Mary Olive Stone

Brief Life History of Mary Olive

When Mary Olive Stone was born on 9 March 1782, in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Thomas Stone, was 24 and her mother, Mary Rawson, was 16. She married Nathaniel Temple on 1 November 1806, in Heath, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 9 January 1836, in United States, at the age of 53.

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Family Time Line

Nathaniel Temple
1775–1834
Mary Olive Stone
1782–1836
Marriage: 1 November 1806
John S Temple
1807–
David Temple
1809–1892
Elizabeth "Betsy" Temple
1811–1905
Lucinda Temple
1814–1821
Mary Reed Temple
1817–1893
Erastus Nathaniel Temple
1819–1869
Lucinda Temple
1821–
Jonathan Temple
1822–1862
Maria Temple
1829–1920

Sources (30)

  • Mary Stone, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
  • Lucinda Temple in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
  • Polly Stone, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

World Events (8)

1783 · A Free America

The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

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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