Thomas married Martha Merriam. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On the 5th of June, 1895, in Chattanooga, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Preston to Miss Roberta Clift, a daughter of Moses H. and Attie (Cook) Clift, both residents of this city. Her parents were both descended from pre-Revolutionary stock and Mrs. Preston is an active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She is a true southern gentlewoman, inheriting from her ancestors a charming and magnetic personality, which has won for her many friends. She is socially prominent. To the Union of Mr. and Mrs. Preston two children have been born: Arwin Clift and Thomas Ross, Jr. Politically Mr. Preston gives his allegiance to the democratic party and he has been a delegate to several national conventions, including the last two. In 1912 he was candidate for governor. Fraternally he is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine and his religious faith is that of the First Presbyterian church, in which church he has been a deacon for a number of years. During the World war he was state chairman of the War Savings Stamps drives, chairman of two Liberty Loan drives and active in the promotion of all others. He was likewise chairman of the loan committee, war finance, for the district of Tennessee, North Georgia and North Alabama. Mr. Preston is identified with all organizations that have for their purpose the development and improvement of the general welfare and he holds membership [p.13] in the leading clubs here. Although for the most part a self-educated man, Mr. Preston is a man of high scholarly attainments and he is the author of a splendid work, entitled, “The Real Andrew Johnson,” a story of the president as he was. Mr. Preston is in the prime of life and there is no telling what things he may yet accomplish in the world of finance. His career is a good example of the fine business man who began with absolutely nothing, and has gone ahead by virtue of sheer pluck and merit, until his name has become a by-word in the financial circles of his native state and throughout the south.

Thomas married Mary Roberta Clift on 5 Jun 1895 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Moses Haney Clift and Charlotte Attaline Cooke) was born in 0Jul 1870 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

M. H. Clift., attorney, of the firm of Cooke, Clift & Cooke, is a native of Hamilton County, and the son of Col. William Clift, a native of Greene County, Tenn. The father was reared in Knox County, and came to Hamilton County about 1825, residing at Soddy until his death in 1866. He was colonel of the State militia many years, and during the war was colonel in the Federal Army. From 1848 to 1855 he was commissioner of improvement for the United States Government. The mother, Nancy (Brooks) Clift, was a native of Knox County, and died in this county in 1847. Our subject was reared and educated in Hamilton County, and at the commencement of hostilities enlisted in the Fourth Tennessee Confederate Cavalry. He was paroled at Columbus, Ga., being at that time on Debrill's staff. He was admitted to the bar just prior to the war, and at its termination came to Chattanooga and began practicing his profession in the firm of Wallace & Clift, where be remained one year. After practicing alone for a few months he became a member of the firm of Clift & McRee, then Clift & Bate, then Clift, Bate & Cooke, then Clift & Cooke, and finally, January 1, 1887, the firm of Cooke, Clift & Cooke was formed. Our subject is president of the Soddy Coal Company and Walden Ridge Coal Company, also director in the Mutual Gas Company and the Home Insurance Company. In 1867 be married Miss A. C. Cooke, who bore him two children; she died in 1876. In 1883 he married Miss Florence Parrott, of Cartersville, Ga., and to this union have been born two children, both living. Mr. Clift is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the K. of P. Goodspeed's "History of East Tennessee" 1887

DEATH: Name CLIFT, M. H. (MAJ.)
Date DEC. 4 1911
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Moses married Charlotte Attaline Cooke on 13 Sep 1866 in Monroe County, Tennessee. Charlotte (daughter of Dr Robert Fielding Cooke) was born on 15 Mar 1846 in Monroe County, Tennessee; died on 23 Feb 1876 in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]