Brief Life History of Harriet Matilda
When Harriet Matilda Stead was born on 24 July 1871, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, her father, Thomas Stead, was 48 and her mother, Mary Francis Dillon, was 26. She married William Barton Goldsmith on 3 December 1905, in Cleburne, Johnson, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Justice Precinct 4, Johnson, Texas, United States in 1900 and Johnson, Texas, United States in 1910. She died on 23 February 1935, in Texas, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Johnson, Texas, United States.
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- Hattie M Goldsmith in household of W B Goldsmith, "United States Census, 1910"
- Harriet Stead, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Texas, Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965
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1876 · Segregation Laws Are Passed
A new state constitution was passed in 1876, announcing the segregation of schools.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
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Name Meaning
English (West Yorkshire and Lancashire):
in Yorkshire and Lancashire, a habitational name primarily from Stead near Storiths in Hazlewood (Skipton, Yorkshire), which became a grange of Bolton Priory. Alternative origins might include Stead Farm in Nether Hoyland (Yorkshire), and Stidd in Ribchester (Lancashire), but it is not known if this latter produced a surviving hereditary surname. Across England, the name may arise from one or other minor places which were also named with Middle English stede ‘farm, estate; hamlet’ (Old English stede); for example, The Stude in Church Lawford (Warwickshire). The word was especially common in minor names and field names in south and southeastern England.
variant of Steed .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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