Brief Life History of William Marion
When William Marion Stone was born on 17 November 1872, in Monterey, California, United States, his father, John William Stone, was 30 and his mother, Mary Hill, was 23. He married Nora Lyman on 5 June 1901, in Dos Palos, Merced, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Tres Pinos, San Benito, California, United States for about 40 years. He died on 8 September 1960, in San Benito, California, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Hollister, San Benito, California, United States.
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- William Stone, "United States 1950 Census"
- William Marion Stone, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Wm. M. Stome, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1874
Historical Boundaries: 1874: San Benito, California, United States
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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