Brief Life History of Charles Edwin
When Charles Edwin Colton was born on 20 October 1834, in Utica, Macomb, Michigan, United States, his father, Philander Colton, was 23 and his mother, Polly Matilda Merrill, was 17. He married Mary Ann Kelting on 2 April 1854, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Burbank, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1910 and First American Baptist Church, Imperial, California, United States in 1916. He died on 23 November 1916, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Charles Colton, "United States Census, 1870"
- Chas Edwin Colton, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Charles Edwin Colton, "United States Mormon Battalion Pension Applications, 1846-1923"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire): habitational name from any of various places called Colton in England. Examples in Norfolk, Staffordshire, and North Yorkshire are from the Old English personal name Cola (or the cognate Old Norse Koli; see Cole 2) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. The place so named in Somerset has as its first element the Old English personal name Cūla (of uncertain origin). The one in Cumbria has a river name apparently derived from a Celtic word meaning ‘hazel’. This English name is also common in Ireland; it was the name of a bishop of Derry in 1397. There seems also to have been confusion with Culliton .
Scottish and Irish (Monaghan): shortened and altered form of Gaelic Mac Haldan, ‘son of Haldan’, see Haldane .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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