Belva Pearl Stone

Brief Life History of Belva Pearl

When Belva Pearl Stone was born on 30 September 1888, in Portland, Wayne Township, Jay, Indiana, United States, her father, Ezekial Stone, was 29 and her mother, Emily Brinkerhoof, was 31. She married Arthur Lewis Teeter on 24 June 1913, in Monticello, Union Township, White, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in San Francisco, California, United States in 1920 and Brooklyn Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States in 1940. She died on 31 January 1978, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Arthur Lewis Teeter
1885–1970
Belva Pearl Stone
1888–1978
Marriage: 24 June 1913
Elizabeth J Teeter
1920–
June Pearl Teeter
1921–

Sources (12)

  • Belva Stone in household of Jacob H Miller, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Belva L Stone, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
  • Belva Stone Teeter, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"

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1912 · The Girl Scouts

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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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