Mary Magdalen ALVEY

   Other names for Mary were Magdalen ALVEY and Magdelen ALVEY.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Biography. Mary Magdalen Alvey (b. 1817, Washington County, d. after 1870, probably in Harrison County, Ind.), a daughter of James Alvey Jr. and Susannah Al-vey, married Benjamin S. Thornberry (b. 1810, Ky.), a son of Benjamin Thornberry and Eleanor Suttle, on 13 December 1833 in Hardin County.

The family moved to Indiana sometime before June 1845.

Mary and Benjamin's nine children were Rebecca Harriet (b. 23 September 1836, Hardin County), William Thomas (b. before 6 January 1839, Hardin County, m. Sarah E. Brandenburg), James Henry (b. before 4 October 1840, Hardin County, m. Amanda M. Newman), John Harrison (b. 8 June 1845, Perry County, Ind.), Susan E. (b. 1847, Harrison County, Ind., m. Malachi Monk), Martha Catherine (b. 28 May 1850, Perry County, Ind.), Caroline (b. 1853, Ind., m. Philo Rothrock), John Rush (b. 1857, Ind., m. Lena Keller), and Bertha (b. after 1860).

• See also. http://history.ky.gov/pdf/Publications/Ancestors_v39_n1.pdf

Mary married Benjamin S. THORNBERRY, son of Benjamin THORNBERRY and Eleanor SUTTLE, on 13 Dec 1833 in Hardin County, KY. (Benjamin S. THORNBERRY was born in 1810 in KY.)