John f thornton was my gg grandaddy I don't know much about him he's on the internet for application pensions i forgot how i found it i heard they came from england but not sure i don't know anything about brothers or sisters or his parents. humphreys county waverly tn is 65 miles west of nashville tn it's a small community it's going toward memphis on I 40 it's Lorettas lynn hometown where she lives right now. he married chressie or caressie or cressie either lofton or laxton. he had a son hiram r thornton he married ollie gibson and they had john william thornton she died and i believe they were in benton county and she is buried in humphreys county his daughter said that he told her that he could remember taking her by conoe and going across the tennessee river into humphries county to bury her. hiram later married minnie buchanan curtis and they had lionel,leland,dorothy who married hebert scheetz they moved to missouri hiram did lionel and possibly leland were born in w! averly and then they moved to missouri lionel died lived in cape girado missouri thats where ssindex had last known residence. John f had another son Paul Agustus Thornton that's my great grandaddy he married rebecca jane bone and they had paul jr, mary, bessie. rebecca was the daughter of george samuel bone and mary daniel bone they lived out at the bakerville community in humphreys county and john f had another daughter mary who married a branch I was told that my great grandaddy lived in perry county tn and they farmed on the banks of densen's landing now known a densen's island and he lived in pine view community in perry county and paul agustus moved to humphreys county in 1905 i think do you have any information thankyou diana thornton barnes ----- Original Message ----- From: Michelle Moreland Orlando Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 7:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TNROOTS-L] Thornton Tn Confederate Could you tell me some information on John, if his family was from Surry Co., NC or Strawberry Plains, Jefferson Co., TN? I am related to these THORNTON families and don't know info on THORNTON family line of mine after 1830's.May I ask where is Humphreys' Co., TN is? Have you looked at the Pension Records in Knoxville,TN? How about the National Archives? If you need more info on trying to find his records, e-mail me again and I will try to help you. Have been researching my family lines for over 25 yrs. and glad to help if I can. Michelle diana barnes wrote: > My gg grandaddy served in the civil war and was captured.He was John F Thornton, out of Humphreys County Tn. He was captured in Nashville Tn. Do you have any information on him about where he was in prison at, during the war he got a pensionS14106 8th(Dibrell's) cav. > > ==== TNROOTS Mailing List ==== ==== TNROOTS Mailing List ==== For researching all Rootsweb List Archives, please go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/___________________________________________________________ Get more from your time online. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com