Thomas W. Peagler, the leading druggist of Greenville, Ala., is a son
of George S. Peagler and Absilla Peagler, and was born June 30, 1859,
in Butler county, about twelve miles west of the city of Greenville.
His father was born in South Carolina in 1808, became an extensive
planter, and died in Butler county, Ala., in 1872.  George Peagler's
wife, Absilla Thigpen, daughter of Gray Thigpen and Penelope Stallings
Thigpen, whom he married in 1840, bore him five children and died in
the year 1875.  Martin Peagler, the eldest of the family, was a soldier
in the Confederate army, contracted a disease while in the service,
and died before the close of the war.  The second son, George W.
Peagler, is a farmer and stock raiser near Highland Home, Crenshaw
County, Ala.  G. J. Peagler, the third in order of birth, is in the
milling business at Forest, Ala.  Sophronia Peagler, deceased, was the
wife of W. M. Flowers, and the youngest member of the family is the
gentleman whose name introduces this mention.

Thomas W. Peagler's educational training was acquired in the common
schools and by a short attendance at an educational institution of a
higher grade, and on reaching the years of his majority he engaged in
the pursuit of agriculture on the home farm, where be resided until
the year 1888.  At that time he formed a partnership with A. G. Stewart
in the drug business at Greenville, where the firm of Stewart &
Peagler did a successful trade until 1885, Mr. Peagler selling out to
his partner at that date.  He then purchased an interest in the drug
firm of E. M. Kirkpatrick & Co., which after his admission became known
as Kirkpatrick & Peagler, under which name the business was carried
on until March, 1889, when Mr. Peagler bought the entire stock.  He has 
since that time been prominently identified with the drug trade of 
Greenville, and now owns the largest store of the kind in the city, 
carrying a stock of over $5,000 and doing a business amounting to about 
$12,000 per year.  He still owns a part of the old home plantation and is 
the possessor of  a beautiful residence in Greenville.

He is one of the successful young business men in Butler county, and
is very popular, especially with the younger element, who hold him in
the highest esteem.  He was for some time captain of one of the local
military companies of Greenville, the Greenville Light Guards, and
afterward captain of the Greenville Rifle company, which was organized
by consolidating the two old companies, the Greenville Light Guards
and Butler Rifles, but resigned that position to accept the office of
major of the First Regiment Alabama state troops, to which he was
elected in November, 1890, to fill an unexpired term, and was again
elected unanimously in February, 1892, for a term of three years.

Mr. Peagler and Ellen Dunkin, daughter of J. L. Dunkin, were united in
the bonds of matrimony November, 1882.  They have had three children,
W. Werle Peagler and Myrtle Peagler, living, and Ila Peagler, who died
at the age of two years.  Mr. Peagler is past chancellor of the K of P.
lodge of Greenville, and belongs to the American Legion of Honor.