Flora Almira Stone

Brief Life History of Flora Almira

When Flora Almira Stone was born on 13 November 1859, in Westport, Westport, Essex, New York, United States, her father, Granville Stone, was 48 and her mother, Lucy Almira Butler, was 42. She married Franklin Herbert Carpenter about 1882, in Essex, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in New York, United States in 1870. She died on 10 October 1942, in Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Lakeview Cemetery, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States.

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Family Time Line

Franklin Herbert Carpenter
1861–1926
Flora Almira Stone
1859–1942
Marriage: about 1882
Percy Stone Carpenter
1883–1942
Bessie M. Carpenter
1884–1885
Mabel Lucille Carpenter
1886–1951
Clarence Willard Carpenter
1888–1946

Sources (27)

  • Flora A Stone in household of Granville Stone, "New York State Census, 1875"
  • Flora A. Carpenter, "Vermont Deaths and Burials, 1871-1965"
  • Flora E Stone in entry for Henry F Walker and Mabel Lucille Carpenter, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1864 · St. Albans Raid

St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

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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