When William Mc Crager Dalton was born in 1833, in South Carolina, United States, his father, Smallwood Jefferson Dalton Sr., was 18 and his mother, Rebecca Eskew, was 21. He married Bettie Beam in 1857, in South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Chickamauga, Walker, Georgia, United States in 1850 and Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States in 1850. He died on 5 January 1863, at the age of 30.
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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