Thomas CROSLIN, farmer, was born in West Tennessee in 1822, the son of Thomas and
Nancy (TEAL) CROSLIN.  The father, a farmer, born in Virginia in 1778, went to what is
now Coffee County, Tennessee, in his youth, a pioneer of that region, married and afterward
moved to West Tennessee.  In 1824 he moved to Morgan County, Illinois.  A year later he
returned to Coffee County, and for several years after 1828 lived in the Cherokee Nation,
Alabama.  In 1844 he came to Williamson  County, Illinois, and bought a farm on which he
died in 1865.  His wife, a native of South Carolina, died the year before.  Three of their four
children are living.  Our subject remained with his parents until 1844 he came to
“Suckerdom.”  In 1846 he married Elvira, daughter of John T and Jane CARTER, and a native
of Smith County, Tennessee.  Their children are John, Alonzo, Smith, Louella and Alice.  He
lived in Williamson County until 1858, when he bought property in Parrish, and cleared the
site of the village.  In December 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Fifty-sixth Illinois Infantry,
for three years or for the war, and fought at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Mission Ridge (Missionary
Ridge ?), Chickamauga, Kenesaw Mountain, Nashville and numerous other skirmishes, not
wounded or captured, but permanently injured by sickness.  He was discharged July 14, 1865
at Springfield, Illinois.  He lived at Parrish until 1881, when he bought his present farm of
seventy acres.  He is a Republican, first voting for Polk.  He is a member of the F M B A and
he and his wife are members of the Baptist Church.