Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Thornton Family Papers, Accession 2077-f, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

This collection was a gift to the Library by O. Allan Gianniny, Jr. of Charlottesville, Virginia, on December 5, 1994.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

There are five items, 1862, 1924, and n.d., pertaining to the Thornton family and particularly John Thruston Thornton . Thornton (1824-1862), the son of William Mynn Thornton and Elizabeth Anderson Thornton, born at Oak Hill , Cumberland County, Virginia , on November 17, 1824, was a University of Virginia law school graduate killed at the battle of Antietam during the Civil War. There is a photostat of a document "In Memoriam of John T. Thornton/Sept. 19th 1862/Among the many noble and brave men lost by Virginia/During the present War, a place second to that held by none, is due to/Lieut. Col. John T. Thornton..." and a framed photograph of Thornton ["Monroe Hill Taken by Miss Anna Dorman Summer of 1915"--note written in hand of William Mynn Thornton]. Other items include two genealogical charts of the Fall Hill and Oak Hill lines of the Thornton family , descended from William Thornton who migrated from Yorkshire to Virginia in 1840; and, the "Drama-Music/Fashions-Society" section of The New York TImes for May 4, 1924.