Jane married Thornton F Amos on April 16 1861, at age 16 in Wetzel, West Virginia, United States. Thornton was born on September 3 1838, in Monongalia, Virginia. His occupation was Farmer.
Thornton F Amos Side Union Regiment State/ Origin West Virginia Regiment 14th Regiment West Virginia Infantry Company H Rank in Private Rank out Corporal
Thornton was born in 1837 in what was then Virginia. His parents were John and Jane Amos. He married Jane Elizabeth Price. He passed away in 1922 in Arkansas. Burial was in the Union Chapel Cemetery in Garfield, Benton, Arkansas.[1]
Sources
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8D8-DYF : accessed 15 April 2016), Thornton Amos in household of John Amos, Marion county, Marion, Virginia, United States; citing family 822, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6RY-RDD : accessed 15 April 2016), Thornton Amos, Mannington, Marion, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district ED 91, sheet 483D, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 1407; FHL microfilm 1,255,407.
"United States Veterans Administration Pension Payment Cards, 1907-1933," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6W1-ZCK : accessed 15 April 2016), Thornton Amos, 1907-1933; citing NARA microfilm publication M850 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,634,071.
"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVS-WDKS : accessed 15 April 2016), Thornton F. Amos, 1922; Burial, Garfield, Benton, Arkansas, United States of America, Union Chapel Cemetery; citing record ID 7621857, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Thornton by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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