MARGARET GLADYS STERLING THORNTON

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Maggie Gladys Sterling Thornton

February 1972, Madera, CA

Margaret Gladys Sterling Thornton
Margaret Gladys Sterling Thornton
Margaret Gladys Sterling Thornton

Santa Cruz

July 8, 1952

Doss Younger Thornton Sr

and

Margaret Gladys Sterling Thornton

Margaret Gladys Sterling Thornton

and

Mary Maxine Thornton

James Morris Thornton house in background

(Back of picture: " You can see how Morris house looks in the back of us.

See how big your sis is now.)

Margaret Gladys Sterling Thornton

Leonard Charles Thornton

Mary Maxine Thornton and baby

Oct 1955

Margaret Gladys Sterling Thornton 

in front of bike and Thornton home in California

Margaret Gladys Sterling Thornton

with Thornton kids 

in front of bike and Thornton home in California

Motor bike and Thornton home in California

 -Doss Younger and Margaret Gladys Sterling Thornton-

H 1022 Cross

   

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Is this Carl Thomas Thornton

 

Information found by TCT 27 December 2012

US Federal Census 1940

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1940usfedcen&indiv=try&h=70309114

Name: Margaret Thornton
Respondent: Yes
Age: 46
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1894
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Home in 1940: Madera, Madera, California
View Map
Street: Cross Street
House Number: 1022
Inferred Residence in 1935: Madera, Madera, California
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Sheet Number: 25A
Attended School or College: No
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 8th grade
Weeks Worked in 1939: 0
Income: 0
Income Other Sources: No
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Doss Thornton 49
Margaret Thornton 46
Leonard Thornton 19
Willie Thornton 16
Carl Thornton 15
Donnie Thornton 11
Mary Thornton 7

 

U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta)
about Margt G Thornton

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=Margaret+Gladys&gsln=Thornton&msbdy=1894&msbpn__ftp=Georgetown%2c+Williamson%2c+Texas%2c+USA&msbpn=78687&msbpn_PInfo=8-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3249%7c46%7c0%7c3166%7c78687%7c0%7c&msrpn__ftp=California%2c+USA&msrpn=7&msrpn_PInfo=5-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3249%7c7%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c&msfng0=Thomas&msfns0=Sterling&msmng0=Leona&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=uv4&_83004003-n_xcl=m&cp=12&mssng0=Doss+Younger&mssns0=Thornton&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=212682062&db=USDirectories&indiv=1

U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989 (Beta)
about Margt G Thornton
Name: Margt G Thornton
Gender: F (Female)
Residence Year: 1948
Street Address: 022 Cross
Residence Place: Merced; Madera; Los Banos, California
Spouse: Doss Y Thornton
Publication Title: Merced-Madera-Los Banos City Directory

http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=2469&iid=3208486&fn=Margt+G&ln=Thornton&st=r&ssrc=&pid=212682062

 

Also, 1941

Also, 1938

California, Death Index, 1940-1997
about Margaret G Thornton

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California, Death Index, 1940-1997
about Margaret G Thornton
Name: Margaret G Thornton
Social Security #: 565542013
Gender: Female
Birth Date: 29 Mar 1894
Birth Place: Texas
Death Date: 8 Feb 1976
Death Place: Madera

Source Citation: Place: Madera; Date: 8 Feb 1976; Social Security: 565542013.

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Original data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

 

Social Security Death Index
about Margaret Thornton

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&msT=1&gss=angs-g&gsfn=Margaret+Gladys&gsln=Thornton&msbdy=1894&msbpn__ftp=Georgetown%2c+Williamson%2c+Texas%2c+USA&msbpn=78687&msbpn_PInfo=8-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3249%7c46%7c0%7c3166%7c78687%7c0%7c&msrpn__ftp=California%2c+USA&msrpn=7&msrpn_PInfo=5-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3249%7c7%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c&msfng0=Thomas&msfns0=Sterling&msmng0=Leona&cpxt=0&catBucket=rstp&uidh=uv4&_83004003-n_xcl=m&cp=12&mssng0=Doss+Younger&mssns0=Thornton&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=62476992&recoff=12+13&db=ssdi&indiv=1

Social Security Death Index
about Margaret Thornton
Name: Margaret Thornton
SSN: 565-54-2013
Last Residence: 93637 Madera, Madera, California, United States of America
Born: 16 Mar 1894Note different day of month; everything else the same.
Died: Feb 1976
State (Year) SSN issued: California (1957)

Source Citation: Number: 565-54-2013; Issue State: California; Issue Date: 1957.

