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1-- Hezekiah THORN- (1760-1845) ,York,SC
2-- James THORN- ( - )
2-- William THORN- (1793- ) ,York,SC
2-- Ephraim THORN- ( - )
2-- Thomas THORN- ( - )
2-- Sara THORN- ( - )
2-- Susannah THORN- ( - )
2-- Jesse THORN- (1808-1873) ,York,SC (NOTE)
sp-Frances MILLER- (1810-1874) ,Randolph,NC
3-- William Jasper THORN- (1829-1862) ,York,SC
sp-Martha- ( - )
3-- John Newton THORN- (1830- ) ,York,SC
sp-Elizabeth FULLER- ( - )
4-- Melvina THORN- (1853-) ,,AR
sp Zachariah C. McGUIRE- ( - )
4-- William A. THORN- (1855- ) ,,AR
4-- Martha J. THORN- (1856- ) ,,AR
4-- John Bailey THORN- (1858-1945) ,AR
sp Susan Jemimah WILSON- (1854-1928)
5-- Albert THORN- (1882-1969)
sp Florence COOPER- (1889- ) Lake City,Craighead,AR
5-- Jodella THORN- (1883- )
sp Tom ADDISON- ( - )
5-- Arthur Eugene THORN- [Sr.]- (1888-1981)
sp Elizabeth Virginia SEGRAVES- ( - )
5-- Bertha THORN- (1888-1888)
5-- Bess THORN- (1890- )
sp Ray AGEE- ( - )
5-- Estelle "Doll" THORN- (1893- )
sp Charley ADDISON- ( - )
5-- Hattie THORN- (1896-1987)
sp John COOPER-- (1894-1987) Lake City,Craighead,AR
5-- Hettie- (1896-1988)
sp Christopher CARPENTER- ( - )
4-- Frances E. THORN- (1860- ) ,,AR
4-- Jesse Jackson THORN- (1861- ) ,,AR
sp Rebecca STYLES- ( - )
4-- Archibald THORN- (1865- ) ,Craighead,AR
4-- Dawson H. THORN- (1868- ) ,Craighead,AR
4-- Harvey J. THORN- (1870- ) ,,AR
4-- Sarah Berdilla THORN- (1878-1919)
4-- Jacob Hezekiah THORN- (1873-1927)
4-- J. P. THORN- (1874- )
4-- Mary F. THORN- (1876- )
4-- J. J. THORN- (1880- )
sp Lucy JACOB- ( - )
3-- Alsey Sylvanus THORN- (BIO)- (1834-1905) ,York District,SC
sp-Elizabeth Ollie OWEN- (1834-1856) ,,TN
4-- Frances THORN- (1856- )
sp-W.B. MARDIS- ( - )
sp-Nannie BRADSHER- ( -1866) ,Poinsett,AR
4-- Ida THORN- ( - )
sp-HYDRICK- ( - )
5-- Nancy HYDRICK- ( - )
sp- Amanda Jane MARDIS- (1842-1894) ,,AL
4-- Jasper THORN- ( - )
4-- Eugenia THORN- ( - )
4-- William "Willie" N. THORN- (1871- )
4-- Amanda Ruth THORN- (1874-1980) ,Poinsett,AR
sp-David C. CAGWIN [Prof.]- ( - )
5-- Irene CAGWIN- ( - )
sp-Morgan GADDY- ( - )
6-- Leah Jeanne GADDY- ( - ) El Dorado,Union,AR
sp-Earl B. GLASGOW [Jr.]- ( - ) Trumann,Poinsett,AR
sp-L.C. COPELAND [Dr.]- ( - )
sp-John ROMAN- ( - )
sp-Tom BENNETT- ( - )
4-- Bessie Beatrice THORN- (1877-1893) ,Poinsett,AR
sp-Maria Louisa HOGGE- ( -1905)
4-- Jessie Miller THORN- (1896-1952)
sp-Myrna VANCIL- ( - )
5-- Greta Ruth THORN- (1922- )
sp-DARLING- ( - )
6-- Clyde DARLING- ( - )
6-- Roy DARLING- ( - )
sp-Howard SMITH- ( - )
6-- Stanley SMITH- ( - )
6-- Dwight SMITH- ( - )
sp-Effie Mae MILLER- (1906-1997)
5-- Leah Jeanne THORN- (1936- )
sp-Charles E. CRAIG- ( - )
6-- Regina Gail THORN- (1957- )
sp-Jack Franklin CURTRIGHT- ( - )
6-- Mark Anthony CURTRIGHT [adopted]- ( - )
5-- Alsey S. THORN- (1937- )
5-- Maria Louisa THORN- (1937- )
5-- Jessie Charles THORN- (1941-1988)
sp-Connie McMAHN- ( - )
