FamilySearch ID: KWV9-JD6
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Oliver E Thornton

Birth	6 September 1806	Pickering, Durham, Upper Canada, British North America	Citation(s) Birth Citation(s) Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Oliver E Thornton (1806-1891), memorial #23579027. "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Oliver Thornton, ID: KWV9-JD6. Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946, Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah), database, FamilySearch, Oliver Thornton, 21 January 1891; citing American Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States; Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Death	21 January 1891	American Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States	Citation(s) Death Citation(s) Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Oliver E Thornton (1806-1891), memorial #23579027. Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946, Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah), database, FamilySearch, Oliver Thornton, 21 January 1891; citing American Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States; Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Burial	January 1891	American Fork Cemetery, American Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States	Citation(s) Burial Citation(s) Find A Grave, database and images, memorial page for Oliver E Thornton (1806-1891), memorial #23579027. "FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Oliver Thornton, ID: KWV9-JD6. Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946, Utah Deaths and Burials, 1888-1946 (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah), database, FamilySearch, Oliver Thornton, 21 January 1891; citing American Fork, Utah, Utah Territory, United States; Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Father	Joseph Thornton
Mother	Lucretia Calkins

Marriages Label

• Mary Griswold

Married

1827

Pickering, Durham, Upper Canada, British North America

Citation(s)

Marriage Citation(s)
"FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Oliver Thornton and Mary Griswold, ID: KWV9-JD6 and ID: KWV9-JDD.

          Children:
               Lydia Meacham Thornton
               Amos Griswold Thornton
               Thomas Ephraim Thornton
               Edwin Hotchkiss Thornton
               Alice Ann Griswold Thornton
               Appolos Griswold Thornton
               Eleanor Stotts Thornton
               Mary Thornton
               Oliver Evans Thornton
               Joseph Smith Thornton
               Edmund Butler Thornton
               Nathan Moroni Thornton

• Margaret Mariah McElvin

Married

After 1858

Utah Territory, United States

Citation(s)

Marriage Citation(s)
"FamilySearch Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (: FamilySearch.org), entry for Oliver Thornton and Margaret Mariah McElvin, ID: KWV9-JD6 and ID: LVKT-GN9.

Residences Label

• 1841	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
• 1850	Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States
• 1860	Battle Creek, Utah, Utah Territory, United States
• 1870	Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah Territory, United States

LDS Information Label

Baptism

Death & Burial Records Label

• Death Record	View Source	Image(s)
• Grave Marker	View Source

Census Records Label

• 1850 Population Census	the District No 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa	Extract	Image	1850 Population Census Citation(s) SOURCE GOES HERE
• 1860 Population Census	Battle Creek, Utah, Utah Territory	Extract	Image
• 1870 Population Census	Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah Territory	Extract	Image
• 1880 Population Census	Pleasant Grove, Pleasant Grove Precinct, Utah, Utah Territory	Extract	Image

Migration Records Label

Crossing the Plains

• Robert Wimmer Company		View Source	Citation(s) Crossing the Plains Citation(s) Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pioneer Overland Travel" (Salt Lake City, UT: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Departure	Jul 1852
Arrival	15 Sept 1852

Nauvoo Community Project

Nauvoo Community Project

Oliver E Thornton

Crossing the Plains