Week 31 of #52Ancestor Challenge was "Oldest". Next weeks' challenge is "Youngest". I decided to write about the oldest and the youngest sons of Allen and Elizabeth Sanders Adamson. So this post is about "Oldest"-the oldest son of Allen and Elizabeth.
Thomas Adamson was born in about 1836 in Illinois. He was apparently named after Elizabeth's father, Thomas Saunders.
The family moved from Illinois to Missouri around 1842. By that time, Thomas had a sister Nancy, and a brother William. In 1850, the family was living in Crawford County, Missouri. At that time, there were eight children listed in the family.
Around 1858. Thomas' mother, Elizabeth, died. There were then twelve children in the family. For an unknown reason, After Thomas' mother died, Thomas' father (Allen) left Missouri and went back to Kentucky to live with his father. Allen's children were all sent to live with Elizabeth's relatives (mostly her siblings). Thomas was listed in the 1860 census living with Robert and Margaret Reeves (Margaret was Elizabeth Saunders Adamson's sister). Thomas' sisters, Sarah and Polly, were also living with the Reeves family. Thomas was twenty-five years old in 1860.
When age twenty-seven, Thomas went and enlisted to serve in the War of the Rebellion. He enlisted on the 1st of February in 1862. He was originally in the 10th MO Infantry Company C-CSA. In November of 1862, Thomas joined up with his uncle Peter Saunders' unit (4th MO Cavalry Company E-CSA). He was listed as a Blacksmith. Thomas was captured on the 24th of September in 1863 in Perry County, Arkansas. In December of 1863, Thomas was listed on the Roll of Prisoners of War and political prisoners received at Gratiot Street Military Prison (in St. Louis, MO). He was transferred to the Rock Island Illinois Prison on the 18th of January in 1864.
Thomas died while a Prisoner of War at Rock Island, Illinois on the 13th of February in 1864. He died of Catarrh Fever. He is buried in the Rock Island Cemetery, Grave #475. He was about twenty-eight years old.
I have not found any other records regarding Thomas. It is assumed that he never married. His life seems very sad to me. His mother died when he was twenty-two years old, his father left the family, he joined the Confederacy, was captured and died. I wonder if anyone has ever visited his grave. Maybe I should.
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