When Haskel Olin Stevenson was born on 9 January 1919, in Iron, Missouri, United States, his father, Robert H Stevenson, was 46 and his mother, Della Lane Smith, was 39. He lived in Des Arc, Madison, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Union Township, Iron, Missouri, United States in 1930. He died in December 1979, at the age of 60, and was buried in Des Arc, Madison, Missouri, United States.
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Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
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English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Steven, Stephen (see Steven ) + -son. This surname is also very common in northern Ireland (especially Antrim and Down), where it has been interchangeable with Steenson and Stinson . In North America, this surname has also absorbed various European cognates, such as Danish, Norwegian, and North German Steffensen or Stephensen ; see also Stevens .
Scottish: variant of Stevenston, a habitational name from Stevenston (Ayrshire), Stevenson in Newlands (Peeblesshire), or Stevenson in Haddington (East Lothian). The placename in each case derives from the personal name Steven + Older Scots toun ‘farmstead, settlement’.
English: habitational name from Stevenstone (Devon), meaning ‘Stephen's farmstead’.
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