When Joseph Manning Tilton was born on 28 September 1890, in Pana, Christian, Illinois, United States, his father, Wirt Roswell Tilton, was 30 and his mother, Emmeline Gertrude Price, was 28. He died on 6 January 1907, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 16, and was buried in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
English (Berkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Tilton in Leicestershire, named with the Old English personal name Tila, Tilla + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
History: William Tilton came to Lynn, MA, in or before 1637. Many of his descendants were master mariners, living on Martha's Vineyard. James Tilton of DE (1745–1822) was a physician who became US surgeon general.
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