Brief Life History of Byron Oliver
When Byron Oliver Colton was born on 29 November 1848, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, Philander Colton, was 37 and his mother, Polly Matilda Merrill, was 31. He married Sarah Jane Clark on 24 January 1870, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1849 and lived in Uintah, Utah, United States in 1920 and Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 23 July 1930, in Maeser, Uintah, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Byron O Colton in household of George H Wilson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Byron O Colton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Byron Oliver Colton, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1965"
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1849
Historical Boundaries: 1849: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
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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