Tazewell County, Virginia
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Biography Folder
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Squire Thomas Peery

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Source --  History Of Tazewell County And Southwest Virginia, 1748 - 1920, by Wm. C. Pendleton.  W.C. Hill Printing Company, Richmond, Virginia.  1920. pp. 466
 

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  Squire Thomas Peery was one of the first generation born in Tazewell County.  He was born Feb. 25th., 1794 and died July 2nd., 1860.  The beautiful boy standing by him is his son, Thomas Ritchie Peery, who was killed in battle at Winchester, Va. in September, 1864, at the age of twenty years.