When Elizabeth M. Button was born on 28 May 1828, in Onondaga, Onondaga, New York, United States, her father, Hamlin Button, was 30 and her mother, Betsy Clute, was 28. She married Watson Button in 1843. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Gloversville, Fulton, New York, United States in 1880 and Sharon, Schoharie, New York, United States in 1910. She died in 1912, in Onondaga, Onondaga, New York, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Ames, Canajoharie, Montgomery, New York, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1838: Fulton, New York, United States
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metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob, lump’, specialized to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner .
habitational name from Booton in Norfolk, named with either the Old English personal name Bōta or the Old Norse personal name Bō + tūn ‘settlement’.
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