When David Stanley Morton was born on 2 February 1846, in Stanly, North Carolina, United States, his father, John D. Morton, was 46 and his mother, Sarah A. Tucker, was 40. He married Mary Jane Tucker on 14 December 1869, in Stanly, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in North Carolina, United States in 1870 and Tyson Township, Stanly, North Carolina, United States for about 30 years. He died on 18 May 1919, in Stanly, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Silver Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Norwood, Stanly, North Carolina, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named with Old English mōr ‘moor’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. There has probably been some confusion with Morten , and perhaps also with Murton . This English name has also been established in Ireland since the 13th century.
American shortened and altered form of Swedish Mårtensson or Mortensson (see Martenson and Mortenson ), which could also be substituted for the Finnish cognate Marttinen.
French: shortened form of Moreton 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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