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Alia (Duncan) Thornton (1815 - 1888)

Alia (Aley) Thornton formerly Duncan
Born in Morgan County, Tennessee, U S Amap
Ancestors ancestors
Daughter of and
Sister of
Wife of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants descendants
Mother of
Died at age 73 in Morgan County, Tennessee, U S Amap
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Biography

Alia was born in 1815 in Tennessee. [1][2] [3]

Alia's siblings:

  1. Burten M  ?? Burton Duncan??
  2. James Scarboro (1819-1863)  ?? James Scarboro Duncan??

Alia Duncan married Edward (shown on some records as Edmond/Edmund) Thornton. The family continued to live in Morgan County, Tennessee.[4]

Alia and Edward's children:

  1. Henry Thornton (1839-
  2. Susan Thornton Hedrick (1840-1906)
  3. Elizabeth (1843-
  4. Mary A Thornton Howard (1845-1900)
  5. Joseph (1848-1916)
  6. William (1854-1903)
  7. Martha Thornton Stewart (1854-1928)
  8. John C Thornton (1862-1881)

These children are listed in FindAGrave and needs to be researched.

She passed away in 1888 and was buried in the Liberty Cemetery, Wartburg, Morgan County, Tennessee. [5]

Sources

  1. ↑ Source: #S1
  2. ↑ Source: #S8
  3. ↑ Source: #S55
  4. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCDT-C6Q : 12 April 2016), Aley Thornton in household of Edmund Thornton, Morgan county, Morgan, Tennessee, United States; citing family 147, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
  5. ↑ Source: #S55
  • Source: S1 1880 U.S. Census; Census Place: District 2, Morgan, Tennessee; Roll: 1273; Family History Film: 1255273; Page: 532A; Enumeration District: 131. Source Information: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
  • Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 May 2019), memorial page for Alia--Aley Duncan Thornton (25 May 1815–4 Jul 1888), Find A Grave Memorial no. 103935808, citing Liberty Cemetery, Wartburg, Morgan County, Tennessee, USA ; Maintained by Cliffoflancing (contributor 46816893) .




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