...the 1820s. Outside, the mango-colored plaster will be stripped off, revealing the original red brick exterior. Ann Thornton, a Madison descendant and president of a 700-member family organization, is lending Montpelier china and a walnut...

...a good family unit and to fulfill its role, he said. "I cannot pastor the way Dad does." Comfort in the church Ann Thornton never felt put on the spot growing up in United Presbyterian churches in the Charlotte, N.C., area, where her...

...Tignall, and of the late Lawrence Thornton. He was a State Farm Insurance Agent in Athens. Survivors include his wife, Ann Thornton, of Madison; one son, Russ Thornton of Athens; two daughters, Nechelle Thornton-Stam of Atlanta and Ashley Thornton...

...daughters, Janis Johnson Baughman of Aiken, S.C., Carolyn Johnson Runyon of Summerfield, N.C. and Patricia Ann Thornton of Walterboro, S.C.; one sister, Helen Johnson Crawford of Charlotte, N.C.; numerous nieces and cousins...