When Thomas Thaddeus Morton was born in 1839, in Nicholas, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Throckmorton, was 42 and his mother, Amelia Young, was 35. He married Mary Ann Cooper on 2 April 1858, in Nicholas, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 3 July 1864, in Gallipolis, Gallia, Ohio, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Gallipolis, Gallia, Ohio, United States.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Hollywood Cemetery was established in 1847 in Richmond Virginia. This is where Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler are buried. During the Civil War it became the largest military interments and a large section dedicated to military burials. Jefferson Davis a well known Confederate is also buried here. Many other notable people are also buried here.
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named with Old English mōr ‘moor’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. There has probably been some confusion with Morten , and perhaps also with Murton . This English name has also been established in Ireland since the 13th century.
American shortened and altered form of Swedish Mårtensson or Mortensson (see Martenson and Mortenson ), which could also be substituted for the Finnish cognate Marttinen.
French: shortened form of Moreton 3.
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