Basic Identification
Gender: male
Ethnicity: European American
Immigration:
Attributed Race: white
Free or Enslaved: free
Birth & Family
Birth Date: 1778/00/00
Birthplace: Virginia
Mother: unknown
Father: Richard Thurman, Sr. (“Uncle Thurman”)
1st Spouse: Elizabeth Simpson “Betsy” Thurman
2nd Spouse: male
Age Details
Age: 77
Age Group: adult (20-59)
Life Details
Occupation(s): saddler
Last Church: Third Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Military Service: none
Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia
Last Address:
Death
Death Date: 1855/10/10 (9?)
Death Note: none
Place of Death: home
Cause of Death: unknown
Burial & Undertaking
Burial Date: 1855/10/11
Funeral Home:
Diuguid ID Number:
Indigent?: private interment
Gravesite and Grave Marker Data
Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: yes
Section: 201.U
Confirmation Source for Location: gravemarker
Grave Marker Erector(s): unknown
Confirmation Source for Interment: gravemarker
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Obituary and Biographical Detials
See Reminiscences article
Held several municipal offices, including Mayor (1820), City Coroner, Clerk of the Market, Inspector of Butter & Lard, etc.
His name is on a bronze plaque in the wall of the old Clay Street Reservoir (BOBW).
According to Cabell’s Sketches, he established the first Sunday School in the state of Virginia (in 1817)