Thornton Family Genealogy

    Olmsted, Corabel Thornton

Birth:     4 Mar 1879, Edinburg, Johnson? Co., IN
Death:     17 Sep 1957

Father:    Olmsted, Joseph Staples (*1846/7/7 KY +1903 IN)
Mother:    Strode, Martha Olmsted (*KY)

Married(1) Thornton, Charles Arthur (*1871 Green Twp., Summit Co., OH +1940 Akron, Summit Co., OH)
           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)

Married(2) Waugh, WIllam B. ()
           , Sourced



Censuses: 

 1910
with Charles Arthur Thornton
Occ no
reads & writes
 1930
Mis-written as "Rosabel" [sic]
Not with Charles Arthur Thornton, but all children
Occ no
reads & writes
no radio

Notes: 

Founded Second Presbyterian Church, Akron, Summit Co., OH
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 death as 22 Sep.
BESSIE THORNTON, genealogy pages, p. unnumbered has death as 22 Feb.

"Gr. Corabel had the following siblings: Ada & Opal, Fred
and Frank, Martha & Joe.  Opal burned to death in infancy."
SOURCE: OLIVE SMITH, interview by OKT, letter to TLT, 15 Aug 1987
This matches the set in Corabel's family here, but omits B[ue]rnie.
Named "Cora" in Rebecca Ellerbrook.