Brief Life History of Ruth May
When Ruth May Stockwell was born on 27 May 1875, in Sampsel, Livingston, Missouri, United States, her father, Robert Hughes Stockwell, was 49 and her mother, Judy Ann Gibbs, was 37. She married Carroll Francis Boyd on 27 November 1892, in Livingston, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Cream Ridge Township, Livingston, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Cream Ridge, Livingston, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. She died on 5 June 1961, in Chillicothe, Livingston, Missouri, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Cream Ridge, Livingston, Missouri, United States.
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Sources (11)
- Rutha Boyd in household of Cal F Boyd, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ruth May Stockwell - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Ruth May Stockwell
- Rutha M Stockwell, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
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World Events (8)
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
1876 · The Battle of Little Bighorn
An armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry of the US Army. The battle was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from any of various places called Stockwell, including Stockwell in Lambeth (Surrey) and Stockwell in Cowley (Gloucestershire), from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk, stump’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
perhaps sometimes in northern England a variant of Stockill, a habitational name from Stockeld in Spofforth (Worth Yorkshire) and perhaps also Stockheld Grange in Barwick in Elmet (Yorkshire). The placenames derive from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk, stump’ + helde ‘slope’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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