When Margaret Malinda Elston was born on 14 January 1844, in Clay Township, Hamilton, Indiana, United States, her father, Micajah Elston, was 35 and her mother, Elsie Tanner, was 34. She married Oliver Gifford on 12 November 1863, in Hamilton, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Morris Township, Carroll, Missouri, United States in 1860 and Union Township, Boone, Indiana, United States in 1870. She died on 17 March 1923, in Westfield Washington Township, Hamilton, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Eagle Creek Cemetery, Westfield Washington Township, Hamilton, Indiana, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
habitational name from any of several places called Elston (in Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, and Wiltshire). Elston in Lancashire comes from the Old English female personal name Æthelsige (composed of the elements athel ‘noble’ + sige ‘victory’) + Old English tūn ‘settlement’. Elston in Nottinghamshire is named with the Old Norse personal name Eiláfr (meaning ‘everlasting’) + tūn ‘settlement’, and Elston in Wiltshire is so named from Elias Giffard, holder of the manor in the 12th century.
from the Middle English personal name Elstan (Old English Ealdstān ‘old’ + ‘stone’ or Ealhstān ‘shrine, temple’ + ‘stone’). Compare Alston .
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