John Thomas Axton

Brief Life History of John Thomas

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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Family Time Line

John Thomas Axton
1846–1926
Matilda Loretta Webb
1849–1886
Marriage: 22 June 1866
Elizabeth Helen Axton
1867–1887
John Thomas Axton
1870–1934
Mary Ann Axton
1872–1873
Esther May Axton
1874–1959
Martha Loretta Axton
1877–1917
Margaret Kerstina Axton
1880–1916
George Samuel Axton
1884–1884

Sources (61)

  • John Asciton, "United States Census, 1880"
  • John Axton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
  • John Axton, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

1847

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

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.

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 The Amendment was later repealed.

Name Meaning

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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