Susie, Here is the bio on Thornton and Nancy Jones, hope that I have not given this to you previously. But it is surely worth repeating. Thornton and Nancy Jones were living in Hardeman County at the time of its creation in 1823. On 7 June 1826, he took out an occupant claim for 50 acres in the county and later acquired more land. Thornton was born 24 March 1783, in South Carolina. Nancy was born 2 March 1788 in Georgia. By 1814 Thornton and Nancy were living in Robertson county, TN when Thornton enlisted as a soldier in the War of 1812, on 13 Nov 1814, at Nashville. He was a second lieutenant in Captain Richard Crunk's Company of Infantry, Second Regiment West Tennessee Militia, under the command of Colonel John Cooke. He was honorably discharged on 13 May 1815 at Nashville. Thornton and Nancy were the parents of nine children: John T. 1808; James M. 1810 in Georgia, married Rebecca A. Casey in 1835, and died in 1854; Caroline 1813 in Tennessee, married Mumford Stokes Marsh in 1829, and died in 1879; Harriet Wilson 1815, married William Brooks Ruffin in 1833; Olivia married Joseph Short in 1834; W. T. March 9, 1820-1856; Lemuel Hiram 1824, married Elizabeth Young in 1846, and died in the 1870's; Rose Anna 1828, married Robert S. Carter in 1844; and Nancy 13 June 1830, married James Winchester Deming in 1845, and died in 1858. Thornton Jones died in Hardeman County on 8 June 1858; Nancy on 2 July 1858. They are buried in the Jones-Marsh Cemetery near Toone. they lived in the old Civil District 14. written by Donald G. Brown Hope that this helps you out a bit Mindy Thompson [email protected]