Grace Lydia Waterman

Brief Life History of Grace Lydia

When Grace Lydia Waterman was born on 8 October 1886, in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont, United States, her father, Truman Jay Waterman, was 56 and her mother, Almira Lois West, was 23. She married Harvey William Hawthorne on 1 October 1907, in Strafford, Orange, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in United States in 1949 and Winter Park, Orange, Florida, United States in 1950. She died on 13 July 1978, in Barre City, Washington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Strafford Cemetery, Strafford, Orange, Vermont, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harvey William Hawthorne
1884–1935
Grace Lydia Waterman
1886–1978
Marriage: 1 October 1907
Hawthorne
1911–1911
Jay Waterman Hawthorne
1915–2006
Maxie Fannie Hawthorn
1918–1998

Sources (36)

  • Grace A Heldreth, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Grace W. Hawthorn, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
  • Grace Hildreth, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-2008" (Death citation, 1978)

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1887 · Eatonville is Incorporated

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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

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1910 · The BSA is Made

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Name Meaning

English and Dutch: occupational name for a boatman or ferryman, or a water carrier (the English name was perhaps sometimes synonymous with Middle English waterlader or waterberer, denoting a man who carried fresh water from a spring or stream for drinking or domestic use), or a topographic name for someone who lived by a pond or stretch of water (see Water 2).

English: occupational name from the Middle English personal name Water or Walter + man, meaning ‘servant of Wa(l)ter’.

Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Wassermann or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Wasserman .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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