15 CDVs Civil War Confederate Judge Thomas Saunders Gholson + Family

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15 CDVs Civil War Confederate Judge/Politician Thomas Saunders Gholson + Family. Most have Liverpool backmarks when they live in England after the Civil War for awhile.List of photos 1. 2 CDVs of Judge Thomas Saunders Gholson (1810-1868) -- HON. THOMAS SAUNDERS GHOLSON, born at Gholsonville, 9th December, 1808, died, Savannah, Ga., returning from England, 12th December, 1868; educated at Oxford, N. C., and University of Virginia. Removed to Petersburg 1840. Visitor of William and Mary College 1844; President of bank of Petersburg; founder of the Library, Petersburg; formed a partnership after this brother's death, 1848, with Judge James Alfred Jones, of Mecklenburg county, and of Richmond, Va.; Judge of Circuit Court 1858; Member of Confederate State Congress with Thomas S. Bocock. Formed a cotton and tobacco commission house in Liverpool, Eng., after the war, with his son-in-law, Col. Norman G Walker; died suddenly of heart failure, and is buried at old Blandford church. Married, 14th May, 1829, Carry Ann, (born 1808; died Staten Island, N. Y., 10th December, 1896,) daughter of his uncle, Hon. Thomas Gholson.2. Anna (Cary Ann) Gholson--Wife of Thomas S. Gholson (1810-1896)3. Reverend John Y. Gholson (1830-1886)-- Rev. John Yates Gholson, born Petersburg, 1828; died on his plantation in Marengo county, Ala., 7th August, 1886; minister read more