Thornton Family Genealogy

    Thornton, Charles Arthur

Birth:     10 Jan 1871, Green Twp., Summit Co., OH
Death:     9 Mar 1940, Akron, Summit Co., OH

Father:    Thornton, Levi (*1837 Green Twp., Summit Co., OH +1905 Akron, Summit Co., OH)
Mother:    Ritter, Phoebe C. Thornton (*1836 Union Twp., Snyder Co., PA +1928 Akron, Summit Co., OH)

Married    Olmsted, Corabel Thornton (*1879 Edinburg, Johnson? Co., IN +1957)
           23 Dec 1903, Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN, Sourced, Divorced
Children:
    1. Thornton, Olive Lucille Smith (*1908 S Main St., Coventry Twp., Summit Co., OH +2005 Akron, Summit Co., OH)
    2. Thornton, Clyde Monroe (*1910 944 W. Exchange Street, Akron, Summit Co., OH +1990 Barberton Citizens Hospital, Akron, Summit Co., OH)
    3. Thornton, Bessie Worth Offutt (*1913 Stow, Summit Co., OH +2007 Copley Health Center, Copley, Summit Co., OH)
    4. Thornton, Marie Winifred Lewis Hunt (*1915 Stow, Summit Co., OH +1996 Akron, Summit Co., OH)
    5. Thornton, Clark Olmsted (*1917 Ghent Road (res.), Stow, Summit Co., OH +2004 Northwood Lake (res.), Northport, Tuscaloosa Co., AL)


Notes: 

Interred Mt. Hope Cemetery, South Main Street, Akron, Summit Co., OH
SOURCE: STEESE Appendix, annotation by OKT
BESSIE THORNTON, genealogy pages, p. 266.1-4 has birth as Jan 20


Texts: 

Death Certificate

1. Place of death: Summit County Registration District No.: 1224
Primary Registration District No.: 8495  Registered No.: 36
Fair Oaks Villa St.
City of: Cuyahoga Falls
2. Full name: Thornton, Mr. Charles A.
(a) Residence (usual place of abode): Congress Hotel, Akron, Ohio

3. Sex: Male 4. Color or Race: White 5. Single, Married, Widowed or Divorced: divorced
5a. Husband or Wife of: Corabel
6. Date of Birth: Jan 10, 1871
7. Age years: 69  Months: 1  Days: 28

8. Trade: Real Estate
9. Industry: & Attorney
10. Date deceased last worked: 10 [years ago?]
11. Total time (years) spent in this occupation:

12  Birthplace: Green Twp  State: Ohio
13. Father Name: Levi Thornton
14. Father Birthplace: Not known
15. Mother Name: Phoebe C. Ritter
16. Birthplace: Not known

17. Informant: Clyde M. Thornton Address: 629 W. Market St.
18. Burial Place: Mt. Hope  Date: March 11  19: 40
19. Funeral firm: The Billow Co.
19a. Buried by: A.L. Billow  Lic No.: 320
Address: 118 Ash St. Akron Ohio
19b. Embalmer: H.B. Cox  Lic No.: 3002A
20. Filed: 3/10 19: 40  Registrar: H.O. Bolich

21. Date of Death: Mar 9  19: 40
22. I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
Feb 26, 19: 40, to: March 9, 19: 40
I last saw h: im alive on: March 8, 19: 40, death is said
to have occurred on the date stated above at: 1 A:m

The PRINCIPAL CAUSE OF DEATH and related causes of importance
in order of onset were as follows:
General Artereosclerosis Date of onset: 1929
Hypostatic Pneumonia Date of onset: 3/6/40
CONTRIBUTORY CAUSES
None
Name of operation: None
What test confirmed diagnosis?: Clinic Was there an autopsy? No

23. Accident, suicide, or homicide?: No
24. Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
No

(Signed) J.W. Kinley
Date: 3/9 19: 40 Address: Fair Oaks Villa
Cuyahoga Falls, O

[Photostat, signature Martha D. Nelson
Notary stamp "Summit County Health Dept., Akron, Ohio"]
SOURCE: State of Ohio Department of Health Certificate of Death


Censuses: 

 1900
Soundex roll 358, Census roll 1233, sheet 11a
 1910
Miracode t1272, OH roll 376 p. 424 Vol 168 ED139 VN217
Occ real estate, self-employed
reads & writes
ADDR 1030 W. Exchange Street
rented home from Sarah Bennagi (sp?)
 1920
SHOULD BE ON Soundex roll 430, but is not
Roll 1438, Vol 190, ED 152 Sheet 9, Summit Supervisor District 14