Nellie Etta Obourn

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Nellie Etta Obourn (Thurston)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Barclay, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States
Death: December 28, 1923 (55)
Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States (cerebral hemmorhage)
Place of Burial: Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Henry Thurston and Margaret Thurston
Wife of George E Obourn
Mother of Ellsworth Scott Obourn and Howard Carlton "Duke" Obourn
Sister of William Thurston; Lewis Thurston; Alton Thurston; Sara Newell and Della Brown

Managed by: Mark Obourn Harrington
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About Nellie Etta Obourn

from Ellsworth S. Obourn's biography in Science Education, February 1963: Etta Thurston Obourn was a native of Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Her family migrated from England prior to the Revolutionary War. Several of her relatives fought in the Revolutionary War.

From her obituary: Mrs. Obourn was a very quiet and unassuming lady, one who had many friends and was much loved by those with whom she came in daily contact because of her kind and sympathetic nature. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and was active in its work and will be greatly missed there as well as by her friends and family.

From the memories of Robert Lyle Obourn compiled for the 1990 family reunion: Her family originally came from Charleston, NC where they settled about 1640. The original Thurston was a shipwright. She was a very precise person who believed that cleanliness was next to Godliness.

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Nellie Etta Obourn's Timeline

1868
March 8, 1868
Barclay, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, United States
1897
September 5, 1897
Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States
1901
1901
Tioga, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States
1923
December 28, 1923
Age 55
Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States
December 30, 1923
Age 55
Prospect Cemetary (earlier Hope Cemetary), Mansfield, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States