THORNTON W. WILLIAMSON was born in Taylor County, Virginia, on August 19, 1829. He worked on the family farm until age twenty-four, when he worked on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for a year. He then moved to Cedar County, Iowa, then to Barton County, Missouri, and returned to Page County, Iowa, thento Jefferson County, Iowa. He was usually engaged in the lime trade, which he marketed later in Polk City and Rising Sun, Iowa. In 1870 Thornton Williamson moved to Cass County, Iowa, and located on a farm in Pleasant Township, where he remained for five years. He then purchased a farm of nearly 200 acres in Brighton Township and engaged in stock raising and feeding. Mr. Williamson married Sarah J. Millard in Barton County, Missouri, in 1859 and as of 1884 the couple had five children - James F., John W., Celestia A., Alva and Matilda.

Transcribed from "The First Century, A History of Marne, Iowa 1875 - 1975", published in 1975, Marne, Iowa: The Marne Centennial Historical Committee, pg. 44. Transcribed (2015) by Cheryl Siebrass and contributed September, 2019.

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