When Catherine Norton was born in 1833, in Yancey, North Carolina, United States, her father, William Norton Sr., was 31 and her mother, Nancy Shelton, was 26. She married Charles Willis Gunter before 1850, in Madison, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Township 2 Laurel, Madison, North Carolina, United States in 1880. She died in 1895, in Madison, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Gunter Cemetery, Guntertown, Madison, North Carolina, United States.
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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.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .
Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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