Lydia Stone

Brief Life History of Lydia

When Lydia Stone was born in 1849, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States, her father, Ruben Floyd Henderson Stone, was 45 and her mother, Phoetma "Fetney" Hurst, was 37. She married John Henry Webb on 23 December 1886, in Claiborne, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Civil District 8, Claiborne, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1896, in Bell, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 47.

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Family Time Line

John Henry Webb
1852–1908
Lydia Stone
1849–1896
Marriage: 23 December 1886
Hattie F Webb
1887–1971
Catherine "Kate" Webb
1889–1967
William Harrison Webb
1891–1977

Sources (6)

  • Lydia Stone in household of Fetney Stone, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Lidda Stone, "Tennessee, State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
  • Lydia Ann Stone in entry for Catherine E Heath, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1967"

World Events (8)

1850 · 8th Most Populated State

According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.

1861

Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

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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