Calfern Claire Stevens

Brief Life History of Calfern Claire

When Calfern Claire Stevens was born on 28 July 1898, in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States, her father, Bertrand Hull Stevens, was 23 and her mother, Sallie Agnes Parker, was 22. She married Henry Bertrand Westerfield Sr on 24 June 1919, in Orleans, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Biloxi, Harrison, Mississippi, United States for about 10 years and Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States in 1988. She died in July 1988, in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

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Family Time Line

Henry Bertrand Westerfield Sr
1896–1977
Calfern Claire Stevens
1898–1988
Marriage: 24 June 1919
Henry Bertrand Westerfield Jr
1920–1958

Sources (28)

  • Fern Stephens, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Claire Stevens Calfern, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Clara Calferon Stevens, "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1907 · Boll Weevil Destroys Most the Cotton Crop

When the boll weevil threatened most the Mississippi Delta, it put the state’s cotton crop in peril. By the time the boll weevil reached Mississippi it had already destroyed four million bales of cotton. This added up to $238 million at the time or about 6 billion in present day. The boll weevil depends on cotton for every stage of its life.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

English (London), Flemish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Steven . The surname of Flemish origin is also found in the Walloon part of Belgium. In North America, the English form of the surname has also absorbed some like-sounding Jewish names and various other European cognates, e.g. Greek Stefanidis , Serbian Stevanović (see Stevanovic ), Slovenian and Slovak Štefanič (see Stefanic ).

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

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