Brief Life History of Simeon
When Simeon Button was born in 1743, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Jedidiah Button, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth Newberry, was 25. He died on 21 June 1814, at the age of 71.
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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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