... There were four sons, only one of whom Thomas Tileston, Esquire, survives. Of the sons, two of them, Thomas and Arthur, entered the army, and served with distinction throughout the Civil War. Thomas, at the end of the war, was a captain of infantry, and Arthur, a major in a cavalry-regiment. Thomas married, Mary, daughter of Charles Jefferson Hendee, of Boston, Massachusetts, and sister of Admiral George Hendee, of the United States Navy. ...
