Charles Gilbert Bolton

Brief Life History of Charles Gilbert

When Charles Gilbert Bolton was born on 11 February 1849, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Curtis Edwin Bolton, was 36 and his mother, Ellen Coil Merritt, was 19. He married Priscilla Miranda Osguthorpe on 5 February 1873, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to World in 1889 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1850 and Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880. He died on 17 September 1912, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Elysian Burial Gardens, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Charles Gilbert Bolton
1849–1912
Priscilla Miranda Osguthorpe
1852–1929
Marriage: 5 February 1873
Horace Bolton
1875–1875
John Gilbert Bolton
1876–1961
Lydia Roper Bolton
1879–1943
Mabel Bolton
1881–1883
Charles Merritt Bolton
1884–1962
Rufus Gerald Bolton
1890–1918
Mervin Curtis Bolton
1895–1973

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  • Charles Bolton, "United States Census, 1850"
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1850

Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States* 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States *Renamed Salt Lake in 1868

1851

Per Find a Grave Memorials, the earliest burial in this cemetery was in 1851. Mary Susan Johnson BIRTH\t27 Nov 1850 Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA DEATH\t10 Mar 1851 (aged 3 months) Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA BURIAL\t Elysian Burial Gardens Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA MEMORIAL ID\t65119048

1866 · The First Civil Rights Act

The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places in northern England named Bolton (Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland, and Yorkshire) or from Boulton in Derbyshire and East Lothian in Scotland, from Old English bothl ‘dwelling, house’ (see Bold 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.

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

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Charles Gilbert Bolton - History - 1849

This history was found in the genealogical records of granddaughter, Helen Claire Bolton (Gustaveson). Charles Gilbert Bolton was born 11 February 1849 in Salt Lake City, Utah, His father …

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