Talbot County GaArchives Biographies.....Seaborn W. Thornton 
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Author: L.W. Smith, H.F. Wilkerson, O.D. Gorman

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, June 7, 1906
Page 6

In Memory of Seaborn W. Thornton

It is not commonplace to say, that when a good man dies, those who knew him 
best have suffered an irreparable loss, and the community in which he lived had 
subtracted from its activities an appreciable force.  It would seem that we are 
not mindful enough of the virtues of our friends, until they have left us, so 
accustomed are we to expecting much of them.  And yet this confidence in their 
ability to achieve notable results and accomplish difficult enterprises is the 
sincerest praise that could be accorded them.

The subject of our sketch was born in Talbot County, Sept. 9th, 1842.  He 
entered the confederate service early in 1861 serving in Western Virginia that 
year, and afterwards actively participated in all the campaigns of the army of 
Northern Virginia under Gen. Lee, the greater part of the time holding the rank 
of Captain.

At the close of his devoted service for the south, Captain Thornton returned to 
Talbotton and a year later was elected Clerk of the Superior Court, which 
office he held two years.

He then engaged in commercial enterprises, in which he achieved notable 
success.  He organized the Talbotton Railroad Company, and was largely 
instrumental in building the road, to which he was elected President, retaining 
that position twenty-four years.

He also built the only large brick hotel in Talbotton, known as the Thornton 
House.

As a businessman he displayed remarkable executive ability and he retained 
during his life the confidence and esteem of the community.

In 1867, he was happily married to Miss Julia Weeks, of Talbotton.  Two 
children, William J. and Mrs. Martha Wilkerson, with Mrs. Thornton survive 
him.  He was a man of liberal endowments and generous impulses, a true friend, 
a tender father and husband, a noble gentleman.  He died June 16th, 1905.

L.W. Smith
H.F. Wilkerson
O.D. Gorman






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