Thomas Marshall Summers Sr. (abt. 1780 - abt. 1864)

Born about 1780 in Guilford, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Priscilla Summers — married 3 Dec 1804 in Sumner, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died about 5 Oct 1864 at about age 84 in Eastern, Franklin, Illinois, USA

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Biography

Pvt. Thomas Summers Sr. served for Tennessee in the War of 1812
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Thomas was born about 1782 in North Carolina. In 1804 he married Celia Summers in Tennessee.^[1] He passed away about 1864 in Illinois.^[2] He was the son of James Joseph Summers and Mary (Jackson) Summers.

During the War of 1812, Thomas Summers was a Private in Captain John Doak's Company/Captain John Dobbins' Company, Colonel Thomas Williamson's 2nd Regiment Western Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen.^[3]

Thomas served from September, 1814 to April, 1815, participating in the Battle of Pensacola Nov 7, 1814 and the Battle of New Orleans Dec 23, 1814 and Jan 8, 1815.

Along with Col Robert Dyer's unit, this regiment was part of Gen John Coffee's brigade that fought at Pensacola and New Orleans. Marching from Fayetteville to Camp Gaines, 30 miles from Ft Montgomery, they helped Jackson take the port of Pensacola from the Spanish on Nov 7, 1814. Williamson's men then participated in all of the engagements at New Orleans, where they were part of the left line of Jackson's breastworks. In March 1815 they returned to Tennessee via the Natchez Trace.

Sources

1. ↑ "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNZY-N5D : 4 December 2014), Thomas Summers and Celia Summers, 03 Dec 1804; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. , Sumner, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
2. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 September 2020), memorial page for Thomas M Summers (1780–5 Oct 1864), Find A Grave: Memorial #64576420, citing Mount Etna United Methodist Church Cemetery, Akin, Franklin County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by janicet (contributor 47361005) .
3. ↑ "Franklin County, Illinois, 1818-1997, p. 158 re: Thomas Summers.

See also:

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M855-F48 : 20 December 2020), Thomas Somers, Franklin, Illinois, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXC3-Q14 : 18 February 2021), Thomas Summers, 1860.