Brief Life History of Caroline
When Caroline Stone was born on 29 November 1804, in Cabot, Washington, Vermont, United States, her father, Mathias Stone, was 36 and her mother, Judah Fox Bangs, was 30. She married Asahel Gunn on 7 January 1829. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cabot, Caledonia, Vermont, United States in 1850. She died on 18 December 1888, in Montague, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Caroline C Gunn in household of Rodny Gunn, "United States Census, 1880"
- Caroline C. Gunn, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
- C. Gunn in entry for Rodney A. Gunn and Nellie S. Briggs, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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World Events (8)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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