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Wm. W. THORNBERRY

Cheyenne Valley Cemetery



Wallace Ware Thornberry
1849 - 1909
© Enid News and Eagle
08-12-2015
Submitted by: Jeff Smith



Two gravestones that call a farm in Ringwood home soon will be reunited with the intended owners after more than 100 years.

The gravestones read Wm. W. Thornberry, Co. D., 3 Ky. Cav, and Thos. J. Hutchins, Co . H., 1 Ark. Cav...

The first individual was discovered to be Wallace Ware Thornberry...

Thornberry was born in 1849 in Lewisburg, Ky. He married Sarah Ann Williams in 1869, and they had nine children, according to his obituary published in The Cleo Chieftain in 1909. He died in 1909 in Crowell, and he is buried in Cheyenne Cemetery in Major County.

His obituary published in The Cleo Chieftain described him as a staunch Republican who came to Oklahome in 1893 and settled in 1899. There are no known living descendants...

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