When Mary Amanda Hilton was born on 28 May 1837, in Tennessee, United States, her father, Ansel Lee Hilton, was 26 and her mother, Mary Ann Greer, was 21. She married Levi Woods on 3 September 1855, in Carter, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in District 10, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Cherokee, Alabama, United States in 1880. She died on 11 June 1899, at the age of 62.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
English (Lancashire):
habitational name from any of various places called Hilton (e.g. in Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire, North Yorkshire, and Westmorland), most of which derive from Old English hyll ‘hill’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some come from Old English helde ‘slope’ + tūn.
occasionally, as in the case of Ralph filius Hilton (Yorkshire 1219), perhaps from the personal name Hilton, itself a possible form of Norman Hildun, composed of the ancient Germanic elements hild ‘strife, battle’ + hūn ‘bear cub’. Compare Hilt . This English surname is present in Ireland (mainly taken to Ulster in the early 17th century, though recorded earlier in Dublin).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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