Ester Rebecca Barton

Brief Life History of Ester Rebecca

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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Family Time Line

Joseph W. Bonham
1831–1912
Ester Rebecca Barton
1833–1920
Marriage: 10 August 1854
Bonham
1855–1855
Bonham
1855–1855
Mary Ellen Bonham
1856–1946
Ada Isabel Bonham
1858–1945
Elmer Ellsworth Bonham
1861–1867
Nelson Bonham
1863–1936
Emma Bonham
1868–1930
Lewis Hugh Bonham
1871–1953
Emeline Bonham
1872–

Sources (19)

  • Ester R Bonham, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Esther Rebecca Bonham, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Ester Or Esther R Barton, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"

World Events (8)

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.

1837

Historical Boundaries: 1837: Madison, Illinois, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

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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