Ella Bolton

Brief Life History of Ella

When Ella Bolton was born on 20 July 1853, in Utah, United States, her father, Daniel Bolton, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth "Betsy" Jane Fulwider, was 23. She married William Albert Mc Farland on 2 March 1871, in The Dalles, Wasco, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in The Dalles, Wasco, Oregon, United States in 1880 and Kent Election Precinct 4, King, Washington, United States in 1900. She died on 18 October 1915, in Diamond, Whitman, Washington, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, The Dalles, Wasco, Oregon, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Albert Mc Farland
1846–1918
Ella Bolton
1853–1915
Marriage: 2 March 1871
Luella Maud McFarland
1873–1949
Laura Dell McFarland
1877–1956
Archie L McFarland
1881–
Archie Lavell McFarland
1885–1960

Sources (13)

  • Ellen Bolton in household of Daniel Bolton, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Ella Bolton, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
  • Ella Bolton McFarland, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1856

Historical Boundaries - 1856: Wasco, Oregon Territory, United States; 1859: Wasco, Oregon, United States; 1908: Hood River, Oregon, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern England named Bolton (Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland, and Yorkshire) or from Boulton in Derbyshire and East Lothian in Scotland, from Old English bothl ‘dwelling, house’ (see Bold 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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