Pike-Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....Thornton, Emma Neal March 29, 1918
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The Atlanta Constitution, March 30, 1918
Mrs. Eugene H. Thornton, Pioneer Atlanta Woman, Dies on Friday Morning

Mrs. Eugene Hascal Thornton, one of Atlanta’s pioneer and beloved women, died 
yesterday morning at her home, 314 Juniper street, after an illness of three 
months. She is survived by her husband and by three children: Miss Ella May 
Thornton, Messrs. Eugene and Richard Thornton, and by one sister, Mrs. L.M. 
Pittman. Nieces and nephews surviving her are Dr. John Keely, of New York; 
Messrs. Arthur and Robert Keely; Mrs. W.F. Manry and Mrs. James Childes.

Mrs. Thornton was born in Zebulon, Pike county, Georgia, in 1844, and came to 
Atlanta in 1859, when her father, the late John Neal, Atlanta’s pioneer 
citizen, began his constructive citizenship in this city. His home, where the 
Girl’s High school now is, was one of the handsomest residences in the city, 
and during the war became General Sherman’s headquarters.

Mrs. Thornton, together with the leading young women of the city at that time, 
aided signally in that constructive work which the women of Atlanta did then, 
as now, along every line of church work, and that educational, philanthropic 
and social.

The passing of Mrs. Thornton will bring sorrow not only to her contemporaries 
in the Pioneer Woman’s Society of Atlanta, but to every home where the 
influences of her character and friendship have been known or felt.

The funeral services will be conducted from the residence at 3 o’clock this 
afternoon, Rev. Henry Alford Porter officiating.


Additional Comments:
Emma Neal was born 25 Apr 1844 in Pike County Georgia. She was a daughter of 
John Neal and Mary Jane Campbell, a pioneer citizen of Pike County. John and 
Mary Jane were married 7 Dec 1834 in Pike County, Georgia.

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