Source: Rowland, Dunbar, ed. Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Atlanta: Southern Historical Publishing, 1907. Vol. III, pp. 854-55
Waldrup, T. Edward, is prominent in educational circles in Mississippi, having been most successful in his pedagogic endeavors and being at the present time incumbent of the position of principal of the high school at Laurel, Jones county, and being one of the popular citizens of this thriving city. He was born at Lake Como, Jasper county, Miss., July 30, 1866, and is a son of George M. and Mary Ann (Terral) Waldrup, the former of whom was born near the city of Macon, Ga., Sept. 12, 1835, and the latter at Heidelberg, Jasper county, Miss., Dec. 20, 1846. The ancestry on both sides has been plain and substantial, the major portion of the representatives of the two families having been identified with agricultural pursuits and having been earnest, honest and God-fearing folk, such as make for good citizenship in every respect. George M. Waldrup was a valiant and loyal soldier of the Confederacy in the war between the States, having enlisted as a private in Company C, Eleventh Mississippi infantry, in April, 1862, and having served in this command until the close of the great internecine conflict. He participated in the battles of Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga and in the line of engagements fought from Tennessee southward to Atlanta, where Gen. John B. Hood took command. From Atlanta his regiment accompanied Hood's forces back to Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., and he remained with this command until the final surrender, when he received his parole. Mr. Waldrup's first wife came to her death by burning in 1902 and he again married, his second wife being named Mary Lund and they now reside at Bay Springs, Jasper county. After due preliminary discipline T. Edward Waldrup entered Rose Hill normal college, in which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1888, since which time he has been continuously engaged in teaching, having been connected with some of the best preparatory schools in the State and having met with unqualified success in each specific field of endeavor to which he has been called. Since 1903 he has been principal of the Laurel high school, whose work he has effectively advanced in all departments. He is also sole owner of the Laurel Ledger, of which he recently assumed control, being editor and publisher of this popular paper. He has taken post-graduate work in the University of Chicago, and he is a valued member of the Jones county teachers' association. He is identified with the Franklin literary society of the Laurel high school and is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World and the Star of Bethlehem. He was the first teacher in the State to advocate a uniform text-book law and the rural central high school. In 1902 he conceived the idea of organizing the varous local truck-growers' associations of the South into one general body. In the following year, in harmony with his view, there was organized at Laurel, the Southern Truck Growers' League, whose primary object is to provide better marketing facilities for all products shipped by those identified with the association, and the plan has inured greatly to the benefit of those thus represented in the organization. He and his wife are zealous members of the Baptist church, in which he is a deacon, and his political allegiance is given to the Democratic party. On Oct. 24, 1884, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Waldrup to Miss Emma Morgan, daughter of Davis and Nancy (Brown) Morgan, of Claiborne, Jasper county. Of this union were born four children—Thomas Vivian, Opie R., Grace and Mary Lee. Thomas V. and Mary L. are deceased.