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John Thurston
(1812-1836)
The son of Thomas Whiting and Mary Dorsey Thurston, John M. Thurston was probably born Mountjoy Luckett Thurston, but he used the first name of a baby brother who had died in 1811. Thurston came to Texas from Kentucky though he had been born in Pennsylvania. In Texas he was appointed as a second lieutenant in The Texas Calvary in December of 1835.
On January 17, 1836, he delivered a thirty-six pound keg of rifle powder to Capt. Philip Dimitt. The voucher he received for it was signed over to T. D. Hendrick. Thurston came to the Alamo in Capt. Forsyth’s command.