Thomas Affleck

Thomas Affleck (July 13, 1812 – December 30, 1868) was a Scottish-American nurseryman, almanac editor, and agrarian writer and Southern plantation owner. He published the Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar from 1851 to 1861. alt=The front façade of Affleck's "Ingleside," from 1936. The house was built on two acres in the town of Washington, Adams County, Mississippi, by Affleck's wife, Anna M. Dunbar Smith, from 1839 to 1840. The Greek Revival-style house is built in the traditional Mississippi Cottage form. Affleck founded his famous Southern Nurseries at "Ingleside" and published his famous agricultural journals, newspaper articles, and plantation account books from the house. After the Affleck family left the area for Texas in 1860, the house was sold and had various owners until after the Civil War. In 1885, Allen Duckett Rawlings purchased the property as an investment. He died in 1887. The house and small acreage remained in the Rawlings family until 2018. The image is from the Historic American Buildings Survey, by James Butters, Photographer, April 15, 1936, entitled "FRONT MAIN ENTRANCE (SOUTH ELEVATION) - Rawlings House, Washington, Adams County, MS." He and his wife, Anna M. Dunbar Smith, owned Ingleside, an estate in Washington, Mississippi, where he founded his Southern Nurseries, one of the South's earliest nurseries. His wife also owned several plantations and enslaved people in Adams and Wilkinson Counties. In the mid-1850s, Affleck purchased Glenblythe Plantation in Gay Hill, Washington County, Texas, where he, his family, and enslaved people moved in 1860. Affleck also published Affleck's Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar from Ingleside, 1851 to 1859, and Glenblythe, 1860 to 1861. At Glenblythe, he established Central Nurseries.

Early life Thomas Affleck was born on July 13, 1812, in Dumfries, Scotland. His father was Thomas Affleck and his mother, Mary (Hannay) Affleck. His "Report on Agricultural Grasses," appeared as a Senate executive document in 1879. During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, he invited Thomas Neville Waul (1813–1903), a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, to organize the Waul's Legion at Glenblythe plantation, who used it as a military camp.

Affleck supported recruiting more English and Scottish immigrants to come to Texas.

Death Affleck died on December 30, 1868, on the Glenblythe Plantation in Gay Hill, Washington County, Texas.