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George B. Thurman

ID Number: T00901

Biographical Data
Basic Identification

Gender: male

Ethnicity: European American

Immigration: no

Attributed Race: white

Free or Enslaved: free

Birth & Family

Birth Date: 1812/05/19

Birthplace: Virginia

Mother: unknown

Father: unknown

1st Spouse: unknown

2nd Spouse: male

Age Details

Age: 48

Age Group: adult (20-59)

Life Details

Occupation(s): master saddler/harness maker

Last Church: Methodist Protestant Church

Military Service: none

Last Residence: Lynchburg, Virginia

Last Address:

Death

Death Date: 1860/01/14

Death Note: none

Place of Death: Western State Lunatic Asylum, Staunton, Virginia

Cause of Death: insanity/’brain’

Burial & Undertaking

Burial Date: 1860/01/17

Funeral Home:

Diuguid ID Number:

Indigent?: private interment

Gravesite and Grave Marker Data

Grave Marker or Marker Fragment: yes

Section: 203.S

Confirmation Source for Location: gravemarker

Grave Marker Erector(s): unknown

Confirmation Source for Interment: gravemarker

Notes

Masonic Lodge No.?

Others In Same Plot (T0450)
Full Name
Birth Date
Death Date
Delia Ann Thurman Davis Hatcher
c.1820/unknown/unknown
1903/08/16
Sallie L. Turner Thurman Lanford
c.1825/unknown/unknown
1874/03/16
Joseph S. (or L.?) Thurman
1829/12/29
1857/05/27
John William Thurman
1837/06/19
1842/06/19
Obituary and Biographical Detials

“He loved his friends, a good dinner, and a joke, the last probably the best of all…”
-1896 Reminiscences

Member of Lynchburg Hose Company (fire department), Free Masons, and Knights Templar