Brief Life History of John
When John Barton was born on 21 February 1821, in Tennessee, United States, his father, William Barton, was 32 and his mother, Hannah Oliphant, was 34. He married Mary McFarland on 4 September 1845, in Johnson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Texas, United States in 1870. He died on 17 October 1885, in Burnet, Texas, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Old Burnet Cemetery, Hamilton, Burnet, Texas, United States.
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- John Barton, "United States Census, 1860"
- John Burton, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- John Barton, "Find A Grave Index"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1844 · German Immigration to Texas
Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.
Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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