John Stoker

Brief Life History of John

When John Stoker was born on 8 March 1817, in Madison Township, Jackson, Ohio, United States, his father, David Stoker, was 21 and his mother, Barbara Graybill, was 24. He married Jane McDaniel on 21 January 1836, in Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Davis, Utah, United States in 1850. He died on 11 June 1881, in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Stoker
1817–1881
Jane Allen
1841–1877
Marriage: 5 July 1857
Mary Ann Stoker
1862–1903
Henry Stoker
1865–1904
Lorenzo Stoker
1867–1920
Clarissa Stoker
1869–1870
Jude Stoker
1871–1872
Albert Stoker
1873–1873
Jesse Stoker
1874–1942
Harriet Eunice Stoker
1877–1877

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  • John Stoker, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (8)

1818

Illinois is the 21st state.

1819 · Panic! of 1819

With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years. 

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name for someone who lived at a place called Stoke; see Stoke .

English: in northeastern England, a variant of Stokoe .

English: in southern England, especially in Sussex and Surrey, a variant of Stocker .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Life with John Stoker was never dull

Life with John Stoker was never dull Life with John Stoker, one of Bountiful’s early settlers, a civic and church leader, might have been hard, but it was never dull, according his wife, Jane M …

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