(1843-1893)
« return to database listInformation recorded at findagrave.com reports that at age 18 Thomas volunteered for the Confederate army on 18 May 1862. He was a private in Company H, 24th North Carolina Infantry, DSA. Additionally:
• He was wounded in action during a skirmish with Union troops at Boon’s Mill, near Jackson, NC, on July 28, 1863 (shot through the jaw).
• His brother, 3rd Lt. Alexander Jones Bumpass, served in the same unit and was killed in action at Petersburg, VA, in 1865, during the closing days of the war.
• Two other brothers, Capt. John K. Bumpass and Orderly Sgt. Robert D. Bumpass, Jr., served with Co F, 5th Texas Partisan Rangers, CSA, Robert drowned while attempting a crossing of the Red River during the war.
Thomas was the son of Robert D. Bumpass and Nancy Marietta Davie Bumpass, who were married circa 1826.
SOURCES:
U.S. Census records
findagrave.com
Family genealogical records generously shared by Sue Howard Wilkerson, great granddaughter of Burwell student Virginia Elmira Lunsford Bumpass and great, great niece of Burwell student Elizabeth Frances “Fannie” Lunsford Glenn).
Thomas Halliburton Bumpass was born on February 10, 1843, in Person County, NC. He died on March 9, 1893, and was buried in Abston Cemetery, Lavon, Collin County.
(1848-1881), married on January 22, 1873. Virginia and Thomas were married in Collin County, TX.