Thomas H. Saxon

SAXON, THOMAS HENRY (1839 ~ 1919). Confederate veteran Thomas Saxon was a native of Early County, Georgia and born in 1839.

Saxon enlisted in Company E of the 51st Georgia Infantry in 1862 which was part of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. He was wounded in his right leg at the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. He was captured and taken to David's Island, New York. Several months later he was exchanged at City Point, near Richmond, Virginia.

Furloughed and retired, he spent four years on crutches from his leg wound after his imprisonment. In appearance Saxon was neat and trim; in manner, courteous; his was light brown and eyes hazel; he stood erect at about 5'7".

Saxon married Penelope Ann Davis in 1867. Saxon and his wife migrated to Texas in 1874 to homestead in McLennan County near Moody, Texas. Saxon became a successful farmer, a member of the Missionary Baptist Church and a member of the I.O.O.F., Moody Lodge, No. 287. When his only child was born in 1879 he named her Addie Lee Saxon after General Robert E. Lee.

Saxon spent his last years in the Confederate Men's Home in Austin, Texas. While there, he selected his burial site at the Texas State Cemetery on a slight rise under a shade tree in the Confederate Section. His headstone bears the inscription "In God we Trust."

Information and biography provided by Louise Saxon England.