Orton Family - St. Charles, Missouri MO
Looking for any information on the John Orton b. abt 1795 and Temperance Smelser Orton b. abt 1799 family in St. Charles County, Missouri during the period of about 1810 thru 1830.St. Charles is just east of present day St. Louis and sits right on the Mississippi River.Temperance and John may possibly have been in the community of Portage des Sioux just a little north of the Smeltzer Ferry between Alton, Illinois and St. Charles.They had two children, Mary Ann Orton and Thomas Orton both born in the 1820's we believe.They were associated with the Samuel Beeman family and the Nathaniel Overall family as well.I believe Temperance's sister Ruth married James Sullivan.And sister Catherine Smelser married Henry Ryan (Ryon).