This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: THORNTON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VlB.2ACE/73.617 Message Board Post: Two waves of the Thorntons came to Trinity in the 19th Century. Apparently, an earlier branch or wave came from Alabama in the 1860s, and another wave came in the 1870s. I don't know the exact year of when my branch came, but it was one of the Mississippi Thornton families. I don't know the name of my progenitor, but he was born in Mississippi and married to a Missouri (b. around 1842, also from Mississippi). Their son's name was William Auston "W. A." Thornton (Austin W.; Wm Austin.; Wm Austin.; Wm A.), whose eldest son was Otis Otto Thornton (Otto O.; Otto). I don't think my branch is descended from James Madison Thornton, though.