DOB:  1843 DOD:  October 29, 1905 Age at Enlistment: 18 Date of Enlistment:  May 9, 1861 Place of Enlistment:  Franklin, TN Rank at Enlistment:  Private Rank at Discharge:  Private Casualty:  None Comments:  Thomas was born and raised in Brentwood, TN at the family plantation of Pleasant View off of modern day Concord Road.  The house is still standing and part of the Governor’s Club.  His brothers Meredith and Robert also served in the Williamson Grays.  His older brother William served in the 55th Tennessee Infantry.  The 1860 Census shows Thomas was attending school.  It is uncertain if he attended Boiling Springs Academy close to his house or if was a student at Harpeth Academy in Franklin.  He enlisted at the company’s formation but was discharged on April 27, 1862 at Corinth, MS for Disability.  Following the war he married Margaret Burns in November 1868 according to Nashville Newspaper.  The couple had at least three children.  Thomas moved to Nashville in 1867 and worked as a salesman and clerk before going into business for himself.  He opened a shoe store with his brother Robert called T.E. Winstead & Co. across the street from the Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville on Cherry Street [now called 4th Avenue] in 1869.  It appears this partnership lasted until around 1888 when Robert no longer appears in the Nashville City Directory as working with his brother.  Robert switched careers and decided to become a real estate agent.  Thomas continued running his shoe store until his death.  In 1905, Thomas died from Cirrhosis of the Liver and Interstitial Nephritis due to his drinking alcohol and morphine habit, according to his death certificate. List of Addresses where Thomas lived according to Nashville City Directory: 1867 13 N College Salesman (Moves to Nashville) 1868 25 N College Clerk 1869 Shoe Store opens at 7 N. Cherry 1870 Edgefield 1874 134 N College 1876 73 S High 1878 51 S. Vine 1885 153 N Summer (Store moves to 154 Church) 1888 216 Sycamore – Robert no longer with the business 1896 426 N Summer – Solicitor 1898 422 Park Place 1905 Died at 416 Park Place

Top:  Thomas’s grave at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Right:  Ads for T.E. Winstead & Brothers from Newspapers

Pleasant Hill Plantation, Thomas’s childhood home in Brentwood, TN