Get together at Phil's Lakehouse 6-9-2010
Ali Thornton of Nokomis meets some very distant cousins.

Ali, born 10-19-08, is the daughter of Ben & Julie and granddaughter of Marcia Thornton.

 

Alice Hees, Fred & Fran Adams, Judy & Ron Bowman



Alice with Peggy Eckel





Fred & Kate

Judy Woerner, Kathryn Vander Plaats, Belle & Lydia Lansaw



cousin Peggy Eckel

... the host - Phil Woerner with twins - Ruth & Alice

Ruth, Alice, Fred, Fran, Judy & Ron




One of the pictures viewed at this gathering was on a tattered post card. It depicts the 1913 school and home of J B & Eliza Thornton in Kobe, Japan.
That photograph was used in a news item sent out by the JEB and published in a local Illinois newspaper and as such became part of the Henderson/Thornton history in Greene County, Il. 
Thornton home & school, Kobe, Japan - 1913