Brief Life History of Lousia M.
When Lousia M. Button was born in 1842, in Newbury Center, Geauga, Ohio, United States, her father, Montgomery Evans Button, was 29 and her mother, Mary Bittles, was 27. She married Reuben James Anderson on 31 March 1861, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Mariposa, Mariposa, California, United States in 1850 and Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 10 August 1868, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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Sources (13)
- S M Button in household of M E Button, "United States Census, 1850"
- Louisa Button, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Louisa M. Button Anderson, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
1850 · California Is Admitted to Union
California was admitted into the Union on September 9, 1850, and became the 31st state.
Name Meaning
metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of buttons, from Old French bo(u)ton ‘knob, lump’, specialized to mean ‘button’. Compare Butner .
habitational name from Booton in Norfolk, named with either the Old English personal name Bōta or the Old Norse personal name Bō + tūn ‘settlement’.
English:
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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