When Elizabeth Orton was born on 1 June 1826, in Clinton, Illinois, United States, her father, William Reed Orton, was 24 and her mother, Rebecca Huey, was 19. She married Silas Schellinger Smith on 9 February 1844, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States in 1880 and Black Rock, Millard, Utah, United States in 1900. In 1880, at the age of 54, her occupation is listed as keeping house. She died on 27 November 1902, in Spring Glen, Carbon, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Meadow Cemetery, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1827: Hancock, Illinois, United States
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English: habitational name from any of various places called Orton in Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, and Westmorland. All those in England share a second element from Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’, but the first element in each case is more difficult to determine. Examples in Cambridgeshire and Warwickshire are on the banks of rivers, so these are probably derived from Old English ōfer ‘riverbank’; in other cases it is impossible to distinguish between ofer ‘ridge’ and ufera ‘upper’. Orton in Westmorland is probably formed with the Old Norse byname Orri ‘black-cock’ (the male black grouse). Orton near Fochabers, Scotland, is of uncertain etymology.
Americanized form of Norwegian Årtun: habitational name from the farm name Årtun, found in six places, e.g. in the province of Rogaland, a compound of the genitive case singular of Old Norse á ‘small river’ and tún ‘farm yard (surrounded by buildings)’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesElizabeth was born in 1826 in Lebanon, Clinton County, Illinois. Her parents William Reed Orton and Rebecca Huey had moved there from North Carolina. In 1835 her family joined the Church of Jesus Chri …
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