Thornton Cousins: Thomas Monroe Kitchens (1869 - 1945)



The Kitchens family arrived in Southern Kentucky with Jesse Kitchens and his wife, Elizabeth Lucinda Cassity.  Many of their children and grandchildren would marry Thorntons, most notably Sarah "Lizzie" Kitchens who married John H. Thornton, my 2nd Great Grandfather. 

The family, pictured above, is that of Thomas Monroe and Narcissa Mittie Huffines Kitchens and seven of their children: Clarence, Columbus "Lum," Velma, Mary, Erma Lee, George, and Ernest.  Erma Lee would later marry James Herschel Thornton, son of John and Lizzie.





Thomas Monroe and Mittie Huffines Kitchens.



Wedding Certificate: John H. and Lizzie Kitchens Thornton

John William Thornton

John William Thornton (1898-1991) was the son of John H and Lizzie Kitchens Thornton. He married three times. By Mary Susan Mink, he had a daughter, Dorothy. He then had a short marriage to Nellie ?, who died while very young. John and Nellie had one son: William Hayden Thornton.


Dorothy was raised in the household of Robert Monroe and Susie Mink Thornton (Corydon, Indiana).







Then, John married Susie Pearl Dixon and had three more children: Richard, Jane, and Jimmy Leon.



















A family picture from the early 1960s. The 1962 date has yet to be confirmed.











The family...