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Personal data Lamont Erwin Thornburg 

• He was born on April 23, 1858 in Iowa, Verenigde Staten.Source 1
• He died on October 22, 1943 in Stanislaus Co., California, Verenigde Staten, he was 85 years old.Source 1
• A child of William Henry Harrison Thornburg and Oresta Sally Curtis
• This information was last updated on May 24, 2014.

Household of Lamont Erwin Thornburg

He is married to Hannah M Crispin.

They got married on February 5, 1882 at California, Verenigde Staten, he was 23 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Ivy A Thornburg  1882-1973
2. Raymond Harrison Thornburg  1888-1967
3. Delwin Crispin Thornburg  1889-1951
4. Ada R Thornburg  1891-1988
5. Glen Erwin Thornburg  1894-1989

Notes about Lamont Erwin Thornburg

California, Death Index, 1940-1997
Name: Lamott Erwin Thornburg
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 23 Apr 1858
Birth Place: Iowa
Death Date: 22 Oct 1943
Death Place: Stanislaus
Mother's Maiden Name: Curtis
Father's Surname: Thornburg

Page652 History of Stanislaus County, California, USA

LAMOTT E. THORNBURG. An esteemed citizen of Stanislaus County who is enjoying a well-deserved retirement is Lamott E. Thornburg, who was born in Mitchell, Iowa, on April 23, 1858, the son of William H. Thornburg, a native of Laporte, Ind., and a farmer, who took up Government land in Iowa and married Miss Oresta Curtis, a native of Pennsylvania, who had come with her parents to Iowa in her girlhood. In 1859 Wm. Thornburg, with comrades, started for Pike's Peak, Colo., on account of the gold rush just starting in that region. As they proceeded up the Platte River, they met many who were returning home from Pike's Peak discouraged, so being well provisioned and with good ox-teams and wagons,they determined to push on to California and in due time arrived in the Sacramento Valley. After following mining in the Sierras a while, Mr. Thornburg returned to his family who had been left on the Iowa farm and soon afterwards he moved from Mitchell to Alamakee County, when Lamott was still a little lad; and there went in for farming again and so it happened that Lamott attended the district school at Waukon, Iowa. During the great struggle of the Civil War Wm. Thornburg served three years with patriotic zeal in the Twenty-seventh Iowa Volunteer Infantry.

After the war he continued farming, but he was not satisfied in Iowa on account of his liking for California, which eventually became so strong he sold his Iowa hold- ings and when Lamott was about twelve years of age, his father brought the family out to California, in May, 1870, on one of the early transcontinental trains, and settled in Stanislaus County, west of the present location of Turlock ; and after a year they removed to the Panoche Valley in Fresno County. There again his father bought Government land, and he became a successful grain farmer and stockman. In 1879 they left the Panoche Valley and returned to Stanislaus County; and this time they settled near Modesto. Mr. Thornburg purchased about 150 acres, upon which he lived until 1885; and then he sold out and removed to the vicinity of Turlock, where he purchased a half-section of land, which he planted to grain which as soon as the irrigation system was completed he improved to alfalfa and orchards. He lived to be about seventy-five years old, and then, amid the comfortable surroundings of his own ranch, he passed away. His widow now lives retired in Turlock at the venerable age of eighty-one, hale and hearty. They had four children ; two are living, Lamott of this review and William, who resides near Los Angeles.

Lamott Thornburg, when he was twenty-one years old, started to work on various ranches in Stanislaus County, and in that way he labored for about four years. Then, on February 5, 1882, he was married to Miss Hannah Crispin, the ceremony taking place on the ranch of her sister northwest of Modesto. She was a native of Mahaska County, Iowa. Her father, Frank Crispin, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, September 10, 1827, and in 1848 became an early settler of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and then he married Miss Adeline Bonsell in 1850, who was a native of Virginia. He followed farming in Iowa for thirty-five years. Four of the children had moved to Stanislaus County, so the parents joined them here in 1883, and here they made their home, celebrating their golden wedding in 1900, when all of their children but one were present. He passed away, aged eighty-one, being survived by his widow until she, too, passed on, aged eighty-three. Their six children were as follows: Laura, Mrs. J. K. Carson of Modesto; Mary, Mrs. Mattox, passed away in Iowa; Janet is Mrs. I. W. Updike of Modesto; Hannah is Mrs. Thornburg; T. J. is a well-known rancher near Modesto, and Susie is Mrs. Clark of Fresno. Hannah Crispin attended the public schools of Oskaloosa and also Penn College in that city. She came to Modesto in 1880 with a sister, and here she met Lamott Thornburg. After their marriage Mr. Thornburg leased a farm of 640 acres near Turlock, devoted to grain, and having removed there, they farmed it for three years. In 1884 Mr. Thornburg purchased from John Mitchell some 335 acres one and a half miles northwest of Turlock, which he farmed to grain. In 1888 he bought 100 acres more and also leased other lands, having as much as 1,000 acres in grain at a time. When the district came under irrigation he immediately improved his land for intensive farming, leveling and checking the land. He had about 300 acres in alfalfa, and was quite extensively engaged in dairying and stock raising, making a specialty of Holsteins, his dairy comprising about seventy-five cows. He was also engaged in raising draft horses and mules. From time to time he sold some of his ranch, retaining 135 acres, which he now rents, it being devoted to double cropping. The ranch is under the Turlock Irrigation District and at one time Mr. Thornburg grew only alfalfa. Later, however, he plowed that out and double-cropping was started. In 1913 he built a comfortable residence in Modesto, where he and his estimable wife have since resided. Five children have come to bless the Thornburg family life, although that family is at present scattered. Ivy A. is Mrs. Wade Howell, and she resides near Modesto; Delwin C. is farming at Turlock, and so is Ray H. ; Ada R. is the present Mrs. Ralph Crow, of Crows Landing; and Glen E. is farming not far from Turlock.

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