Thomas Henry Crofford Dedmon

Thomas’s family migrated from Brushy Creek, Rutherford County, NC to East Chickamauga, Walker County, GA around 1846 or 1847 when Thomas was just an infant. He enlisted 1 July 1861 in Dalton, GA being fifteen years old as T. H. Dedmon in Company H (Wright Infantry), 2nd Regiment Georgia Infantry by Captain Glenn. He was wounded at Garnett’s Farm, VA on 27 June 1862 and was also listed as wounded at the Battle of Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862.

In action above the Lower (Burnsides's) Bridge at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was again in action, including at Chickamauga, TN, in September 1863.

He returned home at the end of the War. He married Martha Davidson in 1867 and was living in Frick's Gap, Walker County, GA at the 1870 Census. Thomas moved his family to Chattanooga, TN in 1875. In 1889 Thomas and wife Martha purchased a thirteen and a quarter acre vegetable farm in Bartlebaugh, Harrison, Hamilton County, TN. They had 6 children. He remarried in 1891 Martha Ellen Jones, then 22 years old. They had 5 children by 1902. Thomas started the Missionary Baptist Church on Harrison Pike in Bartlebaugh in 1898 - later the Bartlebaugh Baptist Church. By 1906 he was too ill to work his vegetable farm, and moved with Mary Ellen to join his sons Mark and Samuel in Heavener, LeFlore County, OK.

Basic information from research in family history and pension application by GGGrandson Tim Dedmon, who also kindly provided a post-War picture of T.H. Dedmon. His gravesite is online from Findagrave.

09/20/1846; Brushy Creek, NC

09/27/1910; Heavener, OK; burial in Oakdale Cemetery, Heavener, OK