Hi there fellow researchers, I'm wondering if I can provide a link to your Warren family! Elizabeth Catherine Warren married Henry Thornton. Did Elizabeth give birth to a Virginia? My great grandmother was Virginia Thornton who may have been born in the late 1860's. She was the first of several wives of Jim Smith, and she gave birth to my grandmother, Ethel Lee Smith in Grenada, Mississippi on September 7, 1897 before Virginia died in 1898. Does this provide a match with your African American ancestors? I'd appreciate any info you can offer! Sincerely, B. L. Hudson