David Jackson Thornton ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

(Source: William Thornton, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2688525&id=I539593403)

David Jackson Thornton was the second son of William Jackson Thornton and Bulah Horsley. When he left the family farm in 1941 to join the US Navy, his plan was to pay for his brother's tuition at The Georgia School for The Deaf. He did so, and went on to complete a 21 year career in the Navy, retiring in 1961 as a Chief Warrant Officer. His military career included assignments in the Mediterranean Sea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and many other overseas assignments. He married Elizabeth Gean Carey in Detroit, Michigan in 1946, and they had three children, the first of which died at three weeks. The other two are still living. David went on to a second career as a technical writer, and was murdered November 12, 1983 after a dispute over the neighbor's dog. He is buried at Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, California.
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  Burial Notes:

Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, Riverside County, California

David married Elizabeth Gean Carey, daughter of Kenneth John Carey and Helen Marie Fanning, in 1946 in Detroit, MI.^{1 2} (Elizabeth Gean Carey was born on 3 January 1926 in Rockford, IL,^{1 2 3} died on 11 March 1964 in Upland, CA ^{1 2} and was buried in March 1964 in Ontario, CA ².)