When Mary Jane Wharton was born in 1822, in Sussex, Delaware, United States, her father, Benjamin Wharton, was 21 and her mother, Sarah Drollinger, was 23. She lived in Union Township, Butler, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died in 1901, in Westchester, Butler, Ohio, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in West Chester Cemetery, Westchester, Butler, Ohio, United States.
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"Isaac Reeves is credited with being Delaware's first farmer to plant over 30 acres of peaches near the city of New Castle. In over ten years, he would expand his crop to over a hundred acres. His success prompted others to plant orchards in Kent and Sussex counties. This gave the state the nickname the """"Peach State"""" for awhile."
On March 27, 1836, the Kirtland Temple was dedicated.
Delaware enacted a statewide prohibition law in 1855.
English:
habitational name from any of various places called Wharton, in Westmorland, Cheshire, and Lincolnshire, or from Warton in Lancashire, Northumberland, and Warwickshire. The Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Northumberland placenames probably derive from Old English weard ‘watch’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Cheshire and Warwickshire placenames derive from Old English wæfre ‘swamp, marshy ground’ + tūn. The Westmorland placename may derive from Old English hwearf ‘embankment, shore, wharf’ + tūn.
perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Wiverton in Nottinghamshire, derived from the Old English personal name Wīgfrith + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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