Matilda Jane Zumwalt

Brief Life History of Matilda Jane

When Matilda Jane Zumwalt was born on 11 March 1840, in St. Charles, Saint Charles, Missouri, United States, her father, Isaac Newton Zumwalt, was 24 and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Crow, was 24. She married Franklin Berkley Inlow on 23 December 1858, in Polk, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Marion, Marion, Oregon, United States in 1850 and Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States in 1870. She died on 29 August 1877, in Eagle Point, Jackson, Oregon, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, Jackson, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

Franklin Berkley Inlow
1828–1904
Matilda Jane Zumwalt
1840–1877
Marriage: 23 December 1858
Isabella Inlow
1860–1861
Frank Belton Inlow
1865–1949
John Herbert Inlow
1869–1934
Nada Ambre Inlow
1872–1894
Ada Amazon Inlow
1874–1903

Sources (7)

  • M J Inloe in household of F B Inloe, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Matilda Jane Zumwalt, "Oregon, County Marriages, 1851-1975"
  • Mathilda Zumwalt, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"

World Events (7)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1852

EARLIEST RECORDED MARKER: William M Moore BIRTH 1829 DEATH 1852 (aged 22–23) BURIAL Ashland Cemetery Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon, USA MEMORIAL ID 175764325 · View Source

1859 · Oregon Becomes a State

Oregon became the 33rd state admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859. 

Name Meaning

Americanized form of Swiss German Zumwald: topographic name for someone who lived ‘by the forest’, from Middle High German walt ‘woods, forest’ + the fused preposition and article zum (zu dem) ‘at the’. Compare Sumwalt and Zumalt .

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

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