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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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
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.
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.
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 Bō + tūn ‘settlement’.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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