Thomas Jefferson Blythe

Thomas Jefferson Blythe was born on 1 August 1829 in Alabama.¹ He was the son of Andrew J. Blythe and Jane (?)¹ Thomas Jefferson Blythe married Esther Elvira Baum, daughter of Moses Baum and Mary (?).¹ Thomas Jefferson Blythe married Elizabeth Melvinia Hines in November 1867.¹ Thomas Jefferson Blythe died on 6 August 1907 in Tippah County, Mississippi, at age 78.¹ He was buried at Lowry Cemetery, Tippah County, Mississippi.¹
Thomas Jefferson Blythe served as a Private in the 34th Mississippi Infantry, Confederate States of America from 1862 through 1865. He was a resident of Marshall County, Mississippi in the 1850 U.S. census and at Tippah County, Mississippi in the 1860 census.¹ He became the father of Henry Patton Foote Blythe on 18 September 1851.¹ Thomas Jefferson Blythe became a widower with the death of his wife, Esther Elvira Baum about 1865.¹ Thomas Jefferson's son Henry Patton Foote Blythe was married to Frances Ellen 'Fannie' Hines on 29 October 1874 in Ripley, Tippah County, Mississippi.¹ Thomas Jefferson's son Henry Patton Foote Blythe died on 3 July 1898 in Tippah County, Mississippi.¹ Thomas Jefferson Blythe became a widower with the death of his wife, Elizabeth Melvinia Hines in 1906.¹