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Eugene Armistead Thurston

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Eugene Armistead Thurston

Birth
Richmond City, Virginia, USA
Death
9 Dec 1957 (aged 84)
Chesterfield County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Married to Lena Lawson Burnette Thurston. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War having served in the Richmond Light Infantry Blues. During the war he was stationed in Jacksonville, Florida where he spent his time in part by killing rattlesnakes for meat. He was a sheet metal worker of good ability to support his family. In his later years he temporarily lost his vision and was not able to work. During this time he listened to books read to him and his favorite was the Bible. He became very knowledgeable of the Bible and could recite book and verse from memory. One of his other talents was carving canes (see the included photo). After Christmas each year he asked the local boys in his neighborhood to collect Christmas trees for him and it was from those he made his canes. Several in the family have these canes and they are valued highly today as family artifacts. He also was a Master Mason of some renown, being able to recite the work of Masons in great length. He also made canes pertinent to Masonic history and presented them to his lodge where they reside today in the Westhampton AF&AM lodge. As my ggrandfather, he was stern but an interesting person. I recall, as a very young boy, asking to borrow a nickle. He responded by asking if I intended to repay the nickle, that he would give me a nickle but if I borrowed such he expected me to repay him. It was a lesson I never forgot. He died at the veteran hospital in Richmond, Virginia.
Married to Lena Lawson Burnette Thurston. He was a veteran of the Spanish American War having served in the Richmond Light Infantry Blues. During the war he was stationed in Jacksonville, Florida where he spent his time in part by killing rattlesnakes for meat. He was a sheet metal worker of good ability to support his family. In his later years he temporarily lost his vision and was not able to work. During this time he listened to books read to him and his favorite was the Bible. He became very knowledgeable of the Bible and could recite book and verse from memory. One of his other talents was carving canes (see the included photo). After Christmas each year he asked the local boys in his neighborhood to collect Christmas trees for him and it was from those he made his canes. Several in the family have these canes and they are valued highly today as family artifacts. He also was a Master Mason of some renown, being able to recite the work of Masons in great length. He also made canes pertinent to Masonic history and presented them to his lodge where they reside today in the Westhampton AF&AM lodge. As my ggrandfather, he was stern but an interesting person. I recall, as a very young boy, asking to borrow a nickle. He responded by asking if I intended to repay the nickle, that he would give me a nickle but if I borrowed such he expected me to repay him. It was a lesson I never forgot. He died at the veteran hospital in Richmond, Virginia.

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