.H. Weir
Thomas was the son of James Wier Jr. and Elizabeth Evans. He married Martha Anne Spears.
In 1866 he had bought the Robert Williams plantation in the forks of the Skuna and Yalobusha Rivers six miles east of Grenada and the community was called Wier Springs. There was a Wier Springs School and Wier Springs Baptist Church there as well. This is now under Lake Grenada. His daughter Ida inherited the place. Her brother Thomas Frank Weir's plantation was also called Weir Springs and the house stood a mile southeast of his parents' on a high hill called Weir's Hill which was also demolished for the lake though the house site is above the lake, on the east bank of Knight's Creek which flows through Weir's Hollow.
He and his brother Champ still had jet black hair in old age, though a snow white beard, as had their father and several of their sons. Several daughters and grandchildren had dark hair well into their 70s and sometimes 80s. The family always said that was the Irish in them.
The tombstone has the incorrect birth date of 1836, but the census shows he was born in Alabama in 1830, matching the bible and the age at death given in the obituary.
He was baptized Aug. 15, 1830, at New Hope Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Greene Co., AL. at 14 weeks of age.
He was actually born in Greene Co., Ala., though the Wier-Creekmore Genealogy said Pickens Co. The family lived in both counties.
==========================================
Civil War Record
May 1, 1864: T.H. Wier enlisted at Graysport, Miss.: (also spelled T.H. Weir in file records)
Pvt., Co. K., 8th Regiment, Miss. Cavalry (CSA)
Duff's Regiment, Rucker's Brigade
Jan. 14, 1865: 30-day furlough granted at Grenada, MS. For gunshot wound to extension
May 19, 1865: Roll of Prisoners of War of detailed men, Post of Grenada, Miss. CSA, commanded by -----(S.S.Angevine), surrendered at Citronelle, Ala. by Lieut. Gen. R. Taylor, CSA, to Maj. Gen. ERS Canby, USA., May 4, 1865, and paroled at Grenada, Miss., May 19, 1865.
Mississippi Official and Statistical Register (1900) by Dunbar Rowland, p. 60:
County Officials:
County Office Name
Grenada Treasurer T.H. Weir
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