6-- Cynthia Jo THORN- (1962- )
6-- Jessie Charles THORN [Jr.]- (1965- )
sp-Deborah NEWCOMB- ( - )
6-- Jessie THORN- (1976- )
6-- Brian THORN- (1979- )
6-- Daniel THORN- (1987- )
4-- Leah Malone THORN- (1901-1955)
sp-B.S. BRETTS- ( - )
5-- Charles BRETTS- ( - )
5-- Marilyn BRETTS- ( - )
3-- Mary THORN- (1830-1835) ,York District,SC
3-- Dawson Haman "Doss" THORN (BIO)- (1835-1898) ,York,SC
sp-Ann Eliza FORD- (1837-1871) ,,IL
4-- William T. THORN- (1859- ) Brookland,Craighead,AR
sp-ELDER- ( - )
sp-Ruth- ( - )
4-- Dawson Haman "Bud" THORN [Jr.]- (1863-1897) ,Craighead,AR
sp-Emma HUTCHINS- ( - )
4-- John Newton "Newt" THORN- (1866-1895) ,Craighead,AR
sp-Nancy Charity "Nan" MATTIX- (1870-1942) Overland,St. Louis,MO
5-- Dawson Hamen "D.H. or Dee" THORN- (1894-1945) ,Craighead,AR
sp-Sarah Luvina HENSON- (1895- ) ,Craighead,AR
6-- [stillborn] THORN- (1914-1914) Jonesboro,Craighead,AR
6-- Helen Douglas THORN- (1915- ) Jonesboro,Craighead,AR
6-- Roy Lonzo THORN- (1917-1917) Jonesboro,Craighead,AR
6-- Jewel Eugene "Gene" THORN- (1919-1987) Jonesboro,Craighead,AR
sp-Betty Gene BURRIS- (1923- )
7-- David Eugene THORN- (1942- )
sp-Sandra Claire MERGUIE- (1942- )
8-- Scott David THORN- (1972- )
5-- William Newton "Newt" THORN- (1896-1976) ,Craighead,AR
sp-Beulah Ivorine VINCENT- (1898-1993) Malden,Stoddard,MO
6-- Walter "Bud" THORN- ( - )
6-- Pauline THORN- ( - )
6-- Irene THORN- ( - )
6-- Ralph THORN- ( - )
6-- Raymond THORN- ( - )
6-- Rayda THORN-- ( - )
6-- Bonnie THORN- (1931- )
sp-Gwinn GORRELL- ( - )
7-- Deborah Lynne GORRELL STONER- ( - )
sp-Steven Hugh REED- ( - )
8-- Ryan Hugh REED- (1979- )
8-- Shannon Lee REED- (1982- )
sp-Edward STONER- ( - )
7-- Edward STONER- (1958- )
sp-Sandra SEALS- ( - )
8-- Morgan Lee STONER- (1992- )
8-- Micaela Nicole STONER- (1998- )
6-- James Donald THORN- (1933- ) St. Louis,St. Louis,MO
sp-Shirley ZAUCH- ( - )
6-- Milforn Ronald THORN- (1933- ) St. Louis,St. Louis,MO
sp-Catherine GLEBA- ( - )
4-- Nancy THORN- (1870- )
4-- Ann Eliza THORN- ( -1875)
sp-Cora HINSON- (1844-1923) ,,TN
4-- Jessie Jerome THORN- ( - )
sp-Charles RAGSDALE- ( - )
4-- THORN- (1879-1880)
4-- Eliza Ann THORN- (1879-1880)
3-- Harvey Jones THORN- (1837-1876) ,York,SC
sp-Sarah B. HUBBS- (1837-1895) ,,TN
4-- John H.P. THORN- (1858- )
4-- James T. THORN- (1860-1888)
4-- Jesse Andrew THORN- (1862-1919)
sp-Margaret WILSON- ( - )
5-- Harvey B. THORN- (1885- ) ,Poinsett,AR
sp-Sadie O. ALBRIGHT- (1889-1978) ,Poinsett,AR
6-- Juanita A. THORN- ( - )
sp-DUNCAN- ( - )
sp-W. Reynolds COX- ( - )
6-- Harvey B. THORN [Jr.]- ( - )
sp-Jean- ( - )
7-- Harvey B. THORN III- ( - )
sp-Toni- ( - )
6-- Margaret THORN- (1919-1991)
sp-ASHLEY- ( - )
sp- John E. MURPHY- (1916-2001) Lepanto,Poinsett,AR
7-- John E. MURPHY III- (1958- ) Memphis,Shelby,TN
sp-Sha- (1971- ) ,,AR
7-- Sally MURPHY- (1959- ) Memphis,Shelby,TN
6-- Maurine THORN- ( - )
sp-Joe L. ANDERSON- ( - )
7-- Nita Jon ANDERSON- ( - )
