Nathan
Thornton

NATHAN THORNTON was born in Virginia on December 22, 1873. He had moved to Camden by the time the 1890-1891 Camden City Directory was compiled, and is listed as living on Miller Street, south of Jefferson Street. By 1900 he was then working as a laborer and living at 1001 Ferry Avenue. By 1910 he had secured a position with the Camden Police Department. Nathan Thornton then lived at 972 Ferry Avenue, boarding with Haney Miller and his family. Nathan Thornton board with Miller through at least January of 1920. The 1924 Camden City Directory shows Nathan Thornton had married. He and wife Pearl are listed at 918 Jefferson Avenue.

Nathan Thornton remained on the police force through the spring of 1930. The 1930 Census show Nathan Thornton and his wife Pearl living at 918 Jefferson Street. By the time the 1947 Directory was published, Nathan Thornton is not listed. There is, however, listed in the 1947 Directory a Robert L. Thornton living at 918 Jefferson Street with a wife named Pearl. 

Camden Courier-Post * February 9, 1922

FAT WOMAN IN THE WAY

John Kretcher, a grocer, of 884 Ferry Avenue, opened his store just in time in the morning to see a colored man swiping his supply of bread and cakes from the front doorstep. He pursued the thief and would have caught him had not a fat little negress he could not recognize gotten in his way and hold him fast until the bread robber made his escape around the corner. Policeman Nate Thornton appeared a few minutes later but by that time the thief and his fat friend were gone.