THORNTON
In Thoren's Family Tree
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Generation
One DAVID THORNTON. David THORNTON is as far
as I have gone
back on my Thornton Family. He is believed to
have been
born about 1783 in South Carolina. He was
listed as an
unmarried man in an 1803 land lottery in
Franklin County,
Georgia. It is believed that David married
Bathsheba WHITE
there, but no marriage record has been found
yet. David
and Bathsheba had twelve children: 1) Thomas
Jefferson b
26 Mar 1807; 2) Henry White b 28 Dec 1808; 3)
William b 18
Jun 1811; 4) Presley Wren "P.R." b 22 Jun
1813; 5) Nancy
A. b 8 Apr 1815; 6) Elizabeth Stallworth b 2
Mar 1817; 7)
George W. b 20 Apr 1919; 8) James M. b 4 Jan
1821; 9) Mary
b 11 Jan 1823; 10) Martha M. b 23 Jan 1830;
11) John M. b
23 Jan 1830; and 12) Eppa H. b 7 Jan
1833.They moved to
Fayette county, Alabama sometime around 1820
and built the
first water mill there. By 1860 he owned 350
acres of land
there, and he also owned some land in
Yalobusha County,
Mississippi. Bathsheba died Jul 1840 and
David died 29 Oct
1867. It was said he was beaten badly by
"Carpetbaggers"
who thought he had money hidden and he didn't
recover. Generation Two PRESLEY WREN THORNTON. Presley Wren
THORNTON was born
22 Jun 1813, probably in Franklin County,
Georgia. In most
records he is known as P. R. THORNTON. He was
the son of
David THORNTON and Bathsheba WHITE. On 19 Dec
1833 he
married Eleanor DUKE. Where they married is not known.
Presley and Eleanor had ten children: 1) John
Marshall b 7
May 1835; 2) William Henry b Feb 1837; 3)
Wiley D. b ca
1839; 4) Presley Wren Jr b 8 Aug 1841; 5)
David; 6)
Robert; 7) Mary Elizabeth; 8) James Presley b
16 Aug 1852;
9) Abraham M b Sep 1855; and 10) Grace b ca
1859. Presley
moved his family to Yalabusha County,
Mississippi soon
after he married and they lived there the
rest of their
lives. Presley died 14 Jul 1883 and Eleanor
died 20 Mar
1885. They are buried in the Turkey Creek
Cemetery in Pine
Valley, Mississippi. Generation Three JAMES PRESLEY THORNTON. James Presley
THORNTON was born
16 Aug 1852 in Yalabusha County, Mississippi.
He was the
son of Presley Wren THORNTON and Eleanor
DUKE. He married
Olivia Jane MILLSAPS about 1874. Date and
place are
still
unknown. James and Olivia had eight children:
1) William
Walter b ca 1875; 2) Oscar ?; 3) Daisy
Gertrude b 5 Mar
1882; 4) Presley C. b Aug 1884; 5) Myrtle b
Jul 1887; 6)
Susan b Nov 1889; 7) James Leland b June
1892; and 8) Roy
M. b Sep 1895. James and Olivia moved to Los
Angeles
County, California about 1888. Olivia died
about 1898 and
James married again about 1899 to May Newell
in Clearwater
(now Paramount) California. Amy died about
1905 and is
buried in the Artesia cemetery. After that he
married a
woman named Bertha. He must have gone back to
Mississippi
because none of his grandchildren remember
ever meeting
him until about 1933 when he came around. He
died on 17
Sep 1935 in Glendale, California. James is
buried in the
Downey Cemetery, Downey, California and there
was a "Mrs
Thornton" buried with him who had died at an
earlier date.
It is believed she was Olivia. There is no
marker on
their graves. Generation Four DAISY GERTRUDE THORNTON. Daisy Gertrude
THORNTON was
born 5 Mar 1882 in Pine Valley, Yalabusha
County,
Mississippi. She was the daughter of James
Presley
THORNTON and Olivia Jane MILLSAPS. She was
only about
eight years old when the family moved to Los
Angeles
County, California. She married Mack Coy TOLLE on 15 Mar 1899 at Clearwater
(now
Paramount) California. Daisy and Mack had six
children
surnamed TOLLE: 1) Lloyd Rollin b 15 Nov
1900; 2) Thelma
Iris b 24 May 1902; 3) Leones Lenore b 13 Jul
1903; 4)
Walter Brown "Brownie" b 7 Feb 1905; 5) Armon
Thornton b
22 Apr 1908; and 6) Thoren Marie b 1926 & d
1927. I was
named after her. Mack died 15 Dec 1946 and
Daisy died 2
Jan 1945. They are buried on signal in the
Long Beach
Memorial Cemetery, in the Tolle Plot. <<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<>><<
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