Maj. Charles Edward Thomas, (CSA)

Charles Edward Thomas (1844–1887), the son of John Peyre Thomas (1796–1859) and his second wife, Charlotte Henrietta Couturier (1817–1892), was born at Mt. Hope Plantation near Ridgeway, in present-day Fairfield County, South Carolina. He attended King’s Mountain Military School in York, South Carolina and was a student at Arsenal Academy in Columbia in 1861 when he entered Confederate service as a sergeant in the Sixteenth Regiment, South Carolina Infantry. Due to illness, he was reassigned to Columbia in 1863, and served as a drill master at a camp of instruction for the remainder of the war.

He married Anne Cubit Thomas (1840–1916), the daughter of Samuel Peyre Thomas (1804–1854) and Jane Fears Rosborough (1811–1883), in 1870, and by 1874 the two had settled in her family home, Magnolia, near Ridgeway. They would have seven children between 1871 and 1885. He oversaw the agricultural activity at Magnolia with his brother-in-law John Rosborough Thomas (1836–1897), served one term in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1880–1882, and was active in the administration of St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Ridgeway. Charles Edward Thomas died on 1 February 1887 and is buried at St. Stephens.

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