Thomas [Thornburg] married Margaret Miller and lived to the age of eighty years. He was engaged in the mercantile business at Barboursville, and was one of the first school commissioners of the county named under the law of 1846. He was the county superintendent of schools, and perhaps the first of these. Although the records do not show the original appointment, he served in this capacity from 1849 to 1860. He was a member of the General Assembly of Virginia, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1872, and was named as proxy to vote the stock owned by the county in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. He was a charter member [and past master] of Minerva Lodge, 13, A.F. & A.M. of Barboursville, and a strong union man.
Thomas Thornburg and his wife, Margaret Miller Thornburg, had five children: Thomas Bailey, Elizabeth, married Dr. A.B. McGinnis; Ellen E., married Captain W.M. Hovey, and was the grandmother of Captain T.W. Peyton; John, a lieutenant in the C.S.A., married Mary Long of Mason County, and died without issue; and George E., born June 28, 1846, married Nancy Wilson; succeeded to his father's mercantile business in Barboursville at the close of the war, and continued therein until the time of his death. He was an active Mason, and at one time Grand Master of the State. He died without issue. Thomas Bailey married Nettie Samuels, and had two children.
[George Selden Wallace, Cabell County Annals and Families (Richmond, Va., 1935), p 502.]
Thomas Thornburg and his wife, Margaret Miller Thornburg, had five children: Thomas Bailey, Elizabeth, married Dr. A.B. McGinnis; Ellen E., married Captain W.M. Hovey, and was the grandmother of Captain T.W. Peyton; John, a lieutenant in the C.S.A., married Mary Long of Mason County, and died without issue; and George E., born June 28, 1846, married Nancy Wilson; succeeded to his father's mercantile business in Barboursville at the close of the war, and continued therein until the time of his death. He was an active Mason, and at one time Grand Master of the State. He died without issue. Thomas Bailey married Nettie Samuels, and had two children.
[George Selden Wallace, Cabell County Annals and Families (Richmond, Va., 1935), p 502.]
Thomas [Thornburg] married Margaret Miller and lived to the age of eighty years. He was engaged in the mercantile business at Barboursville, and was one of the first school commissioners of the county named under the law of 1846. He was the county superintendent of schools, and perhaps the first of these. Although the records do not show the original appointment, he served in this capacity from 1849 to 1860. He was a member of the General Assembly of Virginia, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1872, and was named as proxy to vote the stock owned by the county in the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. He was a charter member [and past master] of Minerva Lodge, 13, A.F. & A.M. of Barboursville, and a strong union man.
Thomas Thornburg and his wife, Margaret Miller Thornburg, had five children: Thomas Bailey, Elizabeth, married Dr. A.B. McGinnis; Ellen E., married Captain W.M. Hovey, and was the grandmother of Captain T.W. Peyton; John, a lieutenant in the C.S.A., married Mary Long of Mason County, and died without issue; and George E., born June 28, 1846, married Nancy Wilson; succeeded to his father's mercantile business in Barboursville at the close of the war, and continued therein until the time of his death. He was an active Mason, and at one time Grand Master of the State. He died without issue. Thomas Bailey married Nettie Samuels, and had two children.
[George Selden Wallace, Cabell County Annals and Families (Richmond, Va., 1935), p 502.]
Thomas Thornburg and his wife, Margaret Miller Thornburg, had five children: Thomas Bailey, Elizabeth, married Dr. A.B. McGinnis; Ellen E., married Captain W.M. Hovey, and was the grandmother of Captain T.W. Peyton; John, a lieutenant in the C.S.A., married Mary Long of Mason County, and died without issue; and George E., born June 28, 1846, married Nancy Wilson; succeeded to his father's mercantile business in Barboursville at the close of the war, and continued therein until the time of his death. He was an active Mason, and at one time Grand Master of the State. He died without issue. Thomas Bailey married Nettie Samuels, and had two children.
[George Selden Wallace, Cabell County Annals and Families (Richmond, Va., 1935), p 502.]
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THOMAS THORNBURG / OCT. 6, 1818 - OCT. 31, 1897 / "MARK THE PERFECT MAN / AND BEHOLD THE UPRIGHT / FOR THE END OF THAT MAN / IS PEACE"
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