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This page is dedicated
to ongoing research on the Robert Cyril Thornton and Harriet
Clayton Head Thornton family and a possible plantation they
may have had in the Stewart County area, which may have
extended into the neighboring county of Randolph (possibly
as large as 1600 acres, from Lumpkin and Districts 19 and
20 in Stewart County to the 9th District - and possibly
the 10th District - and Cuthbert in Randolph County). Part
of the property may have been near Singer Pond in Stewart
County (near Trotman Road). This family owned many slaves
and had connections to Mississippi where some slaves may
have been bought/born and brought back to Georgia to work
on the plantation just prior to or about the time of the
Civil War (possibly as early as 1847). This is an effort
to not only document the white Thornton family, but to also
attempt to document at least some of the slaves they owned
(and who may have taken their surname) to create a foundation
for future research to assist their descendents in learning
their family histories.
This research was started
by Linda Russell who descends from Wesley and Emily Thornton
of Stewart County, GA, African-Americans who were born in
North Carolina and Mississippi, respectively. As with any
searches you may do for family information, do not take
anything you find as fact without getting your own documentation
to back up claims of family relationships, dates, names,
etc. The more documentation you can find, the stronger the
case you can make. This information is presented as a "rough
draft" only, meant to assist researchers in their quest
for their roots. Do not quote this information without proper
attribution back to this Stewart County site which is part
of the Georgia GenWeb Project. A better solution is to refer
others back to this site directly rather than quoting anything,
that way they can read the information themselves as it
is originally presented.
If you have any other information
on this family, associated surnames, or information on a
possible plantation owned by a Thornton family in the Stewart
County area and would like to contribute to this research,
please contact
Belinda
Slocumb, your Stewart County Coordinator.
Robert Cyril Thornton
and Harriet Clayton Head Thornton
Wesley and Emily Thornton:
possible former slaves of the Thornton family
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