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Thornton Parsons 1882 - 1966

Thornton Parsons of New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia was born on September 16, 1882, and died at age 84 years old in November 1966.
Thornton Parsons
New Martinsville, Wetzel County, West Virginia 26155
September 16, 1882
November 1966
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Thornton Parsons' History: 1882 - 1966

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    1882

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    September 16, 1882
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  • 11/dd
    1966

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    November 1966
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    Thornton Parsons lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 84.
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In 1882, in the year that Thornton Parsons was born, on September 4th, the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in the U.S. - at 255-257 Pearl Street - was flipped by Thomas Edison. It lit one square mile of lower Manhattan and was powered by coal. The "electrical age" had begun.
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In 1917, at the age of 35 years old, Thornton was alive when on July 28, between ten and fifteen thousand blacks silently walked down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest racial discrimination and violence. Lynchings in Waco Texas and hundreds of African-Americans killed in East St. Louis Illinois had sparked the protest. Picket signs said "Mother, do lynchers go to heaven?" "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?" "Thou shalt not kill." "Pray for the Lady Macbeth's of East St. Louis" and "Give us a chance to live."
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