Ida Lawanda Stone

Female17 March 1852–1920

Brief Life History of Ida Lawanda

When Ida Lawanda Stone was born on 17 March 1852, in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, John Stone Jr, was 25 and her mother, Charlotte B. Harrington, was 21. She married William Shettlewood Clapp on 14 December 1866, in Millbury, Millbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Westborough, Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1900. She died in 1920, at the age of 68, and was buried in Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Shettlewood Clapp
1849–1912
Ida Lawanda Stone
1852–1920
Marriage: 14 December 1866
Ida Elizabeth Clapp
1868–1870
Frederick William Clapp
1872–1907
Estella Maud Clapp
1874–1916

Sources (26)

  • Ida L Stone in household of John Stone, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Ida Lawanda Stone, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
  • Ida L. Clapp Stone, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    14 December 1866Millbury, Millbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
  • Children (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (6)

    +1 More Child

    World Events (8)

    1863

    Age 11

    Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

    1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg

    Age 11

    The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 18

    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    Name Meaning

    English: from Middle English ston(e) ‘stone, rock’ (Old English stān). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on stony ground, by a notable outcrop of rock, or by a stone boundary-marker or monument, or habitational, from a place called Stone, such as those in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire.

    Irish (Kilkenny): adopted for Irish Ó Clochartaigh (see Clougherty ) and/or Ó Clochasaigh (see Clohessy ), and possibly several other names containing or thought to contain the element cloch ‘stone’.

    Americanized form (translation into English) of various surnames in other languages, meaning ‘stone’, including Jewish Stein , Norwegian Steine, French Lapierre .

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

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