Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Thornburgh, Dempsey October 26, 1801 - 
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Dalton Township
p. 454 & 455
	
Dempsey Thornburgh, section 24, Dalton Township, was born Oct. 27, 1801, on 
the banks of Lost Creek, East Tennessee, a son of Walter and Mary (Baldwin 
Thornburgh, natives of North Carolina, of English descent, who came to Wayne 
County, Ind., in 1819, and settled on 160 acres of Government land in Perry 
Township, subsequently adding to it till they had 800 acres. After getting 
their children provided for they went to Economy, where he opened the first 
store in the place. Our subject was married Dec. 22, 1822, to Jane, daughter 
of John and Mary (Davis) Mills, who came from Tennessee in an early day, first 
settling in Ohio, and in 1819 came to Wayne County. After his marriage Mr. 
Thornburgh settled on the farm where he now resides. It was at that time 
heavily timbered, but he has lived to see it one of the finest farms in the 
township. Mr. and Mrs. Thornburgh had a family of twelve children, eight of 
whom are still living---Irena, wife of L. Dennis, of Dalton Township; Walter, 
of Carthage,. Mo.; Zurilda, wife of S. Hutchins; Seth M., of Henry County, 
Ind.; William R., of Dalton Township; Thomas E., of Delaware County, Ind. Mary 
J., Rachel, John and James are deceased. Mrs. Thornburgh died Sept. 23, 1880, 
after a married life of nearly threescore years. Mr. Thornburgh and his wife 
were members of the Society of Friends from early childhood.

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