When Malakiah Dobson Barton was born on 18 January 1856, in Macon, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Dodson Barton, was 39 and his mother, Rebecca Ann Hudson, was 33. He married Martha Catherine Hargis about 1884. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Civil District 6, Jackson, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 1, Macon, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 14 December 1917, in Lafayette, Macon, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Butler Cemetery, Lafayette, Macon, Tennessee, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places called with Old English bere or bær ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, i.e. an outlying grange. Compare Barwick . The name is also found in Ireland, where it has been Gaelicized as de Bartún.
Polish (Bartoń); Czech and Slovak (mainly Bartoň): from a pet form of the personal name Polish Bartłomiej, Czech Bartoloměj, Slovak Bartolomej, from Latin Bartholomaeus (see Bartholomew ). This surname is also found in Germany.
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