Source Information:

Ancestry.com. Social Security Death Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.
Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.

   

 

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/H6YQ-86Z

United States Census, 1930 for Maggie G Thornton

Name: Maggie G Thornton
Event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Precinct 8, Live Oak, Texas
Gender: Female
Age: 34
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Birthplace: Texas
Estimated Birth Year: 1896
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Wife
Father's Birthplace: Texas
Mother's Birthplace: Texas
Enumeration District Number: 0009
Family Number: 104
Sheet Number and Letter: 6A
Line Number: 20
NARA Publication: T626, roll 2370
Film Number: 2342104
Digital Folder Number: 4547349
Image Number: 01180
Household Gender Age
Spouse Doss Y Thornton M 37
Maggie G Thornton F 34
Child Morris J Thornton M 17
Child Doss Y Thornton M 13
Child Ira N Thornton M 11
Child Leonard C Thornton M 8
Child Willie C Thornton M 6
Child Carl T Thornton M 4
Child Danny C Thornton M 1
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/H6YQ-86Z

   
   

 

 
 

Margaret Gladys "Maggie" Sterling Thornton

Birth: Mar. 29, 1894
Georgetown, Texas, USA
Death: Feb. 8, 1976
Madera County
California, USA


Family links:
Children:
Willie Clarence Thornton (1923 - 2002)*

Spouse:
Doss Younger Thornton (1890 - 1972)

*Point here for explanation
Burial:
Arbor Vitae Cemetery
Madera
Madera County
California, USA
Plot: Blk 1 Row 21

Created by: Rose
Record added: May 10, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 26737004

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26737004

 

Arbor Vitae Cemetery

1301 Roberts Ave
Madera
Madera County
California USA
Postal Code: 93637-3000
Phone: (559) 674-8826

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSiman=1&GScid=7841&GSfn=&GSln=Thornton

Map of Arbor Vitae Cemetery 01 03 2011

Interactive map and GPS data:
GPS Coordinates: Latitude: 36.96610, Longitude: -120.07170

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=26736938&CRid=7841&

 

Information regarding Georgetown, Texas

Georgetown, Texas
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown,_Texas

Georgetown is a city and also the county seat of Williamson County, Texas, United States[3] with a population of 47,400 at the 2010 census. Southwestern University, founded in 1840, is the oldest university in Texas and is located in Georgetown, about 1/2 mile east of the historic square. Sun City Texas (formerly called Sun City Georgetown) is a large retirement-oriented and age restricted development which constitutes more than one-third of the population of Georgetown.

Georgetown has a notable range of Victorian commercial and residential architecture. In 1976 a local historic ordinance was passed to recognize and protect the significance of the historic central business district and in 1977 the Williamson County Courthouse Historic District, containing some 46 contributing structures, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[4]

Geographically, Georgetown lies across the Balcones Escarpment,[5] a fault line that divides Georgetown into areas roughly east of Interstate 35 in the Blackland Prairie which is flat farmland characterized by having black, fertile soils, where cotton is the primary crop; and the west side of the Escarpment which consists of hilly, karst-like terrain pocketed with vugular limestone openings that allow water to percolate through the limestone and into the Edwards Aquifer below. The area typically has little topsoil and has higher elevations, and is considered part of the Texas Hill Country. [6]

History

Prehistoric era

Georgetown has been the site of human habitation since at least 9,000 B.C., and possibly considerably before that. The earliest known inhabitants of the county, during the late Pleistocene (Ice Age), can be linked to the Clovis culture, a Paleo-Indian culture that first appeared around 9200 B.C., and possibly as old as 11,500 B.C.[10] at the end of the last glacial period, and characterized by the manufacture of the distinctive "Clovis points." One of the most important discoveries in recent times is that of the ancient skeletal remains dubbed "The Leanderthal Lady" because of its age and proximity to Leander, Texas.[11] The site is immediately southwest of Georgetown and was discovered by accident by Texas Department of Transportation workers while drilling core samples for a new highway. The site has been extensively studied for many years and samples carbon date to the Pleistocene period at approximately 10,500 years ago (8500 BC). Archeological dig sites showing a much greater evidence of Archaic Period inhabitants has been recovered from burned rock middens at several sites along the San Gabriel that are now inundated by Granger Lake, and at the confluence of the North and South San Gabriel Rivers in Georgetown.[12]

