When Elijah Button was born on 16 April 1789, in Wilbraham, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Elijah Button, was 37 and his mother, Lucy Yerrington, was 32. He married Dorothy Hannum on 29 August 1811. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Otsego, New York, United States in 1820. He registered for military service in 1831. He died on 3 April 1855, in Homer, Homer, Cortland, New York, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Homer, Homer, Cortland, New York, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1791: Otsego, New York, United States
Albany became the capital of New York in 1797. Albany is the oldest continuous settlement of the original 13 colonies.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob, lump’, specialized to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner .
habitational name from Booton in Norfolk, named with either the Old English personal name Bōta or the Old Norse personal name Bō + tūn ‘settlement’.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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