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David Peregrine Fulton

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David Peregrine Fulton

Birth
Death
18 Jul 1831 (aged 5)
Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA
Burial
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map
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Birth: 2nd of nine known children, three to adulthood.

Second child to the fourth and last Territorial Governor, the first Arkansas United States Senator and wife, his first cousin.

His paternal grandparents were Irishman David Fulton and wife Elizabeth Savin, married 23 JUL 1794 in Cecil county, Maryland. David was 2nd Mayor of Little Rock in 1835, a Judge in 1836-38 and appointed "Surveyor General of Public Lands in Arkansas" by President Martin Van Buren in 1838, died 1843.

Death: in Pulaski county, Arkansas. (shared dateless stone with younger sister Mary Jane)

OBITUARY: courtesy of Pris Weathers

Arkansas Gazette
07/20/1831
Vol. XII No. 30 - Whole No. 602

DIED - In this town, on Monday evening last, after an illness of about five days, David Peregrine, an interesting and promising child, only son of William S. Fulton, Esq. Secretary and Acting Governor of the Territory of Arkansas, aged 5 years, 6 months, and 18 days.


Father: Senator William Savin Fulton, b: 2 JUN, 1795, Cecil County, Maryland.
Mother: Matlida Frances Nowland b: 4 AUG 1803 Maryland.
Birth: 2nd of nine known children, three to adulthood.

Second child to the fourth and last Territorial Governor, the first Arkansas United States Senator and wife, his first cousin.

His paternal grandparents were Irishman David Fulton and wife Elizabeth Savin, married 23 JUL 1794 in Cecil county, Maryland. David was 2nd Mayor of Little Rock in 1835, a Judge in 1836-38 and appointed "Surveyor General of Public Lands in Arkansas" by President Martin Van Buren in 1838, died 1843.

Death: in Pulaski county, Arkansas. (shared dateless stone with younger sister Mary Jane)

OBITUARY: courtesy of Pris Weathers

Arkansas Gazette
07/20/1831
Vol. XII No. 30 - Whole No. 602

DIED - In this town, on Monday evening last, after an illness of about five days, David Peregrine, an interesting and promising child, only son of William S. Fulton, Esq. Secretary and Acting Governor of the Territory of Arkansas, aged 5 years, 6 months, and 18 days.


Father: Senator William Savin Fulton, b: 2 JUN, 1795, Cecil County, Maryland.
Mother: Matlida Frances Nowland b: 4 AUG 1803 Maryland.


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