Ansearchin News, Summer 1972-77
                      Contributed by Genevieve Campbell

THORNTON JONES, Hardeman County, Tennessee

THORNTON JONES was born on March 24, 1783, in South Carolina, according to his
tombstone. However, the 1850 census states that he was born in Virginia.
Perhaps all of this Can be interpreted to mean that he was possibly born in
Virginia and then moved to South Carolina When he was a child. The names of
his parents are unknown. He was married to a woman named NANCY, born March 2,
1788, and by 1814 they were living in Robertson County, Tennessee, where he is
found in the 1820 census records. Soon after 1820 he moved with his family to
Hardeman County, Tennessee, as he is found on the first tax list for the
county 1824, one year after the county was created.

He was a second lieutenant in the War of 1812, in Captain CRUNK's Company,
Colonel JOHN COCKE's Second Regiment, West Virginia Militia. He entered
service in late November, 1814, at Nashville, Tennessee, and was honorably
discharged on May 15, 1815, Nashville, at the close of the war.

THORNTON and NANCY were the parents of at least nine children:

JAMES M., born about 1810; JOHN T., date of birth unknown; CAROLINE, born
about 1813, who was married to MUMFORD STOKES MARSH; HARRIET WILSON, born
about 1815, who was married to WILLIAM BROOKS RUFFIN; OLIVIA, date of birth,
unknown, who was married to Joseph Short; W. T., a son whose name was possibly
WILLIAM THORNTON, born Marth 9, 1820, who was married to a woman named MARTHA;
LEMUEL H., born about 1824, who was married to ELIZABETH YOUNG; ROSE ANNA,
born about 1828, who was married to ROBERT S. CARTER; and NANCY, born about
1830, who was married to JAMES WINCHESTER DEMING.

THORNTON JONES died in Hardeman County, Tennessee, on June 8, 1858, and he is
buried in a family cemetery, the Jones-Marsh Cemetery, near Toone. He left an
estate of land and slaves. In Hardeman County he lived in the old Civil
District #14, about seven miles north of Bolivar and the Hatchie River and
several miles south of Toone.




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