Early history

The earliest known historical occupants of the county, the Tonkawas, were a flint-working, hunting people who followed buffalo on foot and periodically set fire to the prairie to aid them in their hunts. During the eighteenth century they made the transition to a horse culture and used firearms to a limited extent. There also appear to have been small numbers of Kiowa, Yojuane, Tawakoni, and Mayeye Indians living in the county at the time of the earliest Anglo settlements.[13] Even after most native Americans were crowded out by white settlement, the Comanches continued to raid settlements in the county until the 1860s.

Example of a Clovis fluted 

blade that is 11,000 years old.

This 1900-1910 "patern book" house was moved 

to Georgetown from Round Rock, Texas in 2006 

and is now located in Georgetown, Texas 

overlooking the South San Gabriel River

 

Modern history

Georgetown was named for George Washington Glasscock who donated the land for the new town. Early American and Swedish pioneers were attracted to the area's abundance of timber and good, clear water. In addition, the land was inexpensive and extremely fertile. Georgetown, Texas is the county seat of Williamson County, which was formed on March 13, 1848 after the early settlers petitioned the State Legislature to create it out of Milam County. The county was originally to have been named San Gabriel County, but was instead named after Robert McAlpin Williamson (aka Three-Legged Willie), a Texas statesman and judge at the time.[14]

Georgetown was an agrarian community for most of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The [Shawnee Trail]], a cattle trail that led from Texas to the rail centers in Kansas and Missouri, crossed through the heart of Georgetown. The establishment of Southwestern University in 1873 and construction of a railroad in 1878 contributed to the town's growth and importance. A stable economy developed, based largely on agricultural activity. Cotton was the dominant crop in the area between the 1880s and the 1920s. Williamson County was the top producer of cotton in the State of Texas.[15]

Primarily to transport cattle and bales of cotton, at one time Georgetown was served by two national railroads, the International-Great Northern Railroad, which eventually was merged into the Missouri Pacific, and the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad. The regional Georgetown and Granger Railroad (GGR) was completed to Austin in 1904. Currently, Georgetown is served by the appropriately named Georgetown Railroad, a 'short line' railroad that uses portions of the former M-K-T and the I-GN to connect with the Union Pacific Railroad at Round Rock and at Granger.

Extensive damage and loss of life throughout the county from a 1921 flood led Georgetown to seek flood control. A low pressure system from a hurricane settled in over Williamson County and brought more than 23 inches of rain in Taylor and 18 plus inches of rain in Georgetown. An estimated 156 persons perished in the flood, many of them farm laborers .[16] The flood and its horrific destruction culminated in the building of a dam on the north fork of the San Gabriel River to create and impound Lake Georgetown, which opened officially on October 5, 1979.[6] Both Georgetown and Round Rock own the water rights to Lake Georgetown for municipal water use.

Population growth and industrial expansion continued modestly in the twentieth century until about 1960 when residential, commercial, and industrial development, due to major growth and urban expansion of nearby Austin, greatly accelerated. In 2008, Fortune Small Business Magazine named Georgetown the No. 2 best city in the nation to "live and launch" a new business.

External links

PICTORIAL HISTORY OF GEORGETOWN

Georgetown Heritage Society

 

Georgetown History

http://mainstreet.georgetown.org/georgetown-history/

Georgetown, located in Williamson County, was founded in 1848 on land donated by Thomas B. Huling and George Washington Glasscock, Sr., for whom the town was named. Though the young town quickly established itself as a center for government and commerce, it is best characterized during these early years as a “frontier town of the most common type–a mean looking, tough town composed mainly of shacks and log cabins.”

By 1880 things had begun to change. A limestone courthouse stood on the square, early settlers and merchants had begun to prosper, Southwestern University, the state’s oldest college, had located on the eastern edge of town (1873), and the railroad had arrived in Georgetown (1878). It was a time of great promise for the citizens of Georgetown.

Between the years 1880 and 1910 Georgetown experienced a Golden Age during which the town was alive with the activities of physical expansion and economic development. Though that robust ear ended in the early 20th century, it left a permanent mark on the city in the wealth of Victorian architecture which abounds in downtown Georgetown today.

