Thomas Price, a citizen and cotton planter of the Fourth District, was born
September 6, 1828, in South Carolina; his father being a farmer. He was
raised and worked on a farm until the war, having assumed control of it at the
age of seventeen. He enlisted in the Confederate service in 1861, entering
the Hampton Regiment of South Carolina, but, after the battle of Manassas, he
was discharged on account of ill health, but as soon as sufficiently recovered
he joined the heavy artillery of South Carolina, Second Regiment, and remained
with it until the close of the war, when he resumed farming. Two years later
he came to Tennessee, and located at his present residence, four miles east of
Fulton and two miles south of Fort Pillow, and has since given his attention
to cotton planting with the most successful results. November 1, 1857, he was
married to Susan Chamberlain, daughter of E. H. and Susan Chamberlain. They
have one son — Hammond Ebenezer. Mr. Price is a most worthy and substantial
citizen, scrupulously honest in every act, and a self-made man, of good social
standing. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church,
also of the Masonic lodge at Western Valley.

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN