Brief Life History of Adam
When Adam Stover Jr was born on 17 May 1772, in Dutchess, New York, United States, his father, Johaan Adam Stover, was 30 and his mother, Mary Catherine Woolweaver, was 30. He married Ezilpha Moon on 21 December 1794, in Dutchess, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 17 November 1847, in Norwich, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 75, and was buried in Norwich, Oxford, Ontario, Canada.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Adam Stover - Memory of Someone: Memory of a relative: birth-name: Adam Stover Jr.
- Adam Stover, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
New York is the 11th state.
1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Name Meaning
North German (Stöver): from Middle Low German (bad)stover ‘bather, barber, worker at a public bathhouse’, mainly an occupational name, but occasionally perhaps a nickname for a dedicated bather. Compare Stoever .
English: variant of Stopher with intervocalic voicing of /f/ to /v/.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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