Elbert County GaArchives Deaths.....Thornton, Daniel Webster April 30, 1925 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Chandler Eavenson http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007294 January 14, 2008, 2:57 pm Name: Thornton, Daniel Webster Date Of Death: April 30, 1925 Time: Place Of Death: Elbert Co.,, GA Residence: Elberton, GA Gender: Male Race: W Age: 71 Marital Status: Married Spouse: Thornton, Ella Date Of Birth: Unavailable Place Of Birth: Elbert Co., GA Mother's Name: Almand, not shown Mother's Birthplace: Elbert Co., GA Father's Name: Thornton, William Father's Birthplace: Elbert Co., GA Cause Of Death: Myocarditis and paralysis Hospital: Unavailable SS Number: Unavailable Occupation: Farmer Funeral Home: M. E. Maxwell and Co. Doctor: J. E. Johnson Coroner: Unavailable Informant: Thomas M. Maxwell, Elberton, GA Date Of Burial: May 1, 1925 Place Of Burial: Doves Creek Baptist Church cem. Date Recorded: May 1, 1925 Source Of Record: Online GA Death certificates Certificate No.: 13867 Additional Comments: Elbert Co. marriage records show William T. Thornton and Lucinda A. Almand were married on 4 Nov 1847.Doves Ck.Cem.book shows Ella M. Thornton (1861-1938), wife of D.W. and daughter of Asa and Donnie Almond Thornton. Elbert Co. marriage records show Asa C. Thornton and Dorcas M. Allmand married on 1 Dec 1857. The book "Eavenson-Strickland and Allied Families" by Sexta E. Strickland shows that William Thornton was the son of John Thornton (son of Benjamin Thornton, Sr.) and Frances Adams (dau. of William Adams and Catherine Mansfield), and that Asa C. Thornton was the son of Rev. Benjamin Thornton, Jr. The 1860 Elbert Co. census shows D. W. Thornton, male age 6, in the household of W. T. Thornton and wife L.A.Thornton. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/elbert/vitals/deaths/thornton324gdt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb