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Thomas Price, a citizen and cotton planter of the Fourth District, was born September 6, 1828, in South Carolina; his father being a farmer. He was raised and worked on a farm until the war, having assumed control of it at the age of seventeen. He enlisted in the Confederate service in 1861, entering the Hampton Regiment of South Carolina, but after the battle of Manassas, he was discharged on account of ill health, but as soon as sufficiently recovered he joined the heavy artillery of South Carolina, Second Regiment, and remained with it until the close of the war, when he resumed farming. Two years later he came to Tennessee, and located at his present residence, four miles east of Fulton and two miles south of Fort Pillow, and has since given his attention to cotton planting with the most successful results. November 1, 1857, he was married to Susan Chamberlain, daughter of E. H. and Susan Chamberlain. They have one son— Hammond Ebenezer. Mr. Price is a most worthy and substantial citizen, scrupulously honest in every act, and a self-made man, of good social standing. He is a Democrat, and a member of the Missionary Baptist Church, also of the Masonic lodge at Western Valley.