She is married to Aaron S Thornburg.
They got married on December 13, 1858, she was 18 years old.
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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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