When Malinda Ann Dalton was born in 1838, in South Carolina, United States, her father, Smallwood Jefferson Dalton Sr., was 23 and her mother, Rebecca Eskew, was 26. She married Aaron Payne in 1859, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Gantt, Greenville, South Carolina, United States in 1870 and Grove Township, Greenville, South Carolina, United States for about 30 years. She died in 1925, at the age of 87, and was buried in West Gantt, Greenville, South Carolina, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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.
South Carolina is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
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 .
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