This Presley Wren Thornton (II) is the son of Thomas Jefferson Thornton (elder brother of Presley Wren Thornton, Sr.) and Charlotte May Ray. There is much documentation of this. Charlotte died giving birth to Presley (II). See the Presley listed with his father & third wife, Elizabeth Roberson, on the 1850 & 1860 US Federal Census, Fayette Co., AL.
