661 JUDGE THOMAS SILL STERLING ...b. in Sterling City, Lyme, Conn., Apr 5, 1798; m. Aug. 25, 1824, Mary P. Falconer of Winchester, Wayne Co., Miss.
Thomas S. Sterling was a graduate of Yale in the class of 1820; removed shortly thereafter to Winchester, Miss., where he practised law. After his marriage he settled at Quitman, Clarke Co., Miss.; in 1825 he was elected to the Mississippi Legislature, serving two terms, and in 1833 he was elected circuit judge of Pearl River circuit, an office he continued to hold until his death. He d. of typhoid fever Jan. 26, 1839. His widow then removed to Wilcox Co., Ala.
Children:
1651 William Sterling, m. Amanda Burton.
1652 Thomas Falconer Sterling, m. Sarah T. Cooper.
1653 Mary Jerusha Sterling, d. aged 10 years.