When Zachariah Taylor Chilton was born on 2 February 1847, in Prairie City, Bates, Missouri, United States, his father, John Chilton, was 38 and his mother, Rachael Jackson, was 32. He married Eliza Gonser on 1 December 1870, in Randolph, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Prairie Township, Randolph, Missouri, United States in 1920. He died on 15 December 1922, in Rochester, Olmsted, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Moberly, Randolph, Missouri, United States.
English: habitational name from any of various places called Chilton, for example in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, County Durham, Hampshire, Kent, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, and Wiltshire. The majority are shown by early forms to derive from Old English cild ‘child’ (see Child ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. One place of this name in Somerset possibly gets its first element from Old English cealc ‘chalk, limestone’, and one on the Isle of Wight from the personal name Cēola (compare Chilcott ), or from Old English ceole ‘deep valley’.
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