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Elizabeth Dalton was born 1840 in Illinois the daughter of Richmond Dolton and Priscilla Hahn (1825-1861). Elizabeth was Priscilla's second child and her first daughter. Priscilla would have thirteen children in all before she wore out. Priscilla died the year following the birth of her last child. Elizabeth was already gone from the house by this time leaving her younger sister Abigail as the woman of Richmond's house.

The year of Elizabeth's birth was a leap year starting on a Wednesday. The place of her birth, Galesburg, Illinois, was founded by George Washington Gale, a Presbyterian minister from New York state, who dreamed of establishing a manual labor college which became Knox College. A manual labor college was one in which students and staff was required to spend half of each day doing manual labor in order to put food on the table and support the college. The success and growth of the city of Galesburg was tied to the railroad industry. Local businessmen were major backers of the first railroad to connect Illinois' two biggest cities - Chicago and Quincy. This rail line, not coincidentally, passed through Galesburg and is today the route of the Carl Sandburg - Illinois Zephyr Amtrak line between these two cities.

The US Federal Census for Township 13 N 1 E, Knox County, Illinois, has a record of the Richmond and Priscilla Dalton household. Richmond Dalton was a 38 year old male working as a farmer, born about 1812 in Kentucky. Priscilla Dalton was a 28 year old female who was born about 1822 in Iowa (Sic.). All the children listed were born in Illinois. Joseph Dalton was a 10 year old male who was born about 1840. Elizabeth Dalton was a 7 year old female who was born about 1843. Abigail Dalton was a 6 year old female who was born about 1844. Euphamia Dalton was a 5 year old female who was born about 1845. Lucetta Dalton was a 4 year old female who was born about 1846. Alis Dalton was a 3 year old female who was born about 1847. Nahamison Dalton was a 2 year old male born about 1848. Theron Dalton was a ten month old male born in 1849. Joseph, Elizabeth, Abigail, Euphamia, and Lucetta had attended school in the census year.

The family was living in Township 13 N 1 E, Knox County, Illinois. The "Township 13 N 1 E" is a location in Illinois using the township and range system called the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). It is used by the US government to identify the location of a piece of property in the US. Surveyors had drawn a base line and a Principal Meridian and the township designations told you how far north or south of the baseline, and range designations told you how far east or west of the Principal Meridian your property was. So, when someone gave you this description your could determine where it was.

On 28 Dec 1857 Elizabeth Dolton and Green Atterbury were married in DeKalb County, Missouri. This was likely the first marriage for both of them.

In 1857 James Buchanan became president of the United States. On March 6 of that year the Supreme Court of the United States ruled, in the Dred-Scott Decision, that Blacks were not citizens and slaves could not sue for freedom. There were three armed conflicts going on at this time. "Bleeding Kansas" (1854-1860) and the Third Seminole War (1855-1858) were at their height. The Utah War (1857-1858), also known as the Mormon War, was just getting started. The Panic of 1857 resulted in a recession that closed many banks and businesses and had people in the streets demanding their money. It was a difficult time to get married.

Green Berry Atterbury (Greenberry, James, William) was born in Missouri, we don't know for sure when. There are two birthdates extant for Green Atterbury. The proposed birthdates are:
11 April 1845 in DeKalb County, Missouri
10 Sep 1839 in Howard County, Missouri.
Green Atterbury died 13 Jan 1929.

On March 2, 1862, he enlisted in the Federal Army, joining the Missouri State Militia (Cavalry) and became adjutant of the regiment with the rank of first lieutenant. He served in Company H, First Regiment, Missouri State Militia Calvary.

After the war he went back to farming until 1885. In 1885 he went into the retail business as junior partner with Mr. Meek in Meek and Atterbury Merchants at Maysville.

Children of Green Atterbury and Elizabeth Dolton are:

According to Isom Atterbury's passport application he clearly spells his name Isom F. Atterbury. He indicates he was 35 years of age, five feet eight inches in height, with a broad forehead, blue-gray eyes, straight nose, moustache, full beard, brown hair, and fair complexion. He says his permanent residence is at Maysville, Missouri where he followed the occupation of lawyer. His FindAGrave memorial record says that be went to South Africa to become involved in the real estate business. After forty-one years in South Africa he died in Johannesburg as a result of pneumonia and cardiac failure. He was seventy-six years old at the time of his death.

Documentation of the birth of Manford Atterbury is taken from the bottom of the page found at http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/r/a/James-E-Branch/GENE10-0032.html. There is no source given for this information. No other documentation found. It may be he died at birth or in infancy. Manford does not appear in the 1860 US Federal Census with his parents and brother Isom. His older brother Isom was born in 1858 and their mother died in 1863. Isom may have named his first son after this lost younger brother. Isom and Ida Atterbury's first son was born 1 Nov 1889 in Maysville, MO., and they named him Manford Atterbury.

Another alternative is that a genealogist got the generations mixed up and Isom Atterbury never had a brother. Perhaps the only Manford Atterbury is Isom's son.

There is another Manford Atterbury that is well documented in the census and elsewhere about this general time, but he is the son of Simon (aka Simeon, Semen) Atterberry and Mary Caroline Dabury and was born abt 1857. This Manford's full given name was Erasmus Manford Atterbury and he eventually moved to California where he died 16 Dec 1943 at the age of about 90 years.

Elizabeth (Dolton) Atterbury died August 1863 in DeKalb County, Missouri. She was only 23 years of age and left her husband with one or two young children to care for as he tried to make a living for the family.

Four years after Elizabeth died Green Atterbury married Catherine Deppen on 18 Nov 1867 in Buchanan County, Missouri. She was born 6 May 1847 in Stark County, Ohio and died 25 Sep 1926, in St. Joseph, Missouri. Catherine was also known as: Catherine Dippen and Catherine Depew

Children of Green Atterbury and Catherine Deppend are:
iv. Etta Atterbury, born between 16 Aug 1867-1868
v. Elmer D. Atterbury, born January 18, 1872
vi. Leola Atterbury, born 1874; married George W. Eastin