sp-Phillip B. PURIFOY- ( - )
7-- Joe B. ANDERSON- ( - )
sp-Betty WRAY- ( - )
6-- Garland Max THORN- (1924- )
sp-Mary E. BRIGANCE- (1928-2002) Marked Tree,Poinsett,AR
8-- Eliza Ann THORN- ( - )
sp-Hank GODWIN- ( - )
9-- Jason Max GODWIN- ( - )
9-- John Thomas GODWIN- ( - )
8-- Garland Max "Gary" THORN [Jr.]- ( - )
sp-Julia- ( - )
9-- Garland Max THORN [III]- ( - )
9-- Audrey Frances THORN- ( - )
9-- Andrew Dunn THORN- ( - )
8-- Thomas Clifton THORN- ( - )
sp-Hattie YARBOROUGH- ( - )
sp-Johnnie Bell MARDIS- ( - )
5-- Jack THORN- (1902-1982)
sp-Belle HUGHES- ( - )
sp-Birdie CAT- ( - )
4-- Mary Jane "Mollie" THORN- (1865-1960)
sp-James F. BENNETT- ( - )
4-- Sarah B. Alice THORN- (1867-1895)
sp-HARDIN- ( - )
3-- Zilla Jane THORN- (1841-1864) ,Calloway,KY
3-- Martha Ellen THORN- (1841-1908) ,Calloway,KY
sp-George W. HUBBS- ( - )
3-- Sarah Frances "Sally" THORN- (1844-1893) ,Calloway,KY
sp-Abraham BROWN- (1837-1899) ,Wilkes,NC
4-- Nancy Cordelia Ann "Deli" BROWN- (1866-1894)
sp-Guy F. WINNINGHAM- ( - )
5-- Joseph Eugene WINNINGHAM- (1886-1944)
sp-Jennifer HALL- ( - )
6-- Winifred WINNINGHAM- ( - )
6-- Guy Stanford WINNINGHAM- (1916- )
6-- Catherine WINNINGHAM- ( - )
5-- Bessie Marie WINNINGHAM- (1888- )
sp-Ike GENT- ( - )
6-- Jewel GENT- ( - )
6-- Harold GENT- ( - )
6-- Pete GENT- ( - )
6-- Coleen GENT- ( - )
4-- David Jesse BROWN- (1867-1885)
4-- Gracy Caldonia Adella BROWN- (1871-1951)
sp-James Claborn BOREN- (1867-1942)
5-- Ruth Adella BOREN- (1893-1962)
sp-Bert Irvin SWEENEY- ( - )
6-- Edward James SWEENEY- ( - )
6-- Bert Irvin SWEENEY [Jr.]- ( - )
5-- Bertie Ethel BOREN- (1897-1974)
sp-Edward WEBER- ( - )
6-- Charles Claborn WEBER- ( - )
6-- Ruth Anne WEBER- ( - )
5-- James Claborn BOREN [Jr.]- (1904-1952)
4-- Robert Newton BROWN- (1873-1941)
sp-Dora Idella REED- (1875- )
5-- Vernie BROWN- ( - )
5-- Georgia BROWN- ( - )
5-- Eva BROWN- ( - )
5-- Charles Newton BROWN- ( - )
5-- Claude BROWN- ( - )
5-- Pearl BROWN- ( - )
4-- Alce Romalis BROWN- (1875-1967)
sp-Rosa Edna HALL- (1874-1967)
5-- Archie Romalis BROWN- (1901-1998)
5-- Edna Lucille BROWN- (1904-1986)
sp-Delbert Donald WOFFORD- ( - )
6-- Delbert Romalis WOFFORD- ( - )
6-- Emily Ann WOFFORD- ( - )
4-- Silas Cleveland BROWN- (1886-1934)
sp-Mellicent "Millie" BURKHART- (1892- )
5-- Mary Madeline BROWN- (1916-1970)
sp-Steve EVANS- ( - )
6-- Steve EVANS- ( - )
5-- William Silas BROWN- (1918-1988)
sp-Frances - ( - )
6-- Patsy BROWN- ( - )
6-- Peggy BROWN- ( - )
6-- Michael BROWN- ( - )
sp-Frances - ( - )
6-- Alce Jerome BROWN- (1925-1979)
4-- Thomas Moses Abraham BROWN- (1876-1906)
4-- Joseph Alexander Meak BROWN- (1882-1895)
3-- J.J. THORN- (1845- ) Brookland,Craighead,AR
3-- Nancy C. THORN- (1850- ) Brookland,Craighead,AR
3-- Susan Caledonia Dova Thorn- (1851- ) Brookland,Craighead,AR
sp-Ples COLEMAN- (1830-1873)
4-- Luther Martin COLEMAN- (1875- )
4-- Emmett Anderson COLEMAN- (1878- )
sp-Charles BERRYMAN- (1846- ) ,,GA
