When James H. Button was born in 1836, in Newbury Center, Geauga, Ohio, United States, his father, Montgomery Evans Button, was 23 and his mother, Mary Bittles, was 21. He lived in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States in 1850 and Mariposa, Mariposa, California, United States in 1850. He died in 1859, in Utah, United States, at the age of 23.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
"In October 1845, the newspaper Times and Seasons published a poem written by Eliza R. Snow entitled ""My Father in Heaven."" It has become the well known hymn, ""Oh My Father."" The song is only one in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymnbook that referrs to a Heavenly Mother."
metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob, lump’, specialized to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner .
habitational name from Booton in Norfolk, named with either the Old English personal name Bōta or the Old Norse personal name Bō + tūn ‘settlement’.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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