Francis Marion Thornton

1829 - 1900  (50 years)

• Name	Francis Marion Thornton  [1]
  Born	4 Jan 1829  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Between 1880 and 1900  [1]
  Person ID	I285	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  [3, 4]
  	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

  
  

  Family	Sarah Catherine Easley
  Married	Bef 1862  [1]
  Children	1. Molly Thornton,   b. Abt 1863, Hickman County, Tennessee, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. W.B. Thornton,   b. Abt 1865, Tennessee, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. S.B. Thornton,   b. Abt 1867, Tennessee, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Robert Thornton,   b. Abt 1873, Tennessee, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. J.T. Thornton,   b. Between 1873 and 1880, Tennessee, USA ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2009
  Family ID	F118	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S63] Thornton - info from Dorothy Stephenson. [S20] Tennessee, Hickman - census 1850, (1850 U.S. census, Hickman County, Tennessee, population schedule), Hickman County, Tennessee, pg 139 (penned), pg 79 (printed), Dwelling 999, Family 999, Moses Thornton household, jpeg image (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.