Biography: Reuben Thornton, Woodford County
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Submitted by Sandi Gorin <http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404
Date: 10 Aug 1998
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As posted on the KY Biographies mail list:

From:  Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887,
Woodford Co.S. 

REUBEN THORNTON was born in Mercer County, Ky., October 21, 1826, and is
the youngest son of Jerry and Sarah (Claxton) Thornton, the former a
carpenter by trade, but a farmer the greater part of his life, who died in
Mercer County. S. Reuben Thornton, when eight years of age, was taken by
his father to Woodford County, where he was reared on a farm, and educated
at the common schools. September 11, 1852, he married Miss Sarah, daughter
of Boone and Mary (Hamilton) McDonald, of Woodford County, and there have
been born to him nine children, of whom seven are still living: Sarah
J.,Ellen B. (married to Henry Deringer), Wallace (who married J. Deringer),
Mittie, Alleen, Giralda and Rena. Mr. Thornton, wife, Sarah J. and EllenB.
are members of the Christian Church. Wallace, Mittie, Alleen and Giralda
aremembers of the Methodist Church South. Mr. Thornton is engaged in
farming,and is the owner of 320 acres in Clover Bottom Precinct, Woodford
County.

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