A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Thomas Wesley Brents Jr.
From the Brents Genealogy Ancestry World Tree page:
On a 1899 Marshall Co., TN Map there is a Dr. T. W. Brent's office located at Lewisburg, TN. He also owned property approximately 3-5 miles West of Rich Creek. There is also a T. P . Brents approximately 3-5 miles due North of Delina.
This same map also shows that a J.F. Hill owned property North of Dr. Brents and T.A. Hill ow ned property South of Dr. Brents.
He was the administrator of an Elias SCOTT in Marshall Co., TN in August 1868. I believe that Elias was probably his father-in-law (especially with his firstborn being named Thomas Elias BRENTS!)
"Thomas Wesley, our subject, was born in Marshall County, February 10, 1823. His early days were spent on a farm and in seeking an education in the old dirt-floor schoolhouse of early days, where the three "R's" were supposed to be sufficient for an education. Before attaining h is twenty-first birthday he had never seen a grammar, but notwithstanding the many disadvantages under which he labored, he conceived the idea of gaining a better education, and began a course of private study, often burning the midnight oil in furtherance of his plans. He followed pedgoging about for years and became a disciple of Esculapius and attended the Eclectic Medical College, of Memphis, Tenn., the Medical School of Nashville, and finally graduated , in 1855, from the Reform medical College of Georgia, and was chosen demonstrator of anatomy , and later became professor of anatomy and surgery and held that position until the breaking out of the war. Owing to ill health he gave up his practice and moved to the country and de voted much of his time to the ministry, having started in that calling in 1850. He had acquired a thorough knowledge of Latin and his ministerial labors called for a knowledge of the Greek language, which he immediately began mastering. In 1841 he wedded Angeline Scott, who died in 1857, leaving five small children. Late in the same year he married Mrs. Elizabeth (Taylor) Brown, who bore him four children, two of whom are professional men: T. E., a physician , and John, a lawyer. Dr. Brents moved to Burrit in 1874 to educate his children in Burrit College, where three of them graduated. In politics he is conservative, not having voted since 1856. For fifty-five years he has been a citizen of Marshall County, and whether as a physician, a professor or a minister of the gospel he has few equals and fewer superiors." (Goodspeed Biographies-Marshall Co., TN)
URL http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnmarsha/goodspeed/gdspdbiosB.html (1999)
He was a very influential member in the Cane Creek Church of Christ and also preacher there sometimes.
1860 Marshall Co., TN Census lists the following:
Thomas W. Brents age 37
Elizabeth.....................35
Thomas E....................14
Margaret J....................13
Alexander C...................8
Mary E..........................6
John J...........................4
James W.......................7 months
Note: Some of the information in these pages is uncertain. Please let me know of errors or omissions using the email link above. ...Mike Wilson
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