Brief Life History of Eleanor Roseltha
When Eleanor Roseltha Colton was born on 26 August 1838, in Carthage, Hancock, Illinois, United States, her father, Philander Colton, was 26 and her mother, Polly Matilda Merrill, was 20. She married Stephen Bliss Moore on 4 July 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 9 daughters. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1849 and lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Provo, Utah, Utah, United States for about 30 years. She died on 1 March 1922, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Elenor R. Mooers, "United States Census, 1900"
- Eleanor Roseltha Moore, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"
- Elenor R. Colton, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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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
1861 · Simple life to Soldiers
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
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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