Background
Son of Charles "Don Carlos" Percy, (1704–1794), an adventurer from Ireland with pretensions to blood lines of the Dukes of Northumberland, Thomas George Percy was born in Alabama in the late 1780s and graduated from Princeton in 1806.
Son of Charles "Don Carlos" Percy, (1704–1794), an adventurer from Ireland with pretensions to blood lines of the Dukes of Northumberland, Thomas George Percy was born in Alabama in the late 1780s and graduated from Princeton in 1806.
Through their wealthy planter father, LeRoy Pope, the sisters were related to the English poet Alexander Pope. Percy stayed in Huntsville, enjoying his large library and extended family. The youngest was named William Alexander.
The Percys" youngest son William Alexander Percy married Nana Armstrong, a daughter of William Armstrong, a wealthy United States Indian agent.
Nana was the first cousin of George Armstrong Custer. Both cousins were grandchildren of General James “Trooper” Armstrong, a hero of the War of 1812.
William Alexander Percy became a colonel in the Confederate Army. After the war, Colonel Percy, a successful railroad developer, was elected to the state legislature.
He headed the committee of the Mississippi House of Representatives that impeached Adelbert Ames, considered the last carpetbagger governor of Mississippi.
Sarah Dorsey
Kate Ferguson
Eleanor Percy Lee
LeRoy Percy
Walker Percy
William Alexander Percy
William Armstrong Percy, III
Catherine Anne Warfield.
