Martha Mahala Nash

Brief Life History of Martha Mahala

When Martha Mahala Nash was born on 29 June 1807, in Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio, United States, her father, Stephen Nash, was 37 and her mother, Mary McBride, was 35. She married Samuel Borton III on 29 March 1827, in Jefferson, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Canton, Washington Township, Washington, Indiana, United States in 1840 and Center Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 29 November 1894, in Bourbon, Bourbon Township, Marshall, Indiana, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Samuel Borton III
1802–1856
Martha Mahala Nash
1807–1894
Marriage: 29 March 1827
Albert James Borton
1828–1886
Amos Obadiah Borton
1830–1876
Dr. Thomas Artemas Borton
1831–1911
Elizabeth Mary “Lizzie” Borton
1834–1899
Louisa A. Borton
1836–1926
Jane Borton
1843–1854
Rhoda Ann Borton
1843–1922
Israel M. Borton
1851–1852

Sources (10)

  • Martha Burton, "United States Census, 1840"
  • Mahala Nash, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
  • Martha Mahala Nash Borton, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

1814

Historical Boundaries 1814: Washington, Indiana Territory, United States 1816: Washington, Indiana, United States

1830 · The Second Great Awakening

Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, a variant of Ash by misdivision of Middle English atten ash ‘at the ash’, or a habitational name from any of the many places in England and Wales named Nash, from this phrase, as for example Nash in Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, or Shropshire. The name was established from an early date in Wales and Ireland.

Jewish: possibly an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.

History: The surname Nash was taken to Ireland from England or Wales by a family who established themselves in County Kerry in the 13th century, during the second wave of Anglo-Norman settlement. — Abner Nash (c. 1740–86), governor of NC, was of Welsh origin, his parents having emigrated to VA from Wales in 1730. His brother Francis (c. 1742–77) was a general in the Continental army; the city of Nashville, TN, was named in his honor.

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

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Bio on Find A Grave

According to a family tree on Ancestry.com, Mahala was the sixth of eleven children born to Stephen Nash (1769 MA - 1846 OH) and Mary McBride (1771-1851 OH), who married on 7 Aug 1793 in Ohio. Her sib …

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