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Copied from:
Title: Thornton family
Authors: Thornton, Jonathan Mills,
City of Publication: Montgomery, Ala.?
Publisher: unknown
Date: 1958
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Elbert Co., GA Deed Book T, page 121, "Elbert Co.: Sandford Thornton, appoint my brother, Jonathan Thornton, both of said county, my attorney
in fact to settle my business either in this state or South Carolina, 29 Dec 1822. (signed) Sandford Thornton. Witness: Wm. Woods, J.I.C. No recording date."
[Above abstract from book "Elbert Co., GA Deed Books S-W, 1820-1835" by Michal Martin Farmer, pub. 1998.]
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Ancestry.com. AL land records show Sanford purchasing land in Al on June 29, 1840 & October 21, 1841. [Tallapoosa District Land Office, Indian Allotment
General/Creek Treaty T. 20N R 26E, S. 28.]
Sanford is listed in 1850 Macon Co, AL census.
On March 6, 1853, was buried with appropriate
honors by his lodge.
On June 5, 1851, he joined the Auburn Masonic Lodge No. 75.
On March 6, 1853, was buried with appropriate honors by
his lodge. Notice of his death, and a copy of his lodge's "Tribute of Respect and Resolutions" appeared on March 25, 1853, in the Southwestern
Baptist, published then in Montgomery, Alabama."
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Elbert Co., GA Deed Book information.
which ties in with the following:
'A Glimpse of Thorntons Through the Centuries' by Walter W. Thornton,
mentions that:
"JONATHAN THORNTON, b. 1793 in Elbert Co., GA, married Martha B. McMaster,
b. 1803, a daughter of William McMaster, in the Abbeville District, S. C.
[near the Savannah River, about 20 miles south of Abbeville, S. C.]
SANFORD THORNTON, b. 1798 in Elbert Co., GA, married Martha's sister,
Susannah Townes McMaster, b. 1804."
"Columbia, S. C. Will Book 1815-1839, Vol. 2, p. 128, has receipts of
Jonathan Thornton for himself and wife, Martha, and acting as Attorney in
Fact, by authority of a duly registered Power of Attorney, for his brother
Sanford Thornton and wife Susannah T. Thornton nee McMaster for the sum of
$2087.60 each, equal shares in the estate of William McMaster [who died in
1824], under his will, witnessed by H. G. Walker and J. W. Prather."
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From: "Chandler Eavenson" yonahdells@alltel.net
Elbert Co., GA Deed Book T, page 121, "Elbert Co.: Sandford Thornton,
appoint my brother, Jonathan Thornton, both of said county, my attorney
in fact to settle my business either in this state or South Carolina,
29 Dec 1822. (signed) Sandford Thornton. Witness: Wm. Woods, J.I.C.
No recording date."
[Above abstract from book "Elbert Co., GA Deed Books S-W, 1820-1835"
by Michal Martin Farmer, pub. 1998.]
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Marriage & Death Notices from the 'South Western Baptist' Newspaper.
3-25-1853 page 29
Tribute of respect from Auburn Lodge #76 on the death of Sandford Thornton
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