When Nancy W Dutton was born about 1854, in Brush Creek Township, Washington, Arkansas, United States, her father, Reverend Moses Pendleton Dutton, was 39 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Lane, was 34. She married Thomas Sharp on 13 October 1872, in Washington, Hempstead, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She died in 1875, at the age of 22.
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Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
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 (Cheshire, Lancashire, and Staffordshire): habitational name from either Dutton in Cheshire or Dutton in Lancashire. The first is named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’; the second from the Old English personal name Dudd(a) (see Dodd 1) + Old English tūn.
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