When John Thomas Axton was born on 26 March 1846, in Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Thomas Peter Axton, was 69 and his mother, Elizabeth Sennett, was 40. He married Matilda Loretta Webb on 22 June 1866, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 14 December 1926, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English:
habitational name from Axton in Kent, named from the Old English personal name Acca + Old English stān ‘stone’.
(Buckinghamshire): possibly a variant of Axtell , or alternatively a habitational name from a metathesized form of a placename such as Ashton in Bainton, Northamptonshire, which is recorded as Axton in 1253.
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