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DR. G. A. THOMAS was born February 3, 1845, in Ballard County. He is a son of William and Catharine (Valandingham) Thomas. The father was born in Henry County, Ky.; he died in February, 1867, aged fifty-five, from being thrown from a horse. The mother was born in Owen County, Ky.; she died in July, 1867, aged forty-eight. Dr. Thomas was reared on his father’s farm, and attended the schools of the neighborhood. He enlisted in 1862, with Polk’s scouts, Confederate States Army, and remained with this company about five months, when they disbanded. In the fall of 1862 he joined the Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry and served till the end of the war. He participated in the battles of Okolona, Miss.; Union City, Tenn.; Brice’s Cross Roads, Harrisburg, Athens, Ala.; Sulphur Trestle, Ala.; Pulaski, Tenn.; Columbus, Franklin, Murfreesborough and others. On his return from the army, he attended Notre Dame College, Indiana, about ten months. He then came to Ballard County and commenced the study of medicine, under the preceptorship of Dr. W. H. Parkham, and continued about one year. He then went to Louisville, and there graduated from the medical department of the Louisville University, in the class of 1870, after which he returned to Ballard County and engaged in the practice of his profession and also in farming. He was married, in 1873, to Miss H. J. Webb, of this county. This union is blessed with five children, three sons and two daughters. Both of the doctor’s grandfathers, as well as Thomas Woolfolk, the grandfather of Mrs. Thomas, served in the war of 1812, the latter being a commissioned officer.