Amos Harrison Dalton

1839–
South Carolina, United States

The Life Summary of Amos Harrison

When Amos Harrison Dalton was born in 1839, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Smallwood Jefferson Dalton, was 24 and his mother, Rebecca Eskew, was 27. He lived in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States in 1850 and Grove Station Church, Greenville, South Carolina, United States in 1860.

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Family Time Line

Smallwood Jefferson Dalton
1815–1894
Rebecca Eskew
1812–1896
William Mc Crager Dalton
1833–1863
John Dalton
1840–
Allen Dalton
1835–1847
Malinda Ann Dalton
1838–1925
Amos Harrison Dalton
1839–
Sarah Dalton
1841–
Lucy Frances Dalton
1843–1874
Lewis Rector " Rex" Dalton
1846–1914
Smallwood Jefferson Dalton
1848–1931
Andrew Jackson Dalton
1848–1916
Rebecca Dalton
1849–
Mary Rebecca Dalton
1850–1934
Sarah "Elizabeth" Dalton
1851–1882
Robert Augustus Dalton
1854–1928
Jane Jennie Dalton
1856–

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World Events (8)

1846
Age 7
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860
Age 21
In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Age 31
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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.

Possible Related Names

Daughton
Dale
Dolton
Daulton

Sources (3)

  • Legacy NFS Source: Amos Harrison Dalton - Published information: Family genealogies: birth-name: Amos Harrison Dalton
  • Harrison Dolton in household of S Dolton, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Amos H Dalton in household of J Dalton, "United States Census, 1860"

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