Glidewell, Thomas Henderson

Summary

Father: Thomas Glidewell
Mother: Susan Allen

Birth: 1819, Wake County, North Carolina
Birth Source: Census

Death: 1899, Saline County, Arkansas
Death Source: Gravestone Photo, Glidewell Cemetery

Spouse1: Letha A. Simmmons, m. 23 Jul 1838, Lincoln County, Tennessee
Spouse2: Martha Leech, m. 23 Dec 1858, Saline County, Arkansas
Spouse3: Malissa Mayo, m. 18 Aug 1873, Saline County, Arkansas, divorced.
Spouse4: Susan Raney, m. 6 Apr 1875, Saline County, Arkansas

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Narrative

Children of Thomas Henderson Glidewell and Letha Simmons:

1. Drucilla Glidewell, b. 1840
2. John Glidewell, b. 1842
3. Hezekiah Glidewell, b. 1844
4. Mary L. Glidewell, b. 1848
5. Frances J. Glidewell, b. 1850
6. Harry T. Glidewell, b. 1854
7. Alfred H. Glidewell, b. 1856

Children of Thomas Henderson Glidewell and Martha Leech:

1. John Henry Glidewell, b. 1871

Children of Thomas Henderson Glidewell and Susan Raney:

1. Finis Glidewell, b. 1877
2. Nellie Glidewell, b. 1879
3. Angie Glidewell, b. 1881
4. William Glidewell, b. 1883
5. Samuel Glidewell, b. 1884
6. Winnie Glidewell, b. 1887 (twin to Wyatt)
7. Wyatt Glidewell, b. 1887 (twin to Winnie)
8. Fred Hughes Glidewell, b. 1890

Thomas H. Glidewell farmed for ten years in central Tennessee before joining a colony of thirty-one families enroute to Dallas County, Texas. A Mr. Mercer received a large tract of land from the Territory provided he would settle it by a certain date. Most of the colonists died there, among them Thomas' father-in-law and brother-in-law followed by his mother-in-law four years later. Although he held title to 1,280 acres, his own portion and as heir to that of his wife's family's portion, he felt the locality was "unhealthy" and left there settling in 1847 on the Saline River. For two years, he acted as overseer for Green B. Hughes and in 1851 bought 160 acres for 12½ cents per acre.

He served a few months in the Confederate home guards and was taken to Little Rock by the United States troops and imprisoned for three weeks.

Thomas H. Glidewell was married four times and father to 16 known children.

He served for three years as a justice of the peace in Saline County and for nine years served his township as constable.

He was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.

Sources

Biography from History of Saline County, Arkansas
1850 Census - Saline District, Saline County, Arkansas
1860 Census - Owen, Saline County, Arkansas
1870 Census - Saline, Saline County, Arkansas
1880 Census - Saline, Saline County, Arkansas
1900 Census - Saline, Saline County, Arkansas
Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, online database at Ancestry.com
Arkansas Marriages, 1820-1949, online database at Ancestry.com
Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
Find A Grave, Gravestone Photo