Luther B. Thweatt

Luther Benet Thweatt, son of Daniel and Eliza Davis Thweatt, was born April 15, 1844.  He served with the Alabama infantry in the Civil War, and he came to Texas shortly after the war ended.  He was probably with the Flowers/McGinnis/Williamson/Brinker wagon train; his sister Mary was married to John G. Flowers.   After the death of Mary and John, he raised part of the Flowers children.  He married Nancy Perry in 1869, and they had a daughter, Annie E. Thweatt Williams.  After Nancy’s death, he married Bettie Richie in 1875.  After her death, he married Cassie Summers, daughter of Eldridge Simpkins and Mary Ann Waite Summers.  After Cassie’s death, he married her sister, Jane Summers McVay, in 1899.  Called “Uncle Dock” in the community, he operated a general store at the crossroads in Brinker, later owned by John Deuberry.  At some point, the family changed the spelling of the name to Threatt.