Albert OLDS

  General Notes:

The Marion Daily Star, Marion, Ohio August 6 1914 page 2 ANNUAL REUNION OF THURSTON FAMILY Twenty-third Annuel Gathering at Lincoln Park ----------------- Large Company Is In Attendance Big Picnic Dinner is Served at the Noon Hour-Afternoon is Spent in Music and Games-Some Fine Piano and Vocal Selections-Those in Attendance- The Twenty-third annual reunion of the Thurston family was held today at Lincoln Park. It was the first outting the family has held at Marion. About 124 attended the affair which was featured with a sumptuious picnic dinner at the noon hour served in the pavilion of the park. The afternoon was spent in music, games and a program. Misses Irene Thurston, Lucile Benedict, and Blanche Thurston favored with piano and vocal selections. Miss Blanche Thurston is of Houghton, New York. Those attending the reunion were: Mr and Mrs Marion Westbrook; Mr and Mrs Neil Olds; Mr and Mrs Albert Olds; Mrs Amanda Thurston; Miss Mabel Longwell; Charles A Olds; Harold F Olds; Florence Westbrook;.....................

History of Delaware County and Ohio, (O L Baskin S Co., Historical Publishers 1880), Page 794.
"ALBERT OLDS, farmer, Sec. 2 ; P. O. Ashley ;son of Ezra and Theda (Washburn) Olds ; his father was born in Luzerne Co., Penn., in 1790, and emigrated to Ohio in the spring of 1808-09, settling, for two years, near Galena, and then settled on the farm now owned by Albert ; his father was in the war of 1812 ; he died Nov. 18, 1848 ; his mother is living with Mr. Olds, and is 76 years of age ; they had twelve children-Charles, Miles, Albert, Abigail, Sarah, Mary (infant), John, Benjamin, Eliza, Milo, Madison ; they were members of M. E. Church ; his father was once Commissioner of Delaware Co., and was Justice of the Peace for many years; his first election to this office was in 1813 ; his mother was from New York State; her father emigrated to Ohio about 1814, settling at Delaware City ; she was one of nine children. Our subject was born in 1828, in Delaware Co., where he has always remained. He was married, Dec. 3, 1857, to Louisa, daughter of Joseph and Charlotte (Loofbourrow) Thurston ; her parents had ten children-Wilson, Alfred, Fannie, John, Elmore, Louisa, Jerusha, Lucretia, Della, Clara ; they are now living in Delaware City; his wife was born Aug. 6, 1839 ; they have seven children-Willard (deceased), Charles, John, Bertie, Fannie (infant, deceased), infant born in 1880 ; he has seventy acres in the present farm, the old homestead of his fathers, and seventy-seven acres in another tract, attained partly by his own labors and management. They are members of the M. E. Church, in which he has taken great interest financially as well as spiritually. He makes a specialty in stock-raising ; his fathers house on this place was used for the first church spire in this part of the township. The Olds family will be prominently mentioned in the township history."

  Noted events in his life were:

• Birth, 1828.

Albert married Mary Louisa THURSTON, daughter of Joseph THURSTON and Charlotte LOOFBOURROW, on 3 Dec 1857 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States. (Mary Louisa THURSTON was born on 6 Aug 1839 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States, died on 20 May 1915 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States and was buried in Marlborough Cem., Troy, Delaware, Ohio, USA.)