History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . rn Feb. 3,1817; William, Feb. 26, 1818; Eliza E., Nov. 15,1819; Israel, Aug. 22, 1821; Arold F., Feb. 13, 1823;Margaret R., Nov. 16, 1824 (died in infancy); Ben-jamin C, Jan. 3, 1827 ; Rachel A., June 20, 1828;Margaret R., 1831; Mary J., May 18, 1833; Joanna,Oct. 31, 1836. Israel, the .subject of our sketch, is the fourth gen-eration in regular descent having the Thornal namewho has owned and lived upon the place he now oc-cupies. While a boy he attended the district schooland worked
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . rn Feb. 3,1817; William, Feb. 26, 1818; Eliza E., Nov. 15,1819; Israel, Aug. 22, 1821; Arold F., Feb. 13, 1823;Margaret R., Nov. 16, 1824 (died in infancy); Ben-jamin C, Jan. 3, 1827 ; Rachel A., June 20, 1828;Margaret R., 1831; Mary J., May 18, 1833; Joanna,Oct. 31, 1836. Israel, the .subject of our sketch, is the fourth gen-eration in regular descent having the Thornal namewho has owned and lived upon the place he now oc-cupies. While a boy he attended the district schooland worked on the farm, as was the custom of thosetimes. After finishing his studies at school he turnedhis whole attention to farming, and had sole chargeof the farm for eight or ten years before his fathersdeath. By his will his father gave him the farm, and RARITAN TOWNSHIP. 851 made him sole executor of the estate. His AuntLockie made her home with him. She died April25, 1878, aged eighty-six. She used to relate manyinteresting incidents of the dark days of the Revolu-tion, as told by her father and his ISRAEL THORNAL. Israel Thornal was married, April 11, 1872, toGeorgia Williams, who was born June 1, 1836. Thechildren of this marriage are Dillie F., born Aug. 13,1873; Georgia F., Oct. 9, 1874; Manning, Feb. 9,1877. Mr. Thornal united with the Presbyterian Churchof Metuchen in the spring of 1862, and has been amember of the board of trustees of that church forthe last ten years. He has a large, wall-cultivatadfarm and a pleasant home. Ha has been a life-longDemocrat, and although not taking an active part inpolitics he has repeatedly refused to accept is now chairman of the town committee. is a gentleman well thought of in his town-ship, and is a good representative of the careful,thrifty, progressive farmer. He has always lived onthe Thornal homastea^. WILLIAM T. paternal grandfather of the subject of thissketch came from Scotland and settle
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