USGS does not have a listing for this name in Hanover County.  I was raised
in Hanover and it's not familiar to me either. It may be the name of a farm
or plantation.  Thorntons lived at a place recently added to the historical
register near Fork Church and, I have heard, also ran a store west of Ashland
at the cross roads near where the fire tower was located at one time. What
was Reuben's era?  That would help. Charles.

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