When Ester Rebecca Barton was born on 13 December 1833, in Lebanon, St. Clair, Illinois, United States, her father, Hugh Barton, was 34 and her mother, Sarah Nichols, was 32. She married Joseph W. Bonham on 10 August 1854, in Lebanon, St. Clair, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in St. Clair, Illinois, United States for about 20 years and Saint Jacob, Madison, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 30 August 1920, in Highland, Madison, Illinois, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Saint Jacob, Madison, Illinois, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1837: Madison, Illinois, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.
Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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