4-- Charlie Ann BERRYMAN- (1870-1928)
sp-James Thomas TINER- (1865-1935)
5-- William T. TINER- (1887- )
sp-Callie Ann PITMAN- (1890-1930)
6-- Thedford TINER- (1907- )
6-- Theo TINER- (1909-2001)
sp-Corinie TANKSLEY- ( - )
7-- Leon J. TINER- ( - )
7-- Lohnes TINER- ( - )
7-- Loretta TINER- ( - )
sp-ECKERT- ( - )
6-- Troy TINER- (1910- )
6-- Que TINER- (1918-1998)
sp-Edith Marguerite VINSON- (1919-1996) Rankin,Upton,TX
7-- Nancy Jo TINER- (1937- )
sp-Diggs- ( - )
6-- Huston Billy TINER- (1928- )
4-- Noviela TINER- (1890- )
4-- Ethel TINER- (1892- )
4-- Clara TINER- (1902- )
4-- Norman TINER- (1906- )
4-- Raymond TINER- ( - )
sp-William O'GUINN- (1827-1899) ,Perry,TN
4-- Claunch O'GUINN- (1884-1950) ,,AR
sp-Rosa ADAMS- (1889-1973) Brookland,Craighead,AR
sp-Mary Alice ADDISON- (1886-1973) ,,AR
5-- Coy O'GUINN- (1908-1975) ,Craighead,AR
sp-BLOUNT- (1915- )
6-- Talmadge Foster O'GUINN- (1913-1995) ,,AR
6-- Shirl W. O'GUINN- (1916- ) ,,AR
sp-Woodrow COLEMAN- ( - )
5-- Romeo O'GUINN- (1916-1917)
sp-Cathy MOORE- (1959- )
6-- Bruno T. O'GUINN- (1978- )
6-- Tanner Coleman O'GUINN- (1982- )
4-- Mary E. O'GUINN- ( - )
4-- Charlie O'GUINN- ( - )
4-- Ella O'GUINN- ( - )
2-- Mary THORN- (1819- ) ,York,SC
sp-Haman H. FULLER- ( - )
2-- Hezekiah THORN [Jr.]- (1808- ) ,York,SC
D. H. THORN, of Jonesboro, a prominent and
prosperous farmer of Craighead County, was born in York District, S. C.,
September 1, 1836. His parents, Jesse and Frances (Miller) THORN, were
both natives of South Carolina. The paternal grandfather, Hezekiah THORN,
also a native of “The Palmetto State,” was a farmer by occupation, and
died in the State of his nativity. The maternal grandfather, Jacob Miller,
also a farmer, went from South Carolina to Kentucky, in an early day and
there died. Jesse THORN went to Calloway County, Ky., about 1838, and in
1844 came to Craighead (then Poinsett) County, Ark., and located twelve
miles south of the present site of Jonesboro. There he remained until 1850,
when he removed to what is known as East Bottom, where he settled in the
woods, building a little log cabin with clapboard roof and door, and puncheon
floor. They were subjected to all the privations and hardships incident
to pioneer life, using all manner of crude contrivances for making meal,
wearing home-spun and home-made clothing, and, with Memphis as the nearest
market, hauling there all produce with wagons and oxteams. Jesse THORN
was the first school teacher in the county, would make his crop and then
teach a subscription school for the remainder of the year. He taught for
several years, and died in this county in 1873, his wife having died two
years previously. They were the parents of thirteen children, only six
of
whom are now living: John N., Alsey S., Dawson H., Martha
(wife of G. W. Hubbs), Sarah (wife of Abraham Brown), Caledonia (wife of
William Guinn). One brother, William, was killed during the war. D. H.
