Brief Life History of Dorothy Elizabeth
When Dorothy Elizabeth Holeton was born in 1851, in Ohio, United States, her father, Gomaliel "Mahlon" N Holeton, was 25 and her mother, Sarah Orr, was 26. She married Thomas J Popejoy on 21 January 1873, in Harrison, Iowa, United States. She lived in Morgan Township, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Woodbine, Harrison, Iowa, United States in 1920. She died on 7 December 1929, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Woodbine Cemetery, Woodbine, Harrison, Iowa, United States.
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- Elisobath Holton in household of Mahlon Holton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Elizabeth Holeton, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
- Dorothy Elizabeth Popejoy, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"
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1851
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Harrison, Iowa, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
English (Middlesex and Sussex): possibly a variant of Halston, which is partly a habitational name from Halston (Shropshire), perhaps named with an Old English personal name Ealh + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, and partly derived from the Middle English personal name Halstein. Alternatively, Holston may be a habitational name from Holstone in Durham (from Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + stān ‘stone’) or from a lost or unidentified place so called.
Probably an Americanized form of German Holsten .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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