Gail, sorry to be so long in answering your letter below. Busy. No, we have no info on Elizabeth Betsy Thorton's parents or siblings. In reading her application for a pension (William Clement Sills, War of 1812), I find that she and Clement lived in Sampson County,N. Car., before they moved to Lowndes County, Al. Perhaps Elizabeth's Thorton family was in Sampson County. That seems a good place to start researching. We know that Clement and Elizabeth had three children, probably married, before they moved to Lowndes County. They were Lee Sills who married Sara Ann Lee first and Virginia Evelyn Simpkins second; Sally Sills who married John A. Thorton, son of Asa B. Thorton and Nancy Collier Thorton, and of course, my great-grandmother Polly Sills who married first Alfred Bennett Roberson and second Isaac Ingram, son of William and Bythenia Lee Ingram. Please let me hear from you if you learn anything new. Freda. >Freda, nice to talk to you again ! Have you found out whose parents belong >to Elizabeth "Besty" Thornton b. 1795 d. 1867. Related also to >Thornton', Lee's, Raynor's, Talton's, Sasser's, Ingram's, Langley's. >Jernigan's , Spivey's (just to name a few ) ..... Thanks, Gail > Researching Southeastern families: Roberson/Robinson, Canterbury, Wright, Sills, Solomon, Ingram, Thorton, Regan, Jones, Riley, Sims, Boles, Carter