Montgomery Evans Button

Brief Life History of Montgomery Evans

When Montgomery Evans Button was born on 6 January 1813, in Otisco, Onondaga, New York, United States, his father, Zebulon Button Jr., was 32 and his mother, Olive Cheney, was 26. He married Mary Bittles on 13 September 1835, in Newbury Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States in 1860 and California, United States in 1870. He died on 17 August 1895, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Montgomery Evans Button
1813–1895
Mary Bittles
1815–1896
Marriage: 13 September 1835
James H. Button
1836–1859
Button
1848–1849
Jutson Holbert Button
1839–1924
Lousia M. Button
1842–1868
Samuel Bittles Button
1844–1880
Button
1850–
Olivia Button
1854–1870
Charles M. Button
1856–1897

Sources (21)

  • M E Button, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Montgomery Evans Button - Published information: birth-name: Montgomery Evans Button
  • Montgomery Button, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"

World Events (8)

1818

Oldest listed burial : Baby Anderson Birth unknown Death 19 May 1818 Burial Pioneer Memorial Cemetery San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California, USA Plot block 2-8-7- Memorial ID 30014373

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. 

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

metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob, lump’, specialized to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner .

habitational name from Booton in Norfolk, named with either the Old English personal name Bōta or the Old Norse personal name + tūn ‘settlement’.

English:

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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John Tanner's Funeral

From Hosea Stout's diary: "Sunday 14th Apl 1850. Went to meeting in the fore-noon. Heber [C. Kimball], Geo A. [Smith] & B. Y. [Brigham Young] spoke. In the after noon P[arley] P. Pratt preached G. W. …

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