Background
Thames, Travis Butler was born in Ma 1856 in in Monroe Company, Alaba. Son of Cornelius Ellis and Mary E. (McCollum) Thames.
Thames, Travis Butler was born in Ma 1856 in in Monroe Company, Alaba. Son of Cornelius Ellis and Mary E. (McCollum) Thames.
Bachelor of Science, Howard College, 1876. Graduate Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1881. (Doctor of Divinity, Richmond College, 1892).
Ordained Baptist ministry. Pastor Shelbyville, Kentucky, 1879-1884, La Salle Church, Chicago, 1884-1889, Danville, Virginia, Elizabeth, New Jersey, Newnan, Georgia First president Baptist Education Board Trustee Roanoke College, Danville, Virginia.
Author: Colonial Virginia, 1906.
Mason.
Married Sallie Long, December 1882.