Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1914 — Son of Ben Thornton a Victim of Paralysis. [ARTICLE]

Son of Ben Thornton a Victim of Paralysis.

Many of our older people will remember R. B. Thornton, better known during his residence here as Ben Thornton. He moved to Tipton in 1890, where his death occurred in 1911. On Aug. 2nd his Guy D. Thornton, aged 30 years and 4 months, died at Tipton, Ind M of paralysis. He was employed in the 'round house and yards of the Erie railroad and the stroke of paralysis occurred three weeks before his death. Deceased was married .Oct. 31, 1908, to Miss Blanche Austin, of Tipton, and his wife and two little girls, Mary, aged 5, and Leona, aged 3, survive him; also his mother and three brothers and one sister. Mrs. William Dixey, of Rensselaer, is a sister of his father, and Mrs. Harrison Warren is a sister oif his mother