The earliest buildings in Georgetown were probably log cabins and crude shacks. When milled lumber became available, it was used to construct simple wood-frame structures which at one time were evidenced on all four sides of the square. The new-found prosperity of the late 19th century and advent of the railroad expanded the horizons of building in downtown Georgetown.

Wood was eliminated as a building material for more permanent masonry. Limestone was quarried near Georgetown as early as the 1860s and became the preferred material in the late 1800s as evidenced by the quantity of limestone found in downtown Georgetown today. Limestone was used almost universally on the party walls and rear facades, while occasionally more expensive brick was imported for the important storefront. Other prominent materials in turn-of-the-century Georgetown were cast iron and pressed metal, imported by rail from manufacturing centers and applied to the storefronts.

One company in particular, Mesker Brothers of St. Louis, appears to have been an important source in Georgetown. Bernard and Frank Mesker began their catalog marketing technique and manufacture of highly decorative sheet metal storefronts in 1884 and sold over 5,000 storefronts nationwide within the next 23 years. While Georgetown boasts a few outstanding examples of pressed metal storefront design, virtually every structure includes some amount of metal detailing, particularly in the cornice area.

 
Kimbro and Friends in Front of Blacksmith Shop. Georgetown, Texas ca 1890's

http://www.williamson-county-historical-commission.org/GEORGETOWN_TEXAS/1059.jpg

Public Square, Georgetown, Texas

http://www.williamson-county-historical-commission.org/GEORGETOWN_TEXAS/9094.jpg

Public Square, Georgetown, Texas

http://www.williamson-county-historical-commission.org/GEORGETOWN_TEXAS/georgetown_slice_2.jpg

The original St. Johns United Methodist Church and cemetery of Georgetown in 1900. The congregation moved to 311 E. University Ave in Georgetown.

http://www.williamson-county-historical-commission.org/GEORGETOWN_TEXAS/5001.jpg

http://www.williamson-county-historical-commission.org/GEORGETOWN_TEXAS/Old_Georgetown_Cemetery_Georgetown_Williamson_County_Texas.html

Old Georgetown Cemetery
Old Black Cemetery
Blue Hole Cemetery
Williamson County, Georgetown, Texas


click on thumbnail image for an enlarged view

Blue Hole Park Rd at Scenic Dr near
Martin Luther King St (2nd St.) intersection



click on thumbnail image for an enlarged view

History Marker


Marker text

This site on the south bank of the South San Gabriel River , a portion of the land donated by George W. Glasscock in 1848 for the county seat of Williamson County , was used as a burial plot from 1840 to 1902. Many pioneer citizens lie buried here – Many names unknown and graves unmarked.

Restoration of “The Old Georgetown Cemetery” was begun in 1968 by the Georgetown Historical Survey Committee with the co-operation of the interested people who “Did Not Forget”.

here's a MP3 audio file (oral history) on the Old Georgetown Cemetery
by one of Georgetown's own; JC Johnson
he is one of Georgetown's historians


aerial view map

GPS Coordinates
Latitude 30.64204 - Longitude -97.68191
UTM 14 R - Easting: 626306 - Northing: 3390673

interment listing
also see

View interment list by John Christeson on findagrave.com

view more Historical Cemeteries in Georgetown
view more Historical Cemeteries in Williamson County

http://www.williamson-county-historical-commission.org/GEORGETOWN_TEXAS/Georgetown_Texas_Williamson_County.htm

Barnes Cemetery
Berry's Creek

Berry Springs Cemetery
Citizens Memorial Garden

Collins-Thopson, Old Collins
Connell Family
Evangelical Free
Georgetown IOOF
Georgetown Memorial

Georgetown, Old and Old Black
George S.C. Harper Family
Green Family

Guadalupe also known as Georgetown Catholic
Harper Price Cemetery
Jenkins
Keating relocated to the Andice Cemetery

Lord also Fischer Lord or Fish
Millard, Millary-Salyer Cemetery
Our Lady of the Rosary
Pennington Family

Patrick Cemetery
Presbyterian
Rocky Hollow - Little Arkansas Bullion

Sedwick
St. John's
Sullivan Family
Union Hill
Whiteley
Williamson County Pauper
also known as Pauper Poor Farm, Middleton

   
 
 

 

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