Brief Life History of William Warren
When William Warren Thornberry was born about 1858, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Samuel B Thornberry, was 26 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Orr, was 25. He married Ida Bell Grumbles on 12 April 1885, in Maricopa, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Union, Kentucky, United States in 1860 and Arizona, United States in 1870. He died in 1896, at the age of 39.
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Sources (9)
- Warren W Thornbury in household of Mary Thornbury, "United States Census, 1870"
- Wm. W. Thornbury, "Arizona Marriages, 1865-1949"
- Wm. Thornberry in entry for Thomas Lee Thornberry, "Arizona Deaths, 1870-1951"
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World Events (8)
1861
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern): habitational name from any of various places called Thornbury, in particular Thornbury (Gloucestershire), Thornbury (Herefordshire), or perhaps Thornbury (Devon), or Thornbury in Bradford (Yorkshire). These placenames derive from Old English thorn ‘thorn’ + burg ‘fortress’ or ‘manor’.
English: variant of Thornber .
Irish: adopted for various Irish names containing an element meaning ‘thorn’; compare Thornton .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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