When James Asbury Alston was born on 10 January 1815, in Elbert, Georgia, United States, his father, John Alston, was 24 and his mother, Charity Tait, was 25. He married Rebecca Jane Norwood on 12 April 1838, in Monroe, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 9 June 1858, in Monroe, Georgia, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Culloden City Cemetery, Culloden, Monroe, Georgia, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1821: Monroe, Georgia, United States
Oldest grave seen in the memorials list
English and Scottish:
from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æthelstān ‘noble stone’, Ælfstān ‘elf stone’, Ealdstān ‘old stone’, or Ealhstān ‘temple stone’.
habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan, these placenames all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
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