The Overcashes of Atlanta:Information about Mary Ann Blackwelder
Mary Ann Blackwelder (b. December 11, 1825, d. Aft. 1880)
Notes for Mary Ann Blackwelder:
In the 1870 census, Mary Ann is shown as Annie and is living with her son, Thomas Thornburg and his wife Eliza.Also in the household was her mother, Christina.Thomas is shown as age 28 and Eliza is 26.There were living next door to John Paulus Blackwelder's family.
There is some confusion as to whether Mary Ann was married twice.Son Thomas would have been born when mary Ann was age 16, 6 years before she married Samuel Thornburg.She also may have been married 1st to Samuel's brother and after his death, she married Samuel.It may well be that she had Thomas as an illigitmate child and Samuel adopted him after their marriage and raised him as his own..(may not have been a legal adoption)
More About Mary Ann Blackwelder and Samuel Thornburg:
Marriage: December 19, 1849, Mecklenburg Co., NC.
Children of Mary Ann Blackwelder and Samuel Thornburg are:
- Thomas Thornburg, b. 1842, d. WFT Est. 1859-1932.