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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On August 15, 1887, the town of Eatonville was incorporated into Orange County, Florida. The town is significant for being one of the first all-black, self-governed municipalities in the country.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
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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