Uriah Thornburgh
Uriah Thornburgh, wagon-maker, Newport. Thomas Thornburgh, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Tennessee. He came North and settled in Clinton County, from there moving to West Lancaster, and thence to this county in 1855. He was twice married, first to Rebecca Mann, by whom he had two children. By his second wife he had seven children. Our subject was born near Jamestown, Greene County, Ohio, August 11, 1827, where he was reared and educated. On June 26, 1851, he married Mary Cox, who was born in Randolph County, Ind., February 8, 1835. By this union eleven children were born, viz.: Sarah, born August 27, 1852, and married S. Yates, July 1, 1874; Joseph W., born June 10, 1857, and married Ida Hopkins in August, 1874; Lizzie, born December 1, 1861; Mary Belle, born in 1866; Almira, born January 14 1870; Louella, born March 15, 1855, married in March, 1875, and died at the age of twenty-two years two months and seven days. The rest died young. Uriah, the father of our subject, was born in Tennessee, June 17, 1794, and married Sarah Hiett, who came to this country when quite young and died June 1815. He then married Sarah Hill, who was born August, 1793, and died March 26, 1835. He had the following children, Elizabeth, G. W., uriah, Margaret, Sarah, and others tha died in infancy.
From History of Madison County - W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]