Allen County IN Archives Obituaries.....Tilton, Sophia Jane (Shorey) June 1, 1919
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Danville [Illinois] Commecial News, 2 June 1919
Mrs. Sophia Tilton Dies of Pneumonia
Mrs. Sophia Jane Tilton, widow of Josiah Tilton, one of the early locomotive 
engineers on the Wabash Railway, mother of the late Edgar Josiah Tilton, a 
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway engineer and grandmother of Leroy Tilton, a 
passenger engineer on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway, died at Lakeview 
Hospital Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Pneumonia was given as the cause of her death, but a broken arm received on 
Easter Sunday, April 20, when she became dizzy on the back porch of the home of 
Mrs. Sarah Tilton, 929 North Hazel Street, and fell off, was the contributing 
cause of it. Mrs. Tilton was in her ninety-second year although she did not 
appear to be one over 65.
She was born in Maine, the daughter of Joseph Shorey and Sophia Jane Shorey, 
and came west when she was a young girl. The Shoreys were prominent in the 
early history of the Wabash Railroad and there are several of the descendents 
still in the service. Mrs. Tilton located at Fort Wayne and resided there until 
two years ago. She was very active all her life and refused to leave her garden 
and her fruit trees until after she was 89. Then she came to Danville to live 
with her daughter-in-law. She enjoyed unusual good health up to the time of her 
accident. She had an attack of dizziness and could offer no explanation of her 
fall.
Mrs. Tilton had outlived all of her generation of relatives and her children. 
There are five grandchildren, Olive, Clara, Frank, Edgar and LeRoy Tilton. 
Funeral services were held at the Tilton residence at 11 o’clock yesterday 
forenoon conducted by Rev. Henry B. Wooding, pastor of the Imanuel Presbyterian 
Church. At ( ) o’clock the funeral party took the Wabash passenger train to 
Fort Wayne, where further services were to be held later. The interment was 
beside the body of the husband.


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