Thomas N. MENDENHALL
- Born: 5 Mar 1835, Cleveland County, North Carolina
- Marriage (1): Charlotte Tennessee TATUM on 16 Apr 1857
- Died: 13 Dec 1863, Arkansas at age 28
 General Notes:
ANCESTRY: Descended from Warinus de la Strode (born 1020 in Bretagne, France), a French knight who lived at the time of William the Conqueror
ANCESTRY: 7th Great-Grandchild of John Mildenhall Jr. (born 1560), the only Englishmen to visit both royal courts of the Emperors Akbar and Jahangir, and the first Englishmen to be buried in India
ANCESTRY: Great-Great-Nephew of John Bartram, the "Father of American Botany"
ANCESTRY: First-Cousin (Thrice Removed) to William Bartram, "America's first Ornithologist"
ANCESTRY: Third-Cousin to Thomas Corwin Mendenhall (born 1841), Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier's namesake
OCCUPATION: Thomas was a country school teacher. He and his wife lived on 500 acres near Greenwood, AR about two miles from his father's log cabin homestead.
DEATH: He was killed by Jayhawkers (an anti-slavery militant group) while he was visiting his step-mother.
Thomas married Charlotte Tennessee TATUM on 16 Apr 1857. (Charlotte Tennessee TATUM was born on 26 Sep 1841 in Missouri.)
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