Dr. Everett Parker writes that his grandfather, Walter Thurston, was born in Vermont ca. 1874, died in Orlando, Florida, in 1966 at the age of 92. . His first wife was Addie Hopkins, born in Detroit, Maine (she is buried in the Detroit cemetery, along with Walter. They had six daughters all born in Greene:
After Addie Thurston died, Walter married 2nd Edith Smith.