Mary Ingham Stone

Brief Life History of Mary Ingham

When Mary Ingham Stone was born on 8 December 1815, in Wyalusing, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Raphael Stone, was 27 and her mother, Sarah Ingham, was 28. She married Elmore Horton in 1843, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Wilmot Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Wilmot, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 3 June 1883, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Family Time Line

Elmore Horton
1817–1889
Mary Ingham Stone
1815–1883
Marriage: 1843
George Hamilton Horton
1844–1914
Sarah Nancy Horton
1846–1916
Horton
1849–1849
Horton
1849–1849
Rowena Eliza Horton
1850–1920

Sources (10)

  • Mary Horton in household of Elmer Horton, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Mary Stone, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Births and Baptisms, 1520-1999"
  • Mary Stone, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"

World Events (8)

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1820 · Making States Equal

The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

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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