Olive M Holton

Female7 June 1875–9 October 1957

Brief Life History of Olive M

When Olive M Holton was born on 7 June 1875, in Hinsdale, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Eleon Lyman Holton, was 28 and her mother, Ella Louise Moore, was 23. She married George William Hughes on 11 September 1893, in Vermont, United States. She lived in Brattleboro Retreat, Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States in 1900 and Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States in 1930. She died on 9 October 1957, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.

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Arthur Barnett Franklin
1877–1934
Olive M Holton
1875–1957
Marriage: 27 June 1906

Sources (23)

  • Olive Holton, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Olive Holton, "New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
  • Olive M Holton, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    27 June 1906Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States
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    Siblings (3)

    World Events (8)

    1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.

    Age 1

    The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.

    1876 · The Battle of Little Bighorn

    Age 1

    An armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry of the US Army. The battle was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.

    1898 · War with the Spanish

    Age 23

    After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from any of various places called Holton, such as those in Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Dorset, and Somerset. The Oxfordshire and Somerset placenames derive from Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, while the Suffolk placename comes from the Old English personal name Hōla + tūn. The Dorset placename derives from Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ or holt ‘wood, grove, thicket’ + tūn.

    Irish: altered form of O'Haltahan, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUltacháin ‘descendant of Ultachán’, a diminutive of Ultach ‘Ulsterman’. This is a rare Fermanagh surname, sometimes Anglicized as Nolan .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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