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[Final.ftw] [Law.ftw] When Thomas was ten, his parrents lived in the house near Daniels MillPond with Peter McEachin and his wife. From 1862 to 1866 Thomas' father,"The Preacher", was pastor of Daniels Meeting House Baptist Church. During this time, the war between the states, Thomas, Jr. was baptizedand became a member of Daniels Meeting House. In 1874 he was electedclerk of this church and served in this office for ten years. This areawas still in Pulaski County until 1870. Phillip Reaves, from theHopewell area in Telfair County (which later became Dodge County), waspastor of Dainels Metting House from 1867 until 1881. In 1880 Thomas, Jr. taught school south of what is now Rhine, Georgia.He boarded with David Yancy and his wife, Sarah Campbell Yancey.Considering the descriptions of geography of the area where he taught,the location was probably what we today call Clark's Schoolhouse.Presently a small, but active, Methodist Church called Oaky Groveoccupies this site. Thomas was a cobbler or shoemaker. He made shoes to fit and alsorepaired shoes. It is said that Thomas was county tax collector forseveral terms in Laurens County. Thomas oftne visited his younger brother, John Mark. Nieces andnephews rember him bouncing them on his knee...his good knee, that is.He was lame in one leg because of a fall from a horse at the age ofsisteen, the year that John Mark was born. Thomas was rembered as beingjolly, but also as having a furious temper which was not often lost.
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