Overview
Location
Watsonia, Greene Co., AL
Date Constructed/ Founded
1833
Associated Surnames
Thornton
Historical notes
none
Associated Slave Workplaces
Fall Hill Plantation (Spotsylvania Co., VA)
Associated Free Persons
- James Innes Thornton (b.1800-d.1877) - plantation owner; born at Fall Hill Plantation
- Mary Glover Thornton - first wife of James I. Thornton (m.1825); sister of Williamson Allen Glover who owned the neighboring Rosemount Plantation
- two children
- Ann Amelia Smith Thornton (b.1811-d.1864) - second wife of James I. Thornton
- Delia Frances Thornton (b.1832-d.1910) - daughter of James I. and Ann A.S. Thornton
- George Francis Thornton (b.1838-d.1893) - son of James I. and Ann A.S. Thornton
- Catherine M. "Kate" Thornton (b.1840-d.1870) - daughter of James I. and Ann A.S. Thornton
- Ennis Thornton (b.1841-d.1878) - daughter of James I. and Ann A.S. Thornton
- Harry Innes Thornton (b.1845-d.?) - son of James I. and Ann A.S. Thornton
- Butler Brayne Thornton (b.1846-d.1905) - daughter of James I. and Ann A.S. Thornton
- Sarah Williams Gould Thornton (b.1815-d.1885) - third wife of James I. Thornton
Associated Enslaved Persons
1860 Slaves of James Thornton
From 1860 Greene Co. Slave Schedule, Extracted by Tom Blake
- THORNTON, James J.?, 156 slaves, Forkland, page 291B
Research Leads and Plantation Records
Miscellaneous Information
Associated Buildings
- Mansion: the two story frame mansion with a mahogany spiral staircase was built by carpenters whom the builder James Innes Thornton brought from Virginia.
- Family Schoolhouse
- Wash Place: see photo from "Back of the Big House: The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation" by John Michael Vlach (online exhibition). http://www.gwu.edu/~folklife/bighouse/
References
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