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Personal data Aaron S Thornburg 

• He was born on December 16, 1836 in Indiana, Verenigde Staten.Source 1
• A child of Absolom Thornburg and Tacy Hague
• This information was last updated on May 24, 2014.

Household of Aaron S Thornburg

He is married to Mercy Gould.

They got married on December 13, 1858, he was 21 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Benjamin Thornburg  
2. Lula Thornburg  
3. Cora Thornburg  
4. Dennis Thornburg  
5. Guy Thornburg  
6. Blanche Thornburg  
7. Jessie Thornburg  
8. Pearl Thornburg  
9. Roy Thornburg  

Notes about Aaron S Thornburg

The following is from the Mitchell County, Iowa History, 1883, Page 350:

"Aaron S. Thornburg came from Allamakee Co., Iowa, in 1856 to aid David E. Cutler build a mill, after which he was engaged in logging and lime burning until 1868, when he purchased land on section 17, and at once engaged in farming, at the same time doing some mason work. He is the son of Absalom Thornburg, and was born in Virginia, December 16, 1836. His mother died when he was but eleven years old. Four years after the death of his mother, his father removed to Iowa. Aaron was married to Miss M. A. Gould, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Gould, who were among the first to settle in Mitchell County. They have nine children: Benjamin, Lula, Cora, Dennis, Guy, Blanche, Jessie, Pearl, and Roy."

Partial quote from a newspaper clipping, no date, no headline, no name of the paper: "Another old settler is Aaron Thornburg, 91 years, living with his daughter, Mrs. Carl Larson (1927)."

From the same source as above, page 354: "Edward M. Thornburg purchased his farm on section 17 in 1866. He was born in Wayne County, Indiana, January 27, 1831. His parents moved to LaPorte, Indiana when he was four years old, and there Edward grew to manhood. In 1851, his parents removed to Winneshiek County, Iowa. In 1853, he came to Mitchell county and assisted in building the dam at Cutler's Mill across Rock Creek. He was married in Winnesheik in 1855 to Jennie Brown of Richland, Ohio. In 1861, he came to Mitchell county and in 1866 bought and located on the farm where he now lives. They are parents of three children--William, Lettie, and Shirley."

Also from the same source, no page quoted: "The Cutlers also came from LaPorte, Indiana, and the mill was built in 1856 and used in 1857. . . . Among the settlers of 1856 were. . . . and Aaron S. Thornburg who was constable in 1882. . . . Among the settlers of a latter date were. . . Edward M. Thornburg."

Same source, no page or other reference: "John B. Lewis, son of John and Mary Lewis, born Lincoln township, Mitchell County, Iowa on December 31, 1858--married in Floyd County, Iowa March 3, 1880, Lettie, daughter of Edward and Lucinda Thornburg. Mrs Lewis was born in Franklin County, Iowa. They have one son--Charles Mont."

The following is copied from the Mitchell County, Iowa Newspaper of Thursday February 22, 1912:

"MRS. AARON S. THORNBURG Born July 9, 1840, Died February 16, 1912. Death entered the home of one of the pioneer families of Mitchell Co. last Friday night and called Mrs. A. S. Thornburg of Orchard. The funeral services were held at the home Sunday afternoon and were conducted by Rev. Court of Osage. There was a large gathering of the friends and neighbors present, and every evidence manifested of the esteem in which she was heldby those who knew her for so many years, and of the deep sympathy felt for the bereaved husband and family. All of the children were present excet two who are living on the Pacific coast.

Mrs. Thornburg had been in poor health for about two years. The immediate cause of her death was a stroke of paralysis Wednesday evening from which she lapsed into unconsciousness and passed away in peaceful sleep. Mrs. Thornburg, whose maiden name was Mercy Gould, was born in Alexandra Bay, New York, July 9, 1840. She spent her girlhood on one of the beautiful Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence river. She came west with her parents in 1855 and located on a farm in Mitchell county near a little settlement on the Cedar river called Watertown. Here she was married, Decemberr 13, 1858, to A. S. Thornburg who had also pioneered to the new state from the east. Shortly after their marriage they moved onto a farm just east of Orchard where she spent the remainder of her life.

Mr. and Mrs. Thornburg were the parents of nine children and grandparents of fourteen children. During a period of over fifty-three years with this large family, of two generations, this is the first death that has occurred.

Mrs. Thornburg was a quiet and unostentatious woman, who for these more than fifty years of married life did her full measure of faithful duty as a wife and mother. She was one of those sweet and even tempered souls, who found her greatest hapiness in her husband and children, who day by day and year by year gladly welcomed each day's work and duty as an opportunity for service for those she loved.

Truly her husband will rejoice in her memory and the children shall call her blessed."

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