Children of Garth and Edna - Thomas

Thomas Woodburn Beckington was the sixth child and fifth son of Garth and Edna. He was born November 23, 1915 on Whittaker Road at the family home. I had always assumed he was named after his great-grandfather and our immigrant, Thomas Beckington of England, who settled with his wife and family in Boone County, Illinois, having come to America in 1847. Tom's middle name, Woodburn, is from the Dr. (Thomas Woodburn Patton)who delivered Tom. I suppose it is possible the Thomas came from this Dr. also. I guess Edna was running out of family names. Tom graduated from Lincoln High School and married Dorothy Virginia Ranson on January 16, 1938 in Angola, Indiana (there is a definite pattern at play here with Angola marriages in the family). Tom spent most of his life as a farmer in the Saline and Manchester areas before retiring to Saline, Michigan. Tom and Dorothy had three daughters and a son. Tom died on July 27, 1981 in Ann Arbor, Michigan from heart failure. Dorothy passed away on May 14, 1998, in Ann Arbor. They are buried in the Washtenong Cemetery in Ann Arbor.