Margaret Elizabeth Easton

Brief Life History of Margaret Elizabeth

When Margaret Elizabeth Easton was born on 5 February 1864, in Lawrence, Indiana, United States, her father, Jacob Wells Easton, was 31 and her mother, Leannah Henderson, was 25. She married Mathias Clampitt on 11 September 1884, in Lawrence, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Pleasant Run Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States for about 30 years and Plymouth, Marshall, Indiana, United States in 1920. She died on 21 November 1929, in Mitchell, Lawrence, Indiana, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Heltonville, Pleasant Run Township, Lawrence, Indiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Mathias Clampitt
1863–1934
Margaret Elizabeth Easton
1864–1929
Marriage: 11 September 1884
Celeste " Lestie" Jane Clampitt
1885–1922
Lula Clampitt
1891–
Homer Clampitt
1890–1966
Jacob William Clampitt
1893–1971
Lulu Lilly Clampitt
1896–1944

Sources (23)

  • Margaret Manwell in household of William Manwell, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Margaret E Manuel, "Indiana, Marriages, 1811-2019"
  • Margaret Easton Faubion, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

1865 · The Assassination of a President

"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places in England called Easton ‘the eastern village, estate, or manor’ (Berkshire, Cumberland, East Yorkshire, Hampshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Somerset, Wiltshire), as well as from Easton (Peeblesshire) or Easton near Bathgate (West Lothian) in Scotland. The name may also arise from any of the places called Easton which have different etymologies, in Devon, Essex, and Northamptonshire. Easton in Devon gets its first element from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Ælfrīc (Old English ælf ‘elf’ + rīc ‘power’) or Athelrīc (Old English athel ‘noble’ + rīc ‘power’). Easton Neston in Northamptonshire arises from Old English Ēadstānestūn ‘settlement of Ēadstān’, a personal name composed of the elements ēad ‘prosperity, riches’ + stān ‘stone’. Great and Little Easton in Essex are from the Old English personal name Æga + stān(as) ‘stone(s)’.

English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English (bi) este(n) tune (Old English be ēastan tūne), denoting someone who lived at the east end of a village, or from Middle English atte(n) este(n) tune ‘at (the place to) the east of the village’, a type of formation particular to Sussex. Compare Weston , Sutton , and Outen .

English: from the Middle English personal name Estan (Old English Ēadstān, from ēad ‘prosperity’ + stān ‘stone’).

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

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