BIBLE RECORDS OF DR. SAMUEL YARDLEY THORNTON, SR. AND FRANCES "CITTIE" CLARKE Source: Holy bible - Cincinnatti: E. Morgan and Co., 1839 Bible in possession of Padgett W. Thornton, Wichita, Kansas 1977 Marriage data for the children of Dr. Sam and Frances is not complete in the bible. Marriages not included in the bible are listed at the end of this record. Only a few of their grandchildren are included in the bible record. MARRIAGES: Samu'l Y. Thornton and Frances C. Clarke were married Nov 1, 1832 * (Married in Bethel, Clermont Co., OH -- Book 1, page 428) John H. Diercks and Sarah Ellen Thornton - Nov 2, 1858. (Osage Co., MO) Amos B. Thornton and M. Ophelia Dow - Dec 22, 1862 (Osage or Cooper Co., MO) S. Y. Thornton and Elizabeth McKenzie were married Apr 22nd 1869. (Cole Co., MO) (This was a second marriage for Dr. sam. Mrs. McKenzie was a widow) Clem W. Thornton and Frances Lee Padgett - Nov 14, 1910 (Morgan Co., MO) (This was a grandson of Dr. sam and Frances, being third child of will c.) BIRTHS; Sam'l Y. Thornton born Aug 2, 1807 (Montgomery Co., MD) Frances C. Clarke born Oct 2, 1809 (Bethel, Clermont Co., OH) Amos B. Thornton born Oct 2, 1833 (Batavia, clermont Co., OH) Adelia H. Thornton born Dec 15, 1835 (same) William C. Thornton born Apr 21, 1838 (same) Sarah Ellen Thornton born aug 31, 1840 (same) Clara Thornton born July 3, 1843 (same) Ann Eliza Thornton born March 24th 1846 (same) Hannah Belle Thornton born Dec 20th 1848 (Bethel, Clermont Co., OH) Samuel Y. Thornton Jr. born Dec 23rd 1851 (same) The following list, in the writing of Dr. Sam, was evidently copied from another bible at one time. It includes his parents, brothers and a sister. Relationship of the last name is currently unknown) William H. Thornton 3 MO 7, 1778 ** (Newtown, Bucks Co., PA) I think this means the 3rd month, 7th day Hannah Thornton 7 Mo. 7, 1784 *** Amos B. Thornton - 5 Mo. 5, 1804 (Montgomery Co., MD) sam'l Y. thornton - 8 Mo. 2, 1807 (same - this is Dr. Sam, owner of the bible) Elizabeth B. Thornton - 11 Mo. 13, 1809 (Montgomery Co., MD) William Thornton - 2 Mo. 2, 1812 (same) Edward Thornton - 3 Mo. 13, 1814 (same) Wlizabeth Duncan - June 3, 1823. The following two names were written by Lellie. they are the first child and fourth child of Will C. Thornton. The third name was written by Clem thornton. Padgett is only child of Clem.) Lellie Opel Thornton - July 29th 1869 at Castle Rock, Osage Co., MO Marcus Clarke Thornton born May 2nd 1887, Jefferson City, MO Padgett W. Thornton - Dec 4, 1911 (Jefferson City, MO) DEATHS: Wm. H. Thornton - May 2, 1863 in his 86th year (Bethel, Clermont Co., OH) Frances Cittie Thornton died May 10th 1868, (Castle Rock, Osage Co., MO) Amos B. Thornton - 6 Mo. 25, 1829. (Bro of Dr. Sam; buried Bethel, Oh) Edward Thornton - 8 Mo 8, 1848. (Bro of Dr. Sam; buried Bethel, Oh) Sarah Ellen Diercks died Nov 22, 1866 at the age of 26 yrs 2 mos 23 days Sam. Y. Thornton died Apr 12, 1877 (Buried Osage Co; Stone in Jeff. City, MO) Amos B. Thornton - Nov 19, 1881 (died and buried Boonville, Cooper Co., MO) Marcus Clarke Thornton died Sept 7, 1907 at the age of 20 (Jefferson City, MO) Clara Thornton (Worth) - Dec 28, 1910 Will C. Thornton died Mar 18, 1914, Jefferson City, MO Hannah Belle Thornton - Apr 12, 1915, Kansas City BIRTHS: John H. diercks born in Wedel, Holstein, Germany, July 2nd, 1831 & married to Sarah Ellen Thornton near Castle Rock, Osage Co., MO on 2nd of Nov 1858 Kate Marie Diercks born Aug 7th 1859 (Osage Co., MO; dau of John & Sarah) Fanny Louisa Diercks born Nov 25th, 1861 (same) Laura Belle Diercks born Apr 8, 1864 (same) Samuel C. Diercks born Nov. 22, 1866 (same) (Sarah Ellen Thornton Diercks died in this childbirth, and her son died a few days later. Her husband later married her eldest sister, Adelia. They had two daughters, Jessie and Florence.) Children of A. B. & M. O. Thornton: Mary Izetta Thornton born Nov 11, 1863 (Osage or Cooper Co., MO) Clara Cittie Thornton Clothilda Lizzie Thornton "Bess" twins born July 3, 1865 (Osage Co., MO) (All records of grandchildren on this page are in the writing of Frances and no births of grandchildren are recorded here after her death in 1868.) All of the children of Dr. Sam and Frances married and had children except for "Aunt Belle", who taught school in Kansas City. The marriages of the other children were: Adelia H. Thornton (1835-1917) abt 1868 John H. Diercks, widower of Sarah Ellen William Clarke Thornton (1838-1914) married 6 Oct 1868 (Cole Co., MO) Mary Elizabeth McCann Clara Thornton (1843-1910) married John Worth Ann Eliza "Lida" Thornton (1846-1924) married Samuel McMillen Samuel Yardley Thornton, Jr., (1851-1921) Married 1882 (Cooper Co., MO) Frances N. Collins. * For background on the family of Frances "Cittie" (Clarke) Thornton's mother, Nancy (Riley) Clarke-Salt, see the following sources: "The Washington-Wright Connection", Tyler's Quarterly, Vol. IV, NO 3 (1923). "The Wright Family", Frosts and Related families of Bedford County, Tennessee by Wright W. Frost. Major Francis Wright and ann Washington by Anne Reed Ritchie. The Washington Ancestry . . ., 3 vols., by Hoppin. ** For background on the family of William H. Thornton, see the following articles in the American genealogist: "The family of Joseph Thornton, of Newport Pagnell, Co. Buckingham, England, and of Newtown, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania:, Vol 15 No. 3 (Jan 1939). William is listed as child #6 of James Thornton, p. 152. "The Family of Alice Albright, wife of Zachariah Thornton of Newport Pagnell", Vol. 15 no. 4 (April 1939), p 231 ff. "John Gale of Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and his family", Vol. 28, No. 2 (April 1952), p. 81 ff. *** Family papers indicate that Dr. Sam's mother, Hannah (Mathews) Thornton (1784-1876), was from a ". . . family of 12 or 13 girls and only one boy." The 1790 census for Bucks co., PA. p 45, includes Benjamin Matthews with one white male over 16, two white males under 16 and ten white females. by the time of Hannah's marriage to William (23 jan 1803), one brother may have died and additional sisters may have been born. One sister, Letitia, married (1804) to William Thornton's brother, John. The two couples were members of Indian Spring Monthly Meeting in Montgomery Co., MD until abt 1829, when both families moved to Clermont co., Ohio. Bible record and additional information contributed by Mrs. George Morse, Jefferson City, MO, a G-GD of William Clarke Thornton and Mary Elizabeth McCann.