File transfer offer #3
 

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         It will be published if and when I locate it - that, too, I have managed to misplace.
      Much, if not all of that "family tree" is applied to Dan's personal branch at: 
Dan's Prodigy page

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St Louis to Greenfield - from folder: 1927-1950......
  
            During these years grandpa Thornton was referred to as Pastor Thornton of Hope Congregational Church of St. Louis.  His son David , in his late teens, was the music director of the same congregation. It was during this period that grandpa assisted David in the selection and annotation of the scriptural text that are the basis of the cantata, My Heart Is Glad. The program handout for the first (1940) presentation listing the participants and the text can be viewed and reproduced at:
    
Scriptural text / annotation from the 1940 program production.
    
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Greenfield to Heaven - from folder: 1951-1958......


the inscription taken from Philippians 1:21
"to live is Christ, to die is gain"

     For the gps location of this burial site, go to:   Jesse Blackburn & Eliza W Thornton  
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