Thornton Family Genealogy

    Ritter, Phoebe C. Thornton

Birth:     3 Aug 1836, Union Twp., Snyder Co., PA
Death:     15 Feb 1928, Akron, Summit Co., OH

Father:    Ritter, John (*Germany)
Mother:    Ritzamon, Elizabeth Ritter (*1843 Germany)

Married    Thornton, Levi (*1837 Green Twp., Summit Co., OH +1905 Akron, Summit Co., OH)
           18 Nov 1860, Sourced
Children:
    1. Thornton, William Henry (*1862 OH +1928)
    2. Thornton, Cora E. (*1864 +1950)
    3. Thornton, Ida Jane (*1867 +1944)
    4. Thornton, Charles Arthur (*1871 Green Twp., Summit Co., OH +1940 Akron, Summit Co., OH)
    5. Thornton, Nellie (*1873 +1882)
    6. Thornton, Bertha ()



Censuses: 

 1910
MAY have John c. 1840, presumed brother
DOES have Edward, c. 1873, Frank c. 1883
 1920
Soundex Roll 431
Roll 1439 Vol 191 ED 182 Sh 14 L 42
83
With boarder, Mattie Quigley age 47
Owned a a house a few ddors down:
Wm H, retired, wife Carrie, son Dwight age 24 laborer rubber co.

Notes: 

BESSIE THORNTON, genealogy pages, p. 266.1-4 have birth in 1837 and
death as 16 Feb.


Texts: 

AKRON WOMAN, 92, IS
SUMMONED BY DEATH
----
Rites Arranged For Mrs.
Phoebe C. Thornton, Long
Resident Of City
----
Death of Mrs. Phoebe C. Thornton,
92, of 1475 S. Main st., marked the
passing of one of Summit county's
oldest native residents.

Mrs. Thornton had seen Akron
grow from a small village to one of
the nation's industrial centers and
the farm on which the home where
she died, stood, sub-divided and be-
come a populous residential center.
Her parents came to Ohio from
Pennsylvania in a covered wagon
when Akron was but five years old.
They settled on a farm in Springfield
twp., one mile south of Krumroy, and
it was there that Mrs. Thornton was
born.

Husband Dies In 1905

On Nov. 18, 1860, she was married
to Levi Thornton, who died in 1905,
and they moved to a 62-acre farm
near which the late home stood.
Only farm houses could be found
south of South st., at that time.  Her
children recall she made tallow can-
dles, the only illumination available
at that time.

Thornton st. is named after the
family, the children said, and the
farm is part of what is now known as
Firestone Park and Thornton Heights
addition.

Leaves Four Children

Mrs. Thornton leaves four children,
W.H. Thornton, 1445 S. Main st.,
Mrs James T. Wellock, 1475 S. Main
st., Mrs. William Neal, 22 W. Long st.,
and Charles Thornton, 1495 Hite av.,
10 grandchildren, seven great-grand-
children, and one great-great-grand-
child.

Funeral services will be held at the
home Saturday afternoon at 1:45
o'clock and at St. Paul's Lutheran
church at 2 o'clock.  Rev. John O.
Yoder will officiate.  Burial will be
in Mt. Hope cemetery.
SOURCE: Xeroxed newspaper article (perhaps in Bessie's records, certainly via
OKT), on same page as Levi Thornton's obituary