Patience Laura Stratton

Female26 October 1866–20 January 1938

Brief Life History of Patience Laura

When Patience Laura Stratton was born on 26 October 1866, in Hardin, Iowa, United States, her father, William Stratton, was 33 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Morriel, was 28. She married Edgar Loren Button on 9 April 1885, in Alden, Hardin, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Iowa Falls, Hardin, Iowa, United States in 1910 and Grant Township, Franklin, Iowa, United States in 1930. She died on 20 January 1938, in Bradford, Franklin, Iowa, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Iowa Falls, Hardin, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Hiram B. Adams
1866–1940
Patience Laura Stratton
1866–1938
Laura Belle Button
1886–1967
Oscar David Button
1892–1933
Elva L Button
1894–1980
Hazel Clara Adams
1901–1986

Sources (19)

  • Patience L Button in household of Edgar L Button, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
  • Pacia L. Morrill, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • Laura P Adams, "Iowa, Death Records, 1904-1951"

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World Events (8)

1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.

Age 1

This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.

1867 · The Burtis Opera House

Age 1

The Burtis Opera House opened in Davenport and could easily hold an audience of 1,600. It was a widely used facility and Mark Twain filled the house when he spoke on tour in 1869. It was also used to house Susan B. Anthony when she lectured on the woman's right to vote. The Quad City Symphony Orchestra played its first concert as the new Tri-City Symphony in the Opera House. An arsonist set fire to the building on the evening of April 26, 1921, and the building was severely destroyed. The building was rebuilt but was no longer used as an opera house.

1886

Age 20

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: habitational name from any of several places called Stratton or Stretton, almost all named with Old English strǣt ‘paved road, Roman road’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. Stratton in Cornwall, which may also be a partial source of the surname, probably has as its first element Cornish stras ‘valley’.

English: variant of Sturton, a habitational name from Sturton le Steeple (Nottinghamshire), Great Sturton (Lincolnshire), Sturton by Stow (Lincolnshire), or possibly Sturton (Northumberland), all of which placenames share the same etymology and early spellings as 1 above.

Scottish: habitational name from Straiton (Ayrshire), Straiton in Liberton (Midlothian), or South Straiton in Logie (Fife), all named with Old English strǣt ‘street, Roman road’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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