thomas waller born ca 1850 Tennessee
My great great grandfather, Thomas Overton Waller, came to Southeast Missouri as a child with his mother and stepfather, Eliza & Jesse Morgan, from Tennessee.It has always been told in the family that his natural father was killed in a cross fire in West Tennessee while serving on a sheriff's posse.I do not know his father's name but it may have been Richard and his father died (maybe?) while Tom's mother was expecting HIM so the posse incident would have been ca 1849-50.Does anyone know who he was or where I might find info about sheriff records?