Lucy Frances Thornton

Lucy married John Posey in 1798. John (son of Hon. Thomas Posey and Martha Matthews) was born on 19 Sep 1774 in Virginia; died on 25 Nov 1851 in Henderson Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Martha Anne Thompson Posey was born in 1815 in Henderson Co, Kentucky; died after 1860.

George married Mary Alexander on 9 Oct 1773 in Stafford Co, Virginia. Mary was born on 26 Nov 1756 in Stafford Co, Virginia; died on 18 May 1837 in Henderson Co, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Francis married Mary Frances Gregory about 1734 in Westmoreland Co, Virginia. Mary was born in 1720 in Spotsylvania Co, Virginia; died on 22 Jan 1790 in Stafford Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 1735, Essex Co, Virginia

Notes:

Other-Begin:
One of the excrs. to Charles Taliaferro's will was Francis Thornton, husband of Mary (Taliaferro) Thornton--the sister of John Taliaferro of "Snow Creek" and a niece of the decedent.

Francis married Mary Elizabeth Taliaferro on 3 Sep 1703 in Snow Creek, Essex Co, Virginia. Mary (daughter of Colonel John "The Ranger" Taliaferro and Sarah Smith) was born about 1685 in Powhattan Plant, Essex Co, Virginia; died after 1758 in of, Essex Co, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The TALIAFERRO Family in Legend and History.
The TALIAFERRO family has since near the beginning of the history of the Virginia Colony been an influential and cultured family. The name is pronounced as though it were spelled "TOLIVER."
The legend as to the beginning of the family name is that Julius CAESAR, while inspecting the Roman military camp at Gaul at twilight, was surrounded by hostile Gaelic warriors. CAESAR's bravery caused the leader of the band to spare his life. In the course of time that leader, himself a captive of CAESAR, was freed and made a personal attendant of CARSAR. Although Romans only were permitted to bear arms, an exception was made for that Gaelic leader, and he became known by the latin names of "telum" or dart, and "ferro" which means "to bear."
[NOTE] The family has been prominant for many years; the favorite wife of King John of ENG was Isabel, daughter of County Aymer de TAILLEFER, the swordsmith. And to get to the ancestry we can trace, we have to move forward only about three hundred years.