When Margaret A Bratton was born about 1839, in Iowa, United States, her father, James Bratton, was 27 and her mother, Phoebe Allen, was 26. She lived in Walnut Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States for about 10 years.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Iowa is the 29th state.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: habitational name from any of the places called Bratten (in Shropshire, Somerset, and Wiltshire) or from Bratton Clovelly or Bratton Fleming in Devon. The Shropshire and Somerset places are named with Old English brōc ‘brook’ + tūn ‘settlement’. The Wiltshire and Devon names are from Old English brǣc ‘newly cultivated ground’ + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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