Person:David Thurman (2)

A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians

Lucian Lamar Knight, Volume 6, page 3104-3106, Lewis Publishing Company, 1917

David R. Thurman was born and reared in Georgia and was a lad of sixteen years when he manifested his loyalty to the cause of the Confederate States by becoming a member of the Gate City Guards, organized in the City of Atlanta. One year later this company's organization lapsed and he then joined Captain Everett's company of artillery, with which command he took part in every engagement in which it thereafter participated until the close of the war.

After the long and sanguinary conflict had come to a close David R. Thurman returned to the parental home in Fulton County, and shortly afterward he was given a deed to a plantation of 300 acres, which he forthwith presented to his sister Eliza, the wife of Elihu Cranford. He then purchased a small farm in Alabama, where he remained three years, within which period his son Albert S., of this review, was born. At the expiration of the interval noted he returned with his family to Georgia and settled at Sharpsburg. Coweta County, where he continued to be successfully engaged in the manufacturing of wagons and buggies until 1878, when he established his home in the Village of Turin, that county, where he lived virtually retired from active business during the remainder of his life. He died in 1910, shortly prior to his seventysecond birthday anniversary, and his widow now passed the winter seasons in the home of her son, Judge Albert T., whose name initiates this article, the while she resides at other times in the home of her son Lovic Pierce Thurman, at Tifton, Berrien County, both sons according to her the deepest filial solicitude. David R. Thurman was a man of strong mentality and well fortified convictions, his life having been guided and governed by the highest principles of integrity and honor and his having been secure place in the confidence and good will of all who knew him. He was a staurch democrat was affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the United Confederate Veterans, and was an earnest member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as is also his widow. Of the four children Judge Thurman is the eldest; William Marvin, an architect and contractor, is engaged in business in the City of Atlanta; Lovic Pierce is identified with a leading manufacturing enterprise at Tifton, Berrien County; and the other child died in infancy.