Brief Life History of Smallwood Jefferson
When Smallwood Jefferson Dalton Sr. was born on 16 June 1815, in Piedmont, Anderson, South Carolina, United States, his father, Burwell Smallwood Dalton Sr, was 25 and his mother, Lucy Booth Clardy, was 21. He married Rebecca Eskew on 19 August 1832, in Anderson, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States in 1850 and Grove Station Church, Greenville, South Carolina, United States in 1860. He died on 1 March 1894, in South Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Grove Township, Greenville, South Carolina, United States.
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- Small Dalton, "United States Census, 1880"
- Smallwood Dalton, "Find A Grave Index"
- Smal... Dalton in entry for Robert Augustus Dalton, "South Carolina Deaths, 1915-1965"
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1819 · Panic! of 1819
With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
1822 · Slave Rebellion
On June 16, 1822, Denmark Vesey a free and self-educated African American leads a slave rebellion called "the rising." The interesting thing about this rebellion is that it does not really happen. The only thing the judges have to go on is the testimony of people that witness it.
1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
Name Meaning
English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Dalton in Westmorland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see Dale ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: The surname was taken to Ireland by English traders in the early 13th century .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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