Hopefully there is someone still researching this line who will read this post. I descend through James Thorne born abt. 1785 in North Carolina who married Elisa "Betty" Almond, daughter of Canady Almond. James and Elisa Thorne's daughter, Martha (born 1808 in N.C.) married Yancey Bledsoe in 1823 in Wake county, N.C. - they moved to Tennessee abt. 1830. On the 1840 census, Martha Thorne Bledsoe is listed as head of household and beside her is her father-in-law, Jacob Bledsoe. Yancey must have died before 1840.

Yancey and Martha Thorne Bledsoe had these children: G.W., Lewis, Francis Marion, Elizabeth Jane, Yancey D., Martha, Edna A., W. R., and Samaria. Martha Thorne Bledsoe ?died in Tennessee before 1850 and her children moved to Sumter county, Alabama after that most likely to live near their Thorne relatives - their uncles James, Jesse, Turner, Willis, and J. Canady Thorne.

Interestingly, on the 1850 census, two daughters of Yancey and Martha Thorne Bledsoe were living with the family of John Altman in Sumter county, Alabama. I was not sure why, but maybe now I might present a theory.

John Altman of Sumter county, Alabama was born about 1819 in South Carolina; wife Sarah Jane Hitt; children - William, Sarah J., John, and N. Green. (Green was a popular name among the Almond, Almon, Almann families.)John Altman had a brother named Nathan, also a popular given name among that family. So..perhaps the Bledsoe girls were living with RELATIVES of their maternal grandmother, Elisa Betty Almond. Could the Altmans of South Carolina be related to the Almonds of North Carolina?