Martha D. Thornton

1824 - Aft 1873  (49 years)

• Name	Martha D. Thornton  [1]
  Born	16 Dec 1824  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	Aft 1873  [1]
  Person ID	I283	Full
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2009

  
  

  Father	Moses Thornton,   b. Abt 1802, South Carolina, USA ,   d. 28 Apr 1874, Tennessee, USA  (Age ~ 72 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Duncan,   b. Abt 1806,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	Between 1822 and 1824  [2, 3]
  	Marriage date estimated from birth year of first child (1824) and age of Elizabeth. Suit cited names Elizabeth Thornton, wife of Moses Thornton, as a daughter of David Duncan and brother of Hiram W. Duncan.
  Family ID	F32	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S63] Thornton - info from Dorothy Stephenson, Marriage bef 1850, as she was missing from the home in the 1850 census. Death after 1873, as she was on of the "four daughters" mentioned in her father's will. Source: Dorothy Stephenson (Reliability: 3). [S24] Thornton - "Thornton and Kin" WorldConnect file, Jeff Reece, (The online family file of Jeff Reece, published on WorldConnect.), Moses Thornton, ID # I0112 (Reliability: 3). Moses Thornton Born 28 Dec 1801 Died 28 April 1874, Hickman County, TN Buried Thornton Cemetery, Hickman Co TN Father: Josiah Francis Marion (?) Thornton, b abt 1779, Spartanburg, SC Mother: Esther Ferguson, b abt 24 Sept 1784, Fairfield District (?), SC Spouse: Elizabeth Duncan, b 29 Nov 1804, SC Married on 22 Jan 1824 Hickman Co TN [S3713] Mary Ann (Duncan) Dobson, "Tennessee: Hickman County,"Duncan Genealogy Research Files (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dobson/ : accessed 12 August 2013), for 1874 Bill of Complaint by T.H. P. Duncan [Thomas Hiram P. Duncan] against Moses Thornton and wife Betsy [Elizabeth (Duncan) Thornton]; citing Hickman County Chancery Court Record, Book D: 169-172.