Brief Life History of Alonzo
When Alonzo Colton Jr. was born on 24 May 1827, in Salem, Salem, Washington, New York, United States, his father, Alonzo Colton Sr., was 32 and his mother, Laura McCoy, was 32. He married Emma Davis on 5 November 1856, in Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1880 and Beaver, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 21 October 1906, in Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Minersville, Beaver, Utah, United States.
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- Alonzo Colton, "United States Census, 1900"
- Alonzo Colton, "Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941"
- Utah, Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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
1859
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Beaver, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Beaver, Utah, United States
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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