Brief Life History of Benjamin
When Benjamin Easton was born on 22 August 1871, in Jefferson Township, Logan, Ohio, United States, his father, Benjamin Paddock Easton, was 33 and his mother, Susannah Lease, was 31. He married Cora Ann Spurlock on 14 February 1904, in Logan Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Lake Township, Logan, Ohio, United States in 1940. He died on 20 June 1943, in Bellefontaine, Logan, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Bellefontaine City Cemetery, Bellefontaine, Logan, Ohio, United States.
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- Benjamin Easton in household of Benjamin Easton, "United States Census, 1880"
- Benjamin Easton, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Benjamin Easton, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of the many places in England called Easton ‘the eastern village, estate, or manor’ (Berkshire, Cumberland, East Yorkshire, Hampshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Somerset, Wiltshire), as well as from Easton (Peeblesshire) or Easton near Bathgate (West Lothian) in Scotland. The name may also arise from any of the places called Easton which have different etymologies, in Devon, Essex, and Northamptonshire. Easton in Devon gets its first element from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Ælfrīc (Old English ælf ‘elf’ + rīc ‘power’) or Athelrīc (Old English athel ‘noble’ + rīc ‘power’). Easton Neston in Northamptonshire arises from Old English Ēadstānestūn ‘settlement of Ēadstān’, a personal name composed of the elements ēad ‘prosperity, riches’ + stān ‘stone’. Great and Little Easton in Essex are from the Old English personal name Æga + stān(as) ‘stone(s)’.
English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English (bi) este(n) tune (Old English be ēastan tūne), denoting someone who lived at the east end of a village, or from Middle English atte(n) este(n) tune ‘at (the place to) the east of the village’, a type of formation particular to Sussex. Compare Weston , Sutton , and Outen .
English: from the Middle English personal name Estan (Old English Ēadstān, from ēad ‘prosperity’ + stān ‘stone’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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