Nettie (Thorne) Blood
(1861-1950)
Annette "Nettie" (Thorne) Blood was born in 1861 most likely in Bourbon, Marshall County, IN, the daughter of Jacob and Amy (Minerd) Thorne. As a young girl, she moved with her parents and siblings to Chicago.
Sometime between 1900 and 1910, Nettie married Isaac W. Blood (1846- ? ), a native of England. Isaac had been married once before, and had a child to the previous marriage. He was a druggist who owned his own store in Chicago. Nettie was 15 years younger than her husband.
When the federal census was taken in 1910, the Bloods made their home with Nettie's mother on Vincennes Avenue in Chicago. Isaac was age 64, and Nettie was 47 (or 49).
Sadly, Isaac died sometime in the decade of the 1910s, as Nettie was a widow as shown on the 1920 census.
In 1947, Nettie was residing with her unmarried sister Leona Thorne at 4531 Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago. That year, after her half brother Corwin Tilbury died in Pittsburgh, Nettie learned that she was named in the will. Due to a minor controversy over the terms of the will, she was asked to attend a court hearing in Pittsburgh, but she declined, citing "illness." Corwin's bequest was that she receive 40 percent of the assets in his estate, which resulted in a payment to her of close to $3,000.
Nettie is believed to have died in Chicago on Feb. 4, 1950, at the age of 89. More details will be added here when learned.
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