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Mary Edgerly <I>Thornton</I> McCracken

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Mary Edgerly Thornton McCracken

Birth
Thornton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, USA
Death
25 Apr 1913 (aged 88)
Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Father: Nathan Thornton
Mother: Olive Edgerly
Spouse: George W. McCracken


Mary Edgerly Thornton, a descendant of a notable Scotch-Irish family, one of whom, Hon. Mathew Thornton, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence for the state of New Hampshire. She was born May 15, 1824, in the town of Thornton, New Hampshire, named for her grandfather,
its founder. She was the daughter of Nathan and Olive (Edgerly) Thornton and great-granddaughter of Captain Thomas Thornton, of Durham, who was a soldier in the revolution, and whose wife died at the advanced age of one hundred and four years, according to family records, at Lowell, Massachusetts. Her grandfather, George Edgerly, was a farmer of Rye, New Hampshire. George Washington and Mary E. McCracken have eight children,
seventeen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

(Ellery Bicknell Crane. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity (Volume 4))
Father: Nathan Thornton
Mother: Olive Edgerly
Spouse: George W. McCracken


Mary Edgerly Thornton, a descendant of a notable Scotch-Irish family, one of whom, Hon. Mathew Thornton, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence for the state of New Hampshire. She was born May 15, 1824, in the town of Thornton, New Hampshire, named for her grandfather,
its founder. She was the daughter of Nathan and Olive (Edgerly) Thornton and great-granddaughter of Captain Thomas Thornton, of Durham, who was a soldier in the revolution, and whose wife died at the advanced age of one hundred and four years, according to family records, at Lowell, Massachusetts. Her grandfather, George Edgerly, was a farmer of Rye, New Hampshire. George Washington and Mary E. McCracken have eight children,
seventeen grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

(Ellery Bicknell Crane. Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester county, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity (Volume 4))


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  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/140378560/mary_edgerly-mccracken: accessed ), memorial page for Mary Edgerly Thornton McCracken (15 May 1824–25 Apr 1913), Find a Grave Memorial ID 140378560, citing Millbury Central Cemetery, Millbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by TAYLOR (contributor 47701928).