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In Loving Memory of

MARY ANN
THE DEARLY LOVED DAUGHTER
OF
JOSEPH HENRY AND SARAH ANN
THORNTON
WHO DIED JANUARY 14TH 1910
AGED 34 YEARS.

GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTON

THE TOMB IS CLOSED UPON HER NOW
AND GENTLE IS HER SLEEP
WE KNOW THAT SHE HAS REACHED THE SHORE
WHERE NONE SHALL EVER WEEP.

ALSO
JOSEPH HENRY THORNTON
DIED APRIL 11TH 1923
AGED 72 YEARS.

SARAH ANN THORNTON
DIED NOV. 24TH 1925. AGED 74 YEARS
PEACE, PERFECT PEACE


Mary Ann Thornton was born at Kettering about 1876, the eldest of five known children of Joseph Henry Thornton of Desborough and Sarah Ann Jelley of Arthingworth.