Editing Amos G. Thornton (section)

=== Final Years ===

In the 1900 census, Amos Thornton was still living in southern Utah with his wife Mary and their 16-year-old son, James. He could not have legally cohabited with both his wives and so we would expect Charity to be living somewhere nearby. The census confirms this: Charity lived several homes away, with her daughter and two grandchildren. Some of Thornton's grown children and their families were also in the neighborhood as was his former associate in the Indian mission and the militia, [[David_W._Tullis|David Tullis]].

Amos Thornton died in Pinto in 1902 at the age of 69. Charity, his Kentucky wife, died in 1908, and Mary, his Lancashire wife, in 1914.