Brief Life History of Robert Harwell
When Robert Harwell Alston was born on 21 September 1848, in Alabama, United States, his father, William Jeffreys Alston, was 47 and his mother, Harriet H Harwell, was 33. He married K Adella Cannon on 4 December 1869, in Calhoun, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in District 1378, Cobb, Georgia, United States in 1900 and Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1910. He died in 1916, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in RoseHill Cemetery, Austell, Cobb, Georgia, United States.
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Sources (11)
- Robert H Ahston in household of Thomas C Ahston, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Robert Harwell Alston - birth: 21 September 1848;
- R.H. Alston, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
Spouse and Children
1848–1916 Male
1848–1944 Female
Children (1)
1872–1972 Male
Parents and Siblings
1800–1876 Male
1814–1848 Female
Siblings (1)
1848–1916 Male
World Events (8)
1853
Age 5
1863
Age 15
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
Age 18
Name Meaning
English and Scottish:
from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æthelstān ‘noble stone’, Ælfstān ‘elf stone’, Ealdstān ‘old stone’, or Ealhstān ‘temple stone’.
habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan, these placenames all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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