__ | __|__ | __| | | | | __ | | | | |__|__ | __| | | | | __ | | | | | __|__ | | | | |__| | | | | __ | | | | |__|__ | _William J. Thornley _| | (.... - 1924) | | | __ | | | | | __|__ | | | | | __| | | | | | | | | __ | | | | | | | | |__|__ | | | | |__| | | | | __ | | | | | __|__ | | | | |__| | | | | __ | | | | |__|__ | | |--William James Thornley | (1898 - 1980) | __ | | | __|__ | | | __| | | | | | | __ | | | | | | |__|__ | | | __| | | | | | | __ | | | | | | | __|__ | | | | | | |__| | | | | | | __ | | | | | | |__|__ | | |_Ada B. Shippard _____| | | __ | | | __|__ | | | __| | | | | | | __ | | | | | | |__|__ | | |__| | | __ | | | __|__ | | |__| | | __ | | |__|__
!SOURCE: Email from Beth Hurd (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 7 May 2002. Cites headstones photographed during a visit to the cemetery. Gives birth 1899.
!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 16 Jan 2005. Cites the Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2001:
William J. Thornley {57950} died 29 March 1980 in Hartford, Hartford, CT age 81 Years. He was born in VA on 19 October 1898. (State File #05899)
!SOURCE: Email from Beth Hurd to Weldon Whipple, 9 May 2005. Cites the bride index in the Woonsocket (RI) Town Hall: "book 6, page 240 October 11, 1924: William James Thornley, b. Oct. 18, 1899, res. 3 Belmont Street, Lowell, MA, age 24, white, paymaster, b. Virginia, parents b. RI/Eng, William J. & Ada B. (Shippard) Thornley, father's occ: deceased, 1st marriage; married by Ed Hilton Post, Methodist clergyman to Grace Lapham Whipple, b. Nov. 15, 1898, res. 95 Coe Street, 25, occ: "at home"; father's occ: janitor; b. Providence, RI, parents born RI/RI, Rupert L. & Ellen W. (Webster) Whipple, 1st marriage."
RIN 57950. Quick link to this page: https://genweb.whipple.org/57950
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