Mary Edith Barton

Brief Life History of Mary Edith

When Mary Edith Barton was born on 12 May 1890, in Nebo, Benton, Arkansas, United States, her father, James Ervin Barton, was 31 and her mother, Lucy Rose Dunning, was 18. She married Thomas Hugh Seay on 24 January 1912, in Grangeville, Idaho, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Fairview, Power, Idaho, United States in 1910. She died on 3 February 1920, in Clarkston, Asotin, Washington, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Prairie View Cemetery, Grangeville, Idaho, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Hugh Seay
1874–1944
Mary Edith Barton
1890–1920
Marriage: 24 January 1912
Thomas Champ Seay
1912–1981
William Delbert Seay
1920–2004

Sources (17)

  • Mary E Barton in household of James E Barton, "United States Census, 1910"
  • May Barton, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
  • May Seay, "Washington Death Certificates, 1907-1960"

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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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