When Lelia Viola Morton was born on 15 November 1870, in Selma, Dallas, Alabama, United States, her father, Jackson Thomas Morton, was 34 and her mother, Rebecca Agnes Fuller, was 26. She married James Stonewall Terral on 18 April 1888, in Jones Prairie, Milam, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Hamilton, Hamilton, Texas, United States in 1910 and Justice Precinct 5, Hamilton, Texas, United States in 1920. She died on 29 April 1924, in Hamilton, Texas, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Shive Cemetery, Hamilton, Hamilton, Texas, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places called Mor(e)ton, named with Old English mōr ‘moor’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. There has probably been some confusion with Morten , and perhaps also with Murton . This English name has also been established in Ireland since the 13th century.
American shortened and altered form of Swedish Mårtensson or Mortensson (see Martenson and Mortenson ), which could also be substituted for the Finnish cognate Marttinen.
French: shortened form of Moreton 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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