Harriet Emily Colton

Brief Life History of Harriet Emily

When Harriet Emily Colton was born on 24 July 1836, in Utica, Macomb, Michigan, United States, her father, Philander Colton, was 24 and her mother, Polly Matilda Merrill, was 18. She married Daniel Webster Jones on 29 January 1852, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1870 and Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1880. She died on 12 February 1884, in Tonto Basin, Gila, Arizona, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Gisela, Gila, Arizona, United States.

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Family Time Line

Daniel Webster Jones
1830–1915
Harriet Emily Colton
1836–1884
Marriage: 29 January 1852
Mary Emily Jones
1853–1919
Frances Syrena Jones
1854–1855
Daniel Philemon Jones
1856–1935
Wiley Cloyd Jones
1858–1885
Edwin William Jones
1860–1922
Eleanor Ann Jones
1863–1912
Wesley Lamoni Jones
1865–1909
Byron David Jones
1867–1897
Marguerite Elvina "Vina" Jones
1870–1938
Lorenzo Ernest Jones
1872–1886
Franklin Colton Jones
1874–1894
Almira Elisa Jones
1876–1923
Milton Montgomery Jones
1878–1882
George Albert Jones
1880–1884

Sources (52)

  • Emily Jones in household of Daniel Jones, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Harriet Emily Colton - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Harriet Emily Colton
  • Harriet Emily Colton Jones, "BillionGraves Index"

World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1847

Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States

1849

Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States

Name Meaning

English (Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire): habitational name from any of various places called Colton in England. Examples in Norfolk, Staffordshire, and North Yorkshire are from the Old English personal name Cola (or the cognate Old Norse Koli; see Cole 2) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. The place so named in Somerset has as its first element the Old English personal name Cūla (of uncertain origin). The one in Cumbria has a river name apparently derived from a Celtic word meaning ‘hazel’. This English name is also common in Ireland; it was the name of a bishop of Derry in 1397. There seems also to have been confusion with Culliton .

Scottish and Irish (Monaghan): shortened and altered form of Gaelic Mac Haldan, ‘son of Haldan’, see Haldane .

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

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Biography of Harriet Emily Colton (July 24, 1836 - February 12, 1884) and Daniel Webster Jones (August 26, 1830 - April 19, 1915)

Harriet Emily Colton and Daniel Webster Jones are the parents of Mary Emily Jones, who is the wife of Justus Perry Jordan, and they are the parents of Roseltha Ann Jordan, who married Ernest Parrish …

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