Francis Wheaton Thurber

1844-1907 · Pawtucket RI

Born 1844, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Died 1907

Father: Nathaniel Ide Thurber

Mother: Rhoda Mason Peck

Children include Edward

Francis Wheaton Thurber was born on 15 May 1844 at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the son of Nathaniel Ide Thurber and Rhoda Mason Peck. On 18 December 1869, at Providence, he married Sarah Elizabeth Miller of Attleboro. Their children were Charles Wheaton (1874), Edward Mason (1877), Ada May (1880) and Louis Mayhew (1884). In 1880 he was at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, with Sarah and the children. Sarah died in 1892. Francis died at Providence on 2 August 1907, at sixty-three. His death record names his parents, Nathaniel and Rhoda. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Attleboro, where the stone on lot 821 names him with his parents and two of his sons.

He was seventeen when his father, Nathaniel Ide Thurber, a Rehoboth farmer, enlisted in the 29th Massachusetts Infantry in December 1861, and nineteen when his father died, in October 1863, eight months after being discharged for disability. In 1865 Francis was at Rehoboth.

Parents

Nathaniel Ide Thurber 1822-1863

Rhoda Mason Peck (1824-1890)

Children

Edward Mason Thurber 1877-1928

Sources

United States census, 1880, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Rehoboth; FamilySearch https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH69-33L

Find a Grave, memorial 142116376, Woodlawn Cemetery, Attleboro, Massachusetts

Rhode Island, Marriages, 1724-1916, FamilySearch 1:1:F8KP-V5Z

Rhode Island, Vital Records, 1846-1898, 1901-1955, FamilySearch 1:1:MD9F-1V3

Rhode Island, State Births Index, 1819, 1852-1900, FamilySearch 1:1:FZBW-R9D

1880 census, Rehoboth, as father of Eddie M. Thurber (FamilySearch 1:1:MH69-33L); Find a Grave memorial 142116376, Woodlawn Cemetery, Attleboro, which gives his dates, parents and children; Rhode Island Marriages, Francis W. Thurber and Sarah Elizabeth Miller, Providence, 18 December 1869 (FamilySearch 1:1:F8KP-V5Z); Rhode Island vital records, death of Francis Wheaton Thurber, Providence, 2 August 1907, parents Nathaniel and Rhoda (FamilySearch 1:1:MD9F-1V3); monument at Woodlawn Cemetery

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