WILLIAM THOMAS SCRANTON - 80th BIRTHDAY
January 19, 1928

Tom Scranton of Pleasant Hill celebrated his 91st birthday on January 19th. He is practically blind, but able to tell daylight from darkness, and recently has become so hard of hearing that reading aloud to him is not satisfactory. However, he enjoys visitors and two Democrat-Times reporters spent a delightful afternoon last fall, talking with him and securing this likeness of him with one of his grandsons. (the picture was too grainy to copy)

Miss Ethel Scranton keeps house for him and ministers most kindly to his many needs. The Scranton home is a large attractive two-story house in the southeast part of Pleasant Hill. They have a large _________ south part of which they sold this past year and on which a new little house has been built.

Mr. Scranton is the son of John (Jack) and Sarah Allison Scranton who lived at Nebo. His father went South before the Civil war and never returned. His mother died when he was a little boy, and an older sister kept house for him and his brothers and sisters. Mr. Scranton is the last of his family.

He married Mary Achterrahta, a native of Germany, and later of Adams county, on Oct. 27, 1874. They farmed in Pike and Adams counties, spending but 13 years in the latter county. He has lived in his present home for 11 years.

Mr. Scranton was the father of four girls and a son, as follows: Hattie, Mrs. Louis Roberts of Pleasant Hill; Sadie, Mrs. Jack Greenstreet, who lives between Nebo and Pleasant Hill; Lottie Pinkerton, who died in 1932; Miss Ethel at home; and Henry Scranton, of Stockland neighborhood. He has 14 grandchildren, only one of whom is a grandson bearing the last name of Scranton. We are especially happy to have “Uncle Tom” Scranton, as he is familiarly called by his many friends to join our Over 80 club as he is of the smaller group of “Over 90 club”.

Contributed by Carolyne Conner Puskas - “Over 80 Club” article from Democrat-Times paper