Orson Pratt Marston

Brief Life History of Orson Pratt

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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Family Time Line

Orson Pratt Marston
1850–1897
Sarah Jane Duncan
1856–1901
Marriage: 1 September 1872
Leroy Marston
1874–
Herbert Valentine Marston
1876–1952
Noel Wilbert Marston
1878–1945
Annie Laura Marston
1880–1949
Edward Roy Marston
1882–1952
Harriet V. Marston
1884–1970
Gertrude Ella Marston
1888–1971

Sources (20)

  • Orson Marston in household of William Marston, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Orson Marston or Maston, "California, County Marriages, 1849-1957"
  • Orson R. Marston, "California, Deaths and Burials, 1776-2000"

World Events (8)

1850 · California Is Admitted to Union

California was admitted into the Union on September 9, 1850, and became the 31st state.

1853

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

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

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’.

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

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