When Mary Elizabeth Benson was born on 24 December 1838, in Platte, Missouri, United States, her father, Jerome Messenger Benson, was 28 and her mother, Mary Polly Rhodes, was 26. She married John Byce Walton on 16 July 1853, in Santa Cruz, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States for about 2 years and San Bernardino, California, United States for about 2 years. She died on 15 June 1917, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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English: patronymic from the medieval personal name Ben(ne), a pet form of Benedict (see Benn ) + -son.
English: habitational name from a place in Oxfordshire named Benson, from Old English Benesingtūn ‘settlement (Old English tūn) associated with Benesa’, a personal name of obscure origin, perhaps a derivative of Bana meaning ‘slayer’.
Americanized form of any of various Scandinavian patronymics from the personal name Bengt, Bendt, etc., Scandinavian forms of Benedict , e.g. Swedish Bengtsson , Danish Bendtsen, Danish and Norwegian Bentsen . Compare Bensen 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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