This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lg.2ADE/473.478.1 Message Board Post: Do you have any information in your data base on an Abraham or Abiah Thornton born around 1806 in S. C. I have Abraham Thornton marrying Minerva Jane Thornton January 12, 1839. On the 1850 census he listed as Abiah, I am nor sure whether Abraham and Abiah or the same person or two different people. After the 1850 census I find no further record of him or his sons Oliver P. born around 1840 and his sone Joseph J. born around 1842. His daughter is listed as Harriet on that census but she is known as Ida Isabella Thornton. In 1866 she marries Thomas Heady in Ill. The last record I have of her is on the 1880 census Polk co., Mo. James A. lived for a time in Maries co., Mo. near Vichy, Mo....We were always told that the Thorntons were from Thornton Abbey in England. Have you ever heard that story before?...Hope you can enlighten me on this family. My mother and father had been working on their ancestors for years but when it came time to merge them into One World Tree I realized! how little they had collected on these two families. Thanks Jim Heady