When Elijah Edmond Horton was born on 9 July 1850, in Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Edmund Horton, was 41 and his mother, Maria Meades, was 36. He married Rachel Christobel Frazier on 12 May 1872, in Wanship, Summit, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom in 1851. He died on 13 December 1915, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Wanship Cemetery, Wanship, Summit, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1859: Summit, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Summit, Utah, United States
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English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.
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