I am looking for information agout my ggggfather with little success .The main reason for my problem is that Jaudon has been misspelled in the records MANY! times .Jodan in one of the ways I have seem it spelled .Thornton was born in S, C. in 1826 ,though the 1900 census list his birth place as Alabama . He married Sinthia Myers in Tuscaloosa ,Ala. in1846 .He is listed as Judon orJodan there .He lived the rest of his life in or around Fosters ,Ala. He died in 1910 and is burried in Grants Creek cemetery in Fosters .During the civil war he served in the second Ala. cal. Can any one help ? Anne