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Samuel Isaac “Ike” Thornton

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Samuel Isaac “Ike” Thornton

Birth
Saint Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri, USA
Death
13 Oct 1935 (aged 80)
Douglas County, Oregon, USA
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Roseburg, Douglas County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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S. I. THORNTON, 80, CLAIMED BY DEATH
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
S. I. THORNTON, 80, CLAIMED BY DEATH
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

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