Brief Life History of Mary Isabelle
When Mary Isabelle Melton was born in 1873, in Butler, Bates, Missouri, United States, her father, Henry Melton or Milton, was 21 and her mother, Nancy Susan Henson, was 21. She married Thomas B Colton on 26 September 1892, in Bates, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Hudson, Bates, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Dayton Township, Newton, Missouri, United States in 1880. She died from 1897 to 1898, in Russell Springs, Logan, Kansas, United States.
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- Mary Isabel Melton in household of Joseph F Melton, "United States Census, 1880"
- Mary J Melton, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Legacy NFS Source: Bella Mae Melton - Memory of Someone: death: from 1897 to 1898; Russell Springs, Russell Springs Township, Logan, Kansas, United States
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
1877 · Nicodemus is Founded
The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from any of various places, for example in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Yorkshire, all of which have the same origin as Middleton , with Old English middel replaced by its Old Norse equivalent methal after the Scandinavian settlement of northern and eastern England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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