When Matilda Rutledge was born on 4 April 1813, in Lancaster, Lancaster, South Carolina, United States, her father, Richard Rutledge, was 42 and her mother, Winnifred Patience Elizabeth Blanche Smith, was 35. She married Samuel Baird on 4 September 1830, in Perry, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Marion Township, Doniphan, Kansas, United States in 1860 and Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 19 September 1876, in Centerville, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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English and Scottish: most probably a habitational name from Routledge Burn (Cumberland), whose name may mean ‘loud stream’, although it is possible that the stream takes its name from the surname, in which case the surname is probably from a lost or unidentified place. Routledge , the more common form in the British Isles, is found mainly on the English-Scottish borders.
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