Benjamin THORNBURGH

   Another name for Benjamin was Benjamin J. THORNBURGH.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Religion: disunity, 1781, Hopewell, Frederick County, VA. Benjamin Thornbrough was dismissed on 7/2/1781 at Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Virginia for disunity.

• Occupation: Justice of the Peace : Jefferson County, TN.

• Biography. Benjamin Thornbrough was dismissed on 7/2/1781 at Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Virginia for disunity. At some point in time he moved to future Tennessee as he was married to Sarah Hayes in 1787 in the State of Franklin, Tennessee according to a "Discourse on the Thornburg Family. " They were actually married in Greene County, North Carolina but in the minds of residents it was the State of Franklin organized in 1784 by the settlers and a petition made to join the Union (ignored by Congress). They actually lived in the area of New Market in future Jefferson County, Tennessee. The children of Benjamin and Sarah included Ai Thornbrough (b 10/7/1793); John (b 9/10/1795); Nimrod; Samuel (b abt 1799); Polly (Mary); Nancy: and Kitty.

Sarah Hayes Thornbrough was living with son Samuel Thornburgh and his wife Sarah Moody in Jefferson County, Tennessee in 1850: 1231 Samuel Thornburgh, 51, farmer, born Tn; Sarah, 41, Tn; Benjamin C., 20, student; Lowry (male), 18, Tn; Rachel, 15, Tn; Ellen, 8, Tn; Samuel, 3, Tn; Sarah Thornburgh, 85, born Virginia. Samuel's last will and testament was written 9th of April 1881 and is included in the "Discourse on the Thornburg Family." He names wife Sarah; daughter Rachel Campbell; grandsons Thomas and Samuel (sons of Benjamin Calloway Thornburgh); son Samuel P. Thornburgh; daughter Ethel Mount; daughter Emily Caldwell.

Benjamin married Sarah HAYS, daughter of Nicholas HAYS and Alice HUNTER, in 1787 in Greene County, TN. (Sarah HAYS was born in 1767 in Frederick County, VA and died in 1830 in Jefferson County, TN.)