Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Alston, Jr. was born on 22 September 1861, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Alston, was 40 and his mother, Margaret Hall, was 39. He married Louisa Grant on 20 April 1882, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Alberta, Canada in 1906 and Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in 1911. He died on 31 December 1924, in Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 63, and was buried in Magrath, Cardston County, Alberta, Canada.
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- Joseph Alston in household of Joseph Alston, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Foster Grant - Published information: Family genealogies: birth: 29 August 1865; Willenhall, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
- Joseph William Alston, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869
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1881
Revolt against the Turco-Egyptian administration.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish:
from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æthelstān ‘noble stone’, Ælfstān ‘elf stone’, Ealdstān ‘old stone’, or Ealhstān ‘temple stone’.
habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan, these placenames all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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A Sketch of the Life of Margaret Alston Fletcher as told to her granddaughter, Gloria Fletcher Jones. October 13, 1965 Grandma Margaret Fletcher was born in American Fork in 1887. She spent par …
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