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- !SOURCE: Email from Beth Hurd to Weldon Whipple, 9 May 2005. Cites the bride index in the Woonsocket (RI) Town Hall: "book 6, page 240 October 11, 1924: William James Thornley, b. Oct. 18, 1899, res. 3 Belmont Street, Lowell, MA, age 24, white, paymaster, b. Virginia, parents b. RI/Eng, William J. & Ada B. (Shippard) Thornley, father's occ: deceased, 1st marriage; married by Ed Hilton Post, Methodist clergyman to Grace Lapham Whipple, b. Nov. 15, 1898, res. 95 Coe Street, 25, occ: "at home"; father's occ: janitor; b. Providence, RI, parents born RI/RI, Rupert L. & Ellen W. (Webster) Whipple, 1st marriage."
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