Thomas Alhanan Ferrill was born in 1847, to John Wesley Ferrill and Emaline Hough Ferrill in Escatawpa, Jackson County, Mississippi.

He is said to have been working as a plantation overseer elsewhere in Mississippi when fighting by unionists and rebels began. In 1862, at age fifteen years, he enlisted in the Confederate Army, following his father, John Wesley and older brother, Wesley Francis, each of whom had enlisted a year before, in 1861.

Upon being released from the army at the end of hostilities of the Civil War, Thomas returned to the home of his father. In 1867 he met and married Lydia Bond, daughter of Russell and Lydia Nelson Bond. One son, John, was born to this family. Lydia and son John died ‘of fever’ along with several other members of the Bond family. Their remains repose in Colonel John Bond Cemetery in Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi.

At some time prior to the 1870 census it is presumed that Thomas migrated to Texas. In Texas, he met and married Emma Hall, born 1854. Children: Martha Jerusha Ferrill, Emma Flecia Ferrill, Howell A. Ferrill, Alson Allaway Ferrill, Katie E. Ferrill, Harman William Ferrill and Thomas Edward Ferrill.

Service records for Thomas Alhanan Ferrill were obtained from the Mississippi History and Archives Department and placed in the vertical family files of the Genealogical Department of the Jackson/George County Library.

By census lists is assumed that the family lived in Counties Llano, Bexar and Waller. Considerable aid was given by genealogist researchers Cindy Shaffer of Houston Texas and Harry McDonald of Jackson County, Mississippi, in locating much of the information contained here.

Thomas Alhanan Ferrill died in Waller County Texas, in 1923, seven years prior to the death of his brother Wesley Francis Ferrill, in Harrison County, Mississippi. We have not been able to determine in which cemetery Thomas’s remains were interred. It is obviously not known whether a Confederate Soldier’s monument would have been placed at his grave-site, although that could be provided, upon submission of the appropriate form, by the U.S. Veterans Administration.