When Solomon Wilbur Denton was born in April 1816, in Fitchville, Huron, Ohio, United States, his father, Jabez Denton, was 50 and his mother, Rachel Green, was 47. He married Frances M. "Fanny" Stanley on 30 July 1835, in Geauga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Oakland, Michigan, United States in 1860 and Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan, United States in 1890. He died on 19 March 1864, in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Lexington National Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, United States.
English: habitational name from any of numerous places so called. The vast majority, including those in Cambridgeshire, Cumbria, Dumfries, Durham, Kent, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Oxfordshire, Sussex, and Yorkshire are named from Old English denu ‘valley’ (see Dean 1) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. An isolated example in Northamptonshire appears in the Domesday Book as Dodintone meaning ‘enclosure, settlement associated with Dodda or Dudda’.
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