When Orson Pratt Marston was born about 1850, in Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Henry Francis Marston, was 24 and his mother, Mary Emma Clark, was 27. He married Sarah Jane Duncan on 1 September 1872, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Madison, Yolo, California, United States in 1870 and Woodland, Yolo, California, United States in 1880. He died on 15 July 1897, in Yolo, Yolo, California, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Marys Cemetery, Yolo, Yolo, California, United States.
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California was admitted into the Union on September 9, 1850, and became the 31st state.
Find a Grave Memorials shows that the earliest memorial (the earliest burials started in 1857) in this cemetery was in 1853: Effie Woodard BIRTH Mar 1853 DEATH 10 May 1853 Michigan, USA BURIAL Marys Cemetery
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: habitational name from one or other of the numerous places called Marston or Merston, in counties including Bedfordshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Gloucestershire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Sussex, and Worcestershire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English mersc ‘marsh’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
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