| Name: TOMME, AUGUSTUS B. (listed on 1860 Census as Augustus B. Tommy, on muster roll as Augustus B. Tommie) | |
| Rank: Private | |
| Enlisted: Conscripted 5 November 1864 | |
| Service History: | |
| Date of Birth: October 1824 | Place of Birth: Georgia |
| Date of Death: 29 December 1911 | Place of Death: Bowie, Montague County, Texas |
| Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Bowie, Montague County, Texas | |
| Father: Othaniel W. Tomme | |
| Mother: Mary (Polly) Digby | |
| Spouse(s): Lucinda Mary Ann Davis (b March 1830 in Talbot County, Georgia, d 12 February 1908 in Bowie, Montague County, Texas; married 12 October 1847/48 in Talbot County, Georgia; daughter of Cross Ragland Davis and Huldah Digby) | |
| Children: John W., William E., Mary E., Cross C., Araminta C., Anna P., Thadius T., Henry Jack, Eldora Eugenia (Nolan) | |
| Occupation: Mechanic, house carpenter | |
| Residence(s): Talbot County, Georgia; Coffee County, Alabama; Wise County (1880) and Montague County (1900), Texas | |
| Other: His brother Martin Van Buren Tomme served with the 60th Alabama Infantry Regt., he died in 1862. | |
| Photographs:
Augustus Tomme, wife Lucinda, and several of his children are buried in
unmarked graves in plot D-42 (below) in Elmwood Cemetery (right).
|
Photos courtesy of Mimi Davidson |
| Submitter: Georgia V. Fleming | E-mail: hyacinth@ala.net |
