"Follow your bliss." ~ Joseph Campbell [1904-1987]

Thorn Hill https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/AL-01-063-0093

Thorn Hill on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornhill_(Forkland,_Alabama)

Thorn Hill at the Library of Congress https://loc.gov/pictures/item/al0209/

Fall Hill on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_Hill

KATE THORNTON [1842-1870], 1859 GRADUATE OF MRS. STAFFORD'S SCHOOL IN TUSCALOOSA

from the August 24, 1859 TUSCALOOSA INDEPENDENT MONITOR

  

produced by Brock Jones

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49793814/cathrine-marshall-thornton

March 3, 1895 San Francisco Examiner

Betty Woolf Thornton

"This is a photo of them in 1920.  In the background was Betty’s father Judge Woolf who was the probate judge for Marengo County.  He lived at Thornhill in his later years. Betty and he are buried in Dayton, AL."~ Brock Jones

page 97 of STARS FELL ON ALABAMA by Carl Carmer:

Miss Betty said," I brought this old love letter of a planter's son out here for you to see. It doesn't belong to us but I borrowed it because I thought you would be interested. They wrote a different style in those days."