Brief Life History of Harriet
When Harriet Stone was born on 28 March 1837, in Richmond, Shipton, Buckingham, Lower Canada, British North America, her father, Salva Stone, was 49 and her mother, Almira Gibbs, was 38. She married John Charles Gibson III on 22 July 1852, in Berkshire, Franklin, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died on 18 September 1865, in Montgomery, Franklin, Vermont, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Montgomery, Franklin, Vermont, United States.
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- Harriet Goodspead in household of Rufus Goodspead, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Harriet Stone - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Harriet Stone
- Harriet L. Stone Goodspeed, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (3)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1864 · St. Albans Raid
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
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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