Douglas Resident Seventy Years, Former Carrier of Rural Mail.
S.I. (Ike) Thornton, 80, resident of Roseburg for 70 years, died Saturday night following a long period of ill health. Born March 2, 1855, at St. Joseph, Missouri, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Thornton, he was 10 years of age when the family crossed the continent to the Pacific coast in 1865. The wagon train was led by General Duncan, and Ike Thornton crossed the plains astride a Shetland pony, of which he was very proud. The train was attacked by more than 400 Indians in an exciting incident of the passage.
Mr. Thornton spent his entire active life in Douglas county, being engaged in farming in the Oak creek district. For more than 15 years he was mail carrier on the R.F.D. No. 1 out of Roseburg.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. John (Lena) Atterbury, and two sons, Lee Thornton, Lakeview, Ore., druggist, and Clifford Thornton, deputy sheriff at Roseburg.
Mr. Thornton was a member of the Baptist church.
Funeral services are to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel of the Douglas Funeral home, Rev. R.R. Mulholland officiating. Interment will be in the Masonic cemetery.
The News-Review, Roseburg, Oregon, 14 October 1935, page 1
Douglas Resident Seventy Years, Former Carrier of Rural Mail.
S.I. (Ike) Thornton, 80, resident of Roseburg for 70 years, died Saturday night following a long period of ill health. Born March 2, 1855, at St. Joseph, Missouri, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeptha Thornton, he was 10 years of age when the family crossed the continent to the Pacific coast in 1865. The wagon train was led by General Duncan, and Ike Thornton crossed the plains astride a Shetland pony, of which he was very proud. The train was attacked by more than 400 Indians in an exciting incident of the passage.
Mr. Thornton spent his entire active life in Douglas county, being engaged in farming in the Oak creek district. For more than 15 years he was mail carrier on the R.F.D. No. 1 out of Roseburg.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. John (Lena) Atterbury, and two sons, Lee Thornton, Lakeview, Ore., druggist, and Clifford Thornton, deputy sheriff at Roseburg.
Mr. Thornton was a member of the Baptist church.
Funeral services are to be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the chapel of the Douglas Funeral home, Rev. R.R. Mulholland officiating. Interment will be in the Masonic cemetery.
The News-Review, Roseburg, Oregon, 14 October 1935, page 1
Family Members
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Rev William Edward Thornton
1841–1910
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Sally Griffin Thornton Stephens
1842–1887
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Martha Ann Thornton
1844–1864
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Mary Elizabeth Thornton Agee
1847–1920
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Emily Jane Thornton Murray
1849–1931
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Josiah Jeptha Thornton
1851–1941
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Jeremiah Luke "Jerry" Thornton
1853–1939
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Priscilla Cordelia Thornton Kernan
1857–1929
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Permelia Katherine Thornton
1859–1885
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