Thomas Wooldridge
(From the Vertical Files of Montgomery County Library)

Reported as living in the Washington District in 1848 and assisting at a meeting at Waugh Camp ground in Oct. 1848 held by Rev. J. E. Ferguson the father of Gov. Jim Ferguson and that he was admitted on trial at the annual conference at Bastrop on Dec. 22, 1852.

In 1853 he was Secty. of Chappell Hill College at Chappell Hill, Texas. He gave the following information in announcing the rules of the next session. “Students from a distance are requested to bring with them whatever school books they have these will be used as far as practicable.

The two Departments of the college (male & female) are kept distinct and apart, with no intercommunication, save through the officers of the Institution.”

In 1866, Thos. Wooldridge was appointed to Montgomery. The yellow fever epidemic hit Montgomery the early part of June 1867. He died while caring for his flock, calling the sick, helping to bury the dead at night. He became a victim of the yellow fever on June 27, 1867 and is probably buried on the west side of the cemetery where those yellow fever victims who did not have family plots were buried.

December 8, 1957

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Old Methodist Church Cemetery
in Montgomery Texas
honoring
Thomas Wooldridge & Daniel Dealy
by Jean Smoorenburg

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