This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thornton, Hiatt, Trotman Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4171 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. November 9, 1933. "Died In South Dakota".-- Lily Ray Thornton was born in Sidney August 9, 1867, and died at Miller, South Dakota, October 13, 1933. Her death occurred at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Trotman. Deceased was a daughter of T. D. and Julia A. Thornton, pioneers of the Sidney community. Her girlhood days were spent in Sidney, and on January 8, 1886, she was married to L. N. Hiatt. A few years afterward they moved to Nebraska, then to Kansas, and in 1909 to South Dakota, living on a farm for several years, ten years ago moving to Miller. Mrs. Hiatt was the mother of five children, Albert LeRoy, Vesta Ann and Grace Lenora Trotman of Miller; Charles R. of Naska, Kansas; Evan Maude of DeGrey, South Dakota. M. M. Thornton of Sidney is a brother. Three other brothers and one sister preceded her to the tomb. She leaves in addition to the above fifteen grandchildren. Mrs. Hiatt was a long-time member of the Order of Eastern Star and of the Royal Neighbors, also of the Methodist church. Her bereaved husband will continue his residence in Miller.