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Author: ander217
Surnames: KELLY, KELLEY, WILLIAMS, GORE
Classification: queries
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I still don't have a firm date of death for Thornton. The only facts I've found on
him come from his second marriage record in 1860 Raleigh Co. (West) Virginia to Mary Ann
Williams, on which he stated he was born in 1796 in Culpeper Co. VA. I have tracked him on
the 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1860 censuses. I have been unable to find him on the 1850 or 1870
censuses.
We went to the LDS library in Salt Lake City earlier this year and my husband Rick checked
on the tax and land records for Fayette and Kanawha Counties. Thornton paid taxes in
Fayette Co. through the late 1840's. He purchased a farm in Kanawha County, and began
paying taxes there in the early 1850's if memory serves me correctly. That would make
it appear that he moved around 1849 or 1850. It is possible he left Fayette Co. before the
census was taken of his area, and arrived in Kanawha after it had been taken, and so he
was missed on the 1850 census. The fact that he isn't found on the 1870 census leads
me to believe he died in the 1860's. His last known address was Fayette Co.
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