When Lucinda Stocker was born on 6 March 1846, in Forks Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Rudolph Stocker, was 36 and her mother, Mary Siglin, was 29. She married Theodore Saylor in 1867, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Hamilton Township, Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States for about 40 years and Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. She died on 27 September 1924, in Stroudsburg, Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Stroudsburg, Monroe, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker): topographic name for someone living by a tree stump (see Stock 3) or an occupational name for a tree cutter, from Middle High German stocken ‘to clear land’.
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker); Dutch: occupational name from Middle High German, Middle Dutch stocker ‘jailer’.
English: occupational name from Middle English stokker ‘one who sells stockfish’ (fish dried in the air without salt). This was the usual source of the name in medieval London, where a bylaw of 1419 stated that no stokker should board a ship to buy fish (presumably in order to forestall the market).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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