When Frances Shirley Stone was born in 1921, in Colorado, United States, her father, Nathaniel Stone, was 35 and her mother, Myrtle L Purdue, was 35. She lived in Election Precinct 17 Newdale, Otero, Colorado, United States for about 10 years and Denver, Colorado, United States in 2001. She died in 2012, at the age of 91.
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On June 3 1921, flash floods in Pueblo cause over $20 million in damage and kill over 1,500 people in its wake.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
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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