Part 4: The Thorne and Brown Settlements

Stephanie Ann Williams Tulloch First Daughter 

and David Tulloch Second Grand Son From 

Darnell Williams

This is the continuing story of the family that makes up Stephanie Ann Williams Tulloch and Amanda Ann Williams III. This is a walk down their family tree from has early as 1803 to today.  These American Blacks and  their descendants are made up of Cherokees, Manahoics, (Native Americans) possibly Benin (Africans), and Jamaicans. The Jamaicans are made up of East Indians.  Native American  (Arawak and Taíno) peoples, and other peoples of the British Empire.  The idea of this series of articles is to explain why this family of 200 years has evolved the way it has evolved.  

We left off in "Part 3: Free Union" and the other two parts explaining the history and geography of the times. We were talking about the first Lacey Brown and Eliza Thorne who came to Stony Pointe and Free Union before and after the Civil War. Eliza Thorne set up her 11 acre farm in the Free Union area near the Free Union Church. The Browns created "Brown Town near Free Union Church and some moved a mile down  the road to a place called Profits.   

This is ex-slave Eliza Thorne.

She is 7 generations away from

David Tulloch

The Thorne Settlement

U.S. Route 29 (US 29) is a major north–south route in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It covers 248 miles (399 km) from the North Carolina border at the city of Danville to the Key Bridge in Washington, D.C.. US 29 roughly bisects Virginia into eastern and western halves, and along with Interstate 81 in western Virginia, and 85/95 farther east, provides one of the major north–south routes through the Commonwealth.

For much of its length, US 29 in Virginia is known as the Seminole Trail. Through Northern Virginia, it is known asLee Highway, except in Falls Church, where it acts as the east/west divider for city streets and is called North or South Washington Street. On April 7, 1993 the Virginia General Assembly officially designated the entire length of US 29 from the North Carolina border to the Potomac River as the "29th Infantry Division Memorial Highway" in honor of that Army unit, which, along with the 1st Infantry Division, formed the spearhead of the American infantry that landed on the morning of 6 June 1944 on Omaha Beach in Normandy as part of the invasion of France to liberate that country during World War II. These divisions next fought their way across France, and into Germany. In addition, the name of this highway serves to honor many members of the Virginia Army National Guard who serve as part of this National Guard Division today. Signs indicating this designation have been placed periodically on both sides of US 29.

Eliza Thorne came down RT. 29 from Culpeper with her sisters;  Maria, Violet, and Jane after they were read the emancipation Proclamation on the Culpeper courthouse steps.  They went to Free Union leaving slavery behind.

Eliza had children by  Mr. Thorne, Mr. West,  and Mr. Walker.  I don't know if these men died or what the status of their marriages were. Eliza Thorne lived to be over 100 years old.  I known that she was the last to die among her husband's. She created three families that still exist today. Some have intermarried between one another. Some married into several parts of the Brown Family.  Some did not know that they did. I found out after I married my first wife.  My Father-in Law told me after he discovered me looking up his family.

The Thorne Property Court Case

 The reason why I know the history of the Thorne's is because of a court case that came up, a dispute concerning the ownership of her 11 acres of property that she owned in the 1980s. She handed her property down to her grandson. He handed her property down to his son. However the son of Eliza Thorne had no rights to the property because it was not passed down by a will or trust. The Grandson of Eliza Thorne had no will. So the court had to go back to the original owner, That was Eliza Thorne so that the court can settle this case from there. 

Now we go on to Robert and Eliza West, the daughter of  Eliza.   Here daughter Mary Etta West who they call  Aunt Et married William Tyree. They are buried behind Eliza Thorne's old house.  Now we are getting down to the names that the current generation knows.  Lucinda West  married Edward Kaine.  They had one adopted child, Edward Kaine by Ed. They also had 5 children between them, Rachel, Esther, Emma, Daisy, and Tucker.   

If you guessed that the descendants of Eliza Thorne and the Browns married into each other's families, you are correct. Many of them had no transportation like we have today. We can go 200 miles in 3 hours. In  1880, they can walk 15 miles in 3 hours. So your chances of getting a mate that is not in your family is small.  

This is the reason why many families live no more than a mile and because of the distance, stop speaking to each other.