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- Thomas Alfred Partlow was born in 1850 in Rutherford County, Tennessee, before his parents migrated to Laclede County, Missouri, in 1852. He was the second child of James Wesley Partlow and Sarah Jane Arnold Partlow.
The 1870 Laclede County census shows Thomas Partlow at age 20 still in his parents' household. The 1880 Laclede County census shows him age age 30 living with wife, Martha, son Charles A., age 3, and daughter Maude M., age 1. Two more daughters, Myrtle and Alpha, were born later.
Thomas died in December 1882 from an accidental gunshot wound by his own gun suffered on a hunting trip when his horse stumbled and fell with him. His body was not found for several days. A January 11, 1883 Linn Creek Reveille news article reads: "Death came to T. A. Partlow two weeks ago, 20 miles from Linn Creek on the Lebanon Road. He leaves a widow and 3 or 4 small children." His children would have ranged in age from one year to five years at the time of his death. His widow, Martha, remained single while rearing the children; she is shown as "Mattie Partlow - Widow" in the 1900 census. Mattie and the children eventually moved to Montana, where she died and was buried in 1921.
Family researchers have not found a tombstone for Thomas A. Partlow, but it is known he is buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery near Lebanon, Missouri, which was the family burial ground at the time he, his parents and other early Partlows were buried. This cemetery is now in ruins.
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1850 - 1882 (32 years)