

  <p>Thornton, Norman Townsend</p>
  <p>Passed: 1949-01-28</p>
  <p>Age: 72</p>


  <p>Source: Jackson Herald</p>

  <p>Death Notice: </p>

  <p>Obituary Date: 1949-02-04</p>
  <p>Information:                 Norman Townsend Thornton, 72 year old farmer of Ripley Road, died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage last Friday afternoon at his home, and the funeral service was held at Mt. Olive (Morgan UB) on Monday with Rev. Wilbur Baxter of Tazewell, Va. Officiating and the burial was in the Lone Oak Cemetery at Pt. Pleasant.  Mr. Thornton was a son of Hiram and Margaret Morgan Thornton and was married to Ora Parsons on Dec. 22/23, 1907.  He was born at Leon on May 26, 1876, died at the Holzer Hospital at Pt. Pleasant, Jan. 28, 1949.  Survivors include the widow, one son, Claude Thornton of Leon; a daughter, Fay Barnett of Pt. Pleasant; three grandsons, Paul Lee and Charles Horton Thornton of Leon, and Keith Roger Barnett of Pt. Pleasant; two brothers, William Thornton of Pittsburgh and Horton Thornton of Leon, and the following sisters, Emma Wolfe of Cottageville, Nan Riffle of Bellaire, Ohio, Della Weigand of Letart, Ella Smith of Mt. Alto, and Meta/Neta Hart of Parkersburg.  His mother, father, two sisters and one brother preceded him in death.  (Betty Kessel McIntyre obit collection)</p>


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