OBIT: Hilton THORNLEY, 1949, formerly of Somerset County, PA

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HILTON THORNLEY

  Hilton Thornley, 81, former resident of Meyersdale, died at the Cannonsburg 
General Hospital, Cannonsburg, Pa.  He had been visiting his son-in-law and 
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Dietrick of Morganza where he had been ill for a 
month.  Suffering a relapse on Friday he was taken to the hospital.
  He was born in England on May 16, 1868, a son of Charles and Nancy Thornley.
  For 50 years he was associated with the Consolidation Coal Company, and while 
living in Meyersdale was superintendent of Elk Lick No. 1 mine of that company 
at Shaw Mines.
  He was a member of Cromwell Lodge F. and A.M., Rockhill Furnace, Pa., and a 
member of I.O.O.M. of Huntington County.  His wife, Elizabeth Mathews Thornley 
died in Meyersdale in 1921.
  He is survived by two sons, William H. Thornley of Connellsville and Robert L. 
Thornley of Youngstown, O., and by one daughter, Mrs. Dietrick, and by two 
grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
  The body was brought to the Price Funeral Home in Meyersdale where friends 
were received and the funeral service was held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30, the 
Rev. L. A. McKinley officiating.  Burial was made in Union Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, November 3, 1949