Alice Melverta Stone

Brief Life History of Alice Melverta

When Alice Melverta Stone was born in April 1869, in Tennessee, United States, her father, James Hiram Stone, was 30 and her mother, Milla Jane Maxwell, was 28. She had at least 4 sons and 9 daughters with Joseph Asberry McCaleb. She lived in Civil District 16, Putnam, Tennessee, United States for about 40 years. She died in 1942, in Putnam, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in West Cemetery, Cookeville, Putnam, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joseph Asberry McCaleb
1862–1939
Alice Melverta Stone
1869–1942
Martha E. McCaleb
1886–1971
Manton Likurgis McCaleb
1888–1978
James Addison McCaleb
1890–1969
Lula Belle McCaleb
1893–1900
Nema Celia Ann McCaleb
1894–1919
Mary Magdalene McCaleb
1895–1977
Milbra C McCaleb
1897–1975
John Asbury McCaleb
1900–1984
Pierce Eugene McCaleb
1903–1987
Blanche Mamie McCaleb
1904–1971
Mimia Gladys McCaleb
1906–1990
Falby Sewell McCALEB
1908–1983
Alta Kathleen McCaleb
1910–1990

Sources (9)

  • A.m. Stone in household of J.h. Stone, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Alice Stories in entry for Cela Ann Clouse, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
  • Alice M Stone in household of H W Stone, "United States Census, 1870"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English ston(e) ‘stone, rock’ (Old English stān). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on stony ground, by a notable outcrop of rock, or by a stone boundary-marker or monument, or habitational, from a place called Stone, such as those in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire.

Irish (Kilkenny): adopted for Irish Ó Clochartaigh (see Clougherty ) and/or Ó Clochasaigh (see Clohessy ), and possibly several other names containing or thought to contain the element cloch ‘stone’.

Americanized form (translation into English) of various surnames in other languages, meaning ‘stone’, including Jewish Stein , Norwegian Steine, French Lapierre .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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