Thomas Jefferson Towles

Thomas Jefferson Towles (1843–1909) was a Confederate army officer and a state legislator for Texas.

Early life Thomas J. Towles was born in Jones county, Georgia, on December 29, 1843. When fourteen years of age he came to Texas, locating in Van Zandt county where he was reared and educated. This probably explains the panic with which the Federals were seized when General Ross soon after bore down upon them in the headlong charge which routed and dispersed them. He was long the brave, vigilant, and efficient commander of the brigade scouts, and as such was the eyes and ears of the command.

Personal Towles was a Mason. He was married in Butts county, Georgia, on February 14, 1864, to Miss N. A. Nolen. They had seven children, four sons and three daughters, of whom only the two youngest, Eva and Alice, were living in 1907.