Brief Life History of Stella May
When Stella May Post was born on 29 January 1881, in Oregon, United States, her father, George Lucian Post, was 24 and her mother, Alvaretta Vanetta Hayhurst, was 20. She married Merrill Francis Hanville on 21 May 1898, in Wallowa, Wallowa, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Judicial Township 3, Fresno, California, United States in 1940 and Turlock, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1954. She died on 16 July 1969, in Carson City, Ormsby, Nevada, United States, at the age of 88.
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- Stella M Sanville, "United States Census, 1940"
- Stella M. Post, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Stella May Post Hanville, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1898 · Oregon Historical Society
The Oregon Historical Society was founded on December 17, 1898, for the “collection, preservation, exhibition, and publication of material of a historical character, especially that relating to the history of Oregon and of the United States.”
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Name Meaning
North German, Danish, and Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived near a post or pole (Middle Low German, Middle Dutch post, from Latin postis), presumably one of some significance, e.g. serving as a landmark or boundary, or a habitational name from any of several places in northern Germany called Post, probably from this word.
North German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a messenger or mailman, from post ‘mail’.
Probably also an altered form of German Pfost .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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