When Ava Marie Atherton was born on 10 March 1871, in Nelson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Milton Wesley Atherton, was 43 and her mother, Mary Ann Beeler, was 32. She married Anthony Lee Gaslin on 6 March 1892, in Jellico, Campbell, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Nelsonville, Nelson, Kentucky, United States in 1920 and Magisterial District 3, Nelson, Kentucky, United States in 1930. She died on 2 March 1936, in Nelson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Nelson, Kentucky, United States.
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English: habitational name from a place near Manchester named Atherton, from the Old English personal name Æthelhere + Old English tūn ‘settlement’.
English: habitational name from Hatherton, Staffordshire, from Old English haguthorn + dūn ‘the hill where hawthorn grows’.
English (East Anglia): topographic name from Middle English at ther doune ‘(dweller) on the hill’ (Old English æt thǣre dūne). Through confusion of -don and -ton, Attherdoune was altered to Atherton, Adderton, and Atterton.
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