When Martha Carolina Stout was born on 29 June 1857, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, her father, Jonathan Luther Stout, was 37 and her mother, Rachel Eller, was 29. She married John H. Roberson on 15 February 1875, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Lewis Fork Township, Wilkes, North Carolina, United States in 1870. She died on 25 March 1905, in Yancey, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 47.
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On February 7, 1862, General Burnside's expedition started with the Battle of Roanoke Island. The battle was mostly fought by the Union and Confederate Navy's. This was a Union victory.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English:
nickname from Middle English stout ‘bold, daring, brave’ (Old French estolt, estout, Anglo-Norman French estut, estot, estout ‘bold, fierce, randy, stubborn’).
perhaps occasionally a nickname from Middle English st(o)ut ‘gnat, horse-fly’ (Old English stūt, Old Norse stútr ‘gnat’), possibly used for someone with a biting tongue or for a small, quick-moving person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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