Family
Samuel W. Thornton married Sarah Larimer on September 14, 1854, and had eight children: Eva, William, Charles, Mary Etta, Harry Lyle, Mabel, Kate, and Lillie. William would later serve as President, Board of Directors, Union Valley Telephone Company. Samuel later married Dallastine Hopkins.
Samuel was a cousin of Military Reconstruction Judge James Johnston Thornton of Seguin, Texas, and the Thorntons of Logansport: Dr. William Patton Thornton, Judge William Wheeler Thornton, and Sir Henry Worth Thornton.
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