When Elijah W. Denton was born on 15 March 1815, his father, Elijah W Denton, was 32 and his mother, Sarah "Sally" Huff, was 26. He married Malvina Halterman on 18 September 1834, in White, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and District 4, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died on 22 March 1889, at the age of 74, and was buried in White Cemetery, Brown Cemetery, White, Tennessee, United States.
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English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called. The vast majority, including those in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in the Domesday Book as Dodintone meaning ‘enclosure, settlement associated with Dodda or Dudda’.
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