Albert Dillard “Bud” Thomas was born March 4, 1844 in the Donaldson Creek community of Trigg County, Kentucky, the second child of Peyton and Sallie Ethridge Thomas. He was a grandson of Cullen and Elizabeth Futrell Thomas.
Albert grew up on his father’s farm and attended Upper Donaldson School which was located near his home. In 1861, with the Civil War looming on the horizon, Albert’s oldest brother, Alfred and his cousin William Bridges, joined a group of volunteers and marched off to service with the Confederate army. Albert was under age but waned to follow in the footsteps of his brother and cousin, so he volunteered as a water boy for the 2nd Kentucky Calvary under command of Colonel Thomas Woodward of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. On his 18th birthday he became a regular in his outfit and served with it throughout action in Southern Kentucky and Western Tennessee.
After the war he married Mary Jonathan Vinson, daughter of Edmund J. and Jacqueline Wimberly Vinson of Stewart County, Tennessee. (In 1870, her sister Nancy Ann, married Albert’s brother Alfred C. Thomas.) They had eight children: Lena, married (1) Thomas Cable, (2) Dill Stavely; Enola C., married Dr. J. M. Skaggs; Lucy D., married Charles W. Roper; Sally, married Frank Cook; James Maston, married Flora Seawright; Fruzzie, married Clete Griffin; Bertie, never married; and John P., died at the age of eight.
Albert D. Thomas lived most of his life in Stewart County, Tennessee, where he died on April 1, 1921. He is buried in the Peyton Thomas Cemetery on Donaldson Creek on the farm where he was born. His wife Mary died May 10, 1929, outliving him by eight years. She is buried in the Hendon Cemetery in Stewart County, Tennessee.
By Edison Thomas, The TBA Newsletter, October, 1992.
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(Albert Dillard Thomas was the son of Peyton and Sarah Ethridge Thomas and the grandson of Cullen and Elizabeth Futrell Thomas. Cullen was the first child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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