FAMILY OF JAMES WILLIAM& IDA MAE PATTERSON THAYER b.April 30,1861 d.Aug.11,1938b.Aug. 9,1861 d. Mar.9,1927 Annie Elizabeth b.Aug. 9,1880 d.May 3,1965 sp. Ira Clear b.? d.? Frank Hugh b.Feb.14,1885 d.? sp. Nora P.Taylor b.April 7,1886 d.Sept 19,1951 John Amosb.Feb 21, 1887 d.Set. 14,1972 sp.Helen Harding b.May 20,1897 d.Nov. 1957 William Basilb.July 22, 1889 d.June 1,1972 sp. Martha Carson b.April 2,1902 d.May16,1974 Lowery Davis b.Mar. 11, 1891 d. April 14,1949 sp.Nellie B. Knox b.Nov.18,1893 Emmett Gieseyb. June 21, 1894 d.Nov. 9,1980 sp. Lillie E. Pinkerton b. Oct. 9,1915 living Irene May b.Mar. 10,1892 d. 1969 sp.1 Roy Springer sp.2 Joseph Elmer Fowler b. Dec. 13 1897 d.Mar. 27,1976 Charles Aber b. Dec. 16, 1896 d. Dec. 18, 1956 sp. Sarah Jane Costillo b.Feb.10,1902 d.Feb.3,1981 Ida May b.May 12, 1898 d. Infant Theodore Roosevelt b.Oct 16, 1900 Samuel Pierce b. April 8,1903 d. infant Floyd Anderson b.June 30, 1904 d. Mar 4,1961 sp.Martha Violet Pinkerton b.1911 d.1953 Most of the imformation on this page was gotten from a family Bible owned by the first born Annie E. I have copied dates and middle names from this Bible. The imformation for the deaths of James and Ida was from their death certifcates. To speculate on some of the imformation that I have received is just that. I takes this to be as close as I can get...the handwritting of Annie E.Thayer. Toronto,Ohio June 22,1917--At the foot of Wallace Hill, on the pike road from Toronto to Knoxville, there nestles a tiny picturesque cottage in front of which floats the stars and stripes supplemented with a service flag containing six stars. It is the home of Mr. and Mrs. James William Thayer who have five sons and one adopted son in the service of Uncle Sam. The Thayers come of fighting stock,both Mr and Mrs. Thayer's fathers having fought in the Civil War........... Article in Steubenville Paper Toronto,Jefferson County,Ohio...March 9,1927. Mrs. Ida Mae Thayer,age 65 years,10 months,9 days, died at the family home on the Knoxville Rd.,near Wallace Hill at eleven o'clock yesterday following a long illness. Funeral services will be held at the Van Nuys Funeral Home on Saturday, March 12, with burial in the Toronto Union Cementary. Mrs. Thayer has been a resident of Toronto for 45 years since the marriage to Mr. Thayer. Surviving are 10 children,13 great grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. In 1928 James Thayer married Grace Wallace Robbins. He was married to Grace at the time of his death in 1938. He died of a heart attach at the age of 78 in Steubenville, Ohio. He had been a resident of Toronto for most of his life, an upholsterer by trade and member of the Church of God. Below is a picture of James Thayer and his second wife, Grace, with some of the Thayer Children, their spouses, and grandchildren. return to main page
The Thayers come of fighting stock,both Mr and Mrs. Thayer's fathers having fought in the Civil War........... Article in Steubenville Paper