William Thomas GARTON

  General Notes:

Photo: The individual gravemarker for William Thomas Garton is at Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. In records, his year of birth is found as 1840, 1841 and 1842.

Photo, taken in 2005, from DeeAnna Allum Granston


1841 CHRISTENING, Engand, Surrey, West Horsley, on February 28

1851 CENSUS, England, Surrey, Wisley (with parents) ("Thomas," age 10, "Scholar," with parents)

1854 EMIGRATED from England to America with parents, arriving in New York in July (according to the manifest of the ship "Christianna")

1856 MIGRATED to Polk County, Iowa (may have lived in Indiana between 1854 and 1856)

1860 CENSUS, Iowa, Polk County, Lee Township, P. O. Des Moines ("Thomas," age 19, "Farm Laborer," with parents)

1863 REGISTRATION, Civil War Draft, Iowa, Polk County, Des Moines 2nd Ward, 5th Congressional District (June) ("Wm. T. Garton," age 22, "Baker," born in England) (Class 1)

1863 MARRIAGE of William Thomas Garton and Minerva Jane Allum on November 15 in Jasper County, Iowa by Samuel Westwood


See "Minerva Jane Allum" for additional information

William married Minerva Jane ALLUM, daughter of Thomas ALLUM and Matilda Ann ALLUM, on November 15, 1863 in Newton, Jasper County, Iowa. (Minerva Jane ALLUM was born in January 1842-1846 in Greene County, Pennsylvania, died in January 1931 in Washington, D. C. and was buried on January 6, 1931 in Woodland Cemetery, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa.)