Thomas Parvin

Thomas was born in 1820 in Of, Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Thomas' father was Ephraim Parvin and his mother was Maria Carden. He had five brothers and six sisters, named Augustus, Christopher, Isaac, Lafayette, Joseph, Elizabeth, Jane, Sarah, Amanda, Margaret and Melvina.  He was the oldest of the twelve children. He had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named Henry L., Orville and Margaret.