THORN was but ten years of age when he came with his parents to Arkansas,
and, until his marriage, remained with his father assisting in clearing
the farm, and then settled near the old homestead where he resided until
1869. He then moved to Jonesboro, where he is now living in his second
house in Arkansas. In 1874 he was elected sheriff of Craighead County,
and was re-elected each successive election until 1880. He has served four
years as deputy sheriff, has been constable and justice of the peace, and
has been thirteen times a candidate for minor offices, and been each time
elected. He is one of the most extensive land owners in the county, and
has about 2,000 acres of land with 500 under cultivation, and has also
a large stock farm known as the Miller Mounds. His especial attention is
now given to the raising of fine stock. For twelve years he has been engaged
in the manufacture of lumber, owning two fine large saw-mills. He was first
married in 1858 to Eliza Ford, a native of Tennessee, and they are the
parents of three children, all married: William T., Dawson H. and John
N. He was again married in 1876, to Cora Henson, also a native of Tennessee,
a consistent Christian and member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mr.
THORN is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and a leading citizen of the
county. Having been a pioneer citizen, he has witnessed the rapid growth
and development of the county, the change from a cane brake to the thriving
little city of Jonesboro. By industry, thrift and economy, he has accumulated
a competency, and can now enjoy the fruits of his toil. -GOODSPEED'S BIOGRAPHICAL
and HISTORICAL MEMOIRS of NE AR, 1891.
****************** Jesse THORN *** Craighead County********************
In 1838 the Jesse THORNs moved with their children to Calloway County, Kentucky, where
they remained until about 1844 when they moved to Arkansas, to what was then Poinsett
County and is now Craighead County. In Kentucky Jesse owned 160 acres of land on
Clarks River, a waterway which bisects Calloway County as it runs form north to south.
In Poinsett County, Arkansas, the THORNs first lived about twelve miles south of the
present Jonesboro, and then in 1850 they moved to the East Bottom section of the county,
building a log house in the woods.
The house had a clapboard roof and door, and the floor was puncheon. They raised produce
and hauled it sixty or so miles to Memphis, Tennessee, across the Mississippi River, in
wagons pulled by oxen.
Jesse THORN was the first school teacher in Craighead County, opening in 1850 a subscription
school on the Maumelle Prairie about four miles south of the present Lake City and several
milses east of what is now Lunsford. The school was in a log cabin; and since Jesse THORN
was a farmer, it didn't open until he had harvested his crop. A person passing the school,
it is reported, heard a great noise inside, which was the students reciting their lessons
aloud as they studied---in the learning style prevalent in that period.
Jesse was also the first school commissioner in Craighead County, being in charge of the
sixteenth section lands set aside by Congress for public education.
In politics Jesse was first a Whig, later becoming a Republican.
In physical appearance he allegedly was tall, slender, and fair of complexion.
Jesse and Frances were the parents of thirteen children. The six oldest were born in York
County, South Carolinia: William Jasper, born about 1829, who was married to a woman named
Martha (Mamie) and was killed in the Civil War while serving in the cavalry; John Newton,
born about 1830, who was married to Elizabeth Fuller; Alsey Sylvanus, born June 21, 1834,
who wa married four(five) times to (Elizabeth d. 1856-buried Buffalo Lick Cemetery) Ollie
Owen, Nannie Bradsher, Amanda J. Mardis, and Maria Louise Hogge, his first three(four) wives
leaving him a widower; Mary, born in the early 1830's who died young; Dawson Haman, born
September 1, 1836, who married to Eliza Ford and then to Cora Hinson; and Harvey Jones,
born October 25, about 1837, who was married to Sarah Hubbs. Three daughters were born in
Calloway County, Kentucky: Ailla Jane, born about 1840, who died in 1864; Martha Ellen,
born about 1841, who was married to George W. Hubbs, and Sarah Frances, born September 6,
1844, who was married to Abraham Brown. The remaining children were born in Craighead County, Arkansas, in the
area that was then still a part of Poinsett County; a son with the initials of J. J.,
born about 1845, who apparently died before reaching adulthood; Nancy, born about 1850,
who probably died as a young adult; and Susan Caledonia Dova, born about 1852, who first
married to Charles BERRYMAN, later to a man with the surname of COLEMAN, and then to WIlliam
O'GUINN.
Jesse THORN died in the early 1870's, soon after he had retired from farming and moved to
Jonesboro, Frances having died about one year earlier. He and Frances are buried in the City
Cemetery, Jonesboro, without inscribed tombstones, near the plot of their son, Dawson THORN
and the plot of their daughter Sarah THORN Brown. -Clyde THORN, Jr.