Helen Elizabeth Stone

Female5 August 1905–8 February 1942

Brief Life History of Helen Elizabeth

When Helen Elizabeth Stone was born on 5 August 1905, in Fenton, Genesee, Michigan, United States, her father, Ernest M. Stone, was 29 and her mother, Nellie B Somers, was 23. She died on 8 February 1942, in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 36.

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Family Time Line

Ernest M. Stone
1876–1930
Nellie B Somers
1882–1962
Helen Elizabeth Stone
1905–1942
Hazel M Stone
1909–1992

Sources (4)

  • Helen E Stone in household of Earnest R Stone, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Helen Elizabeth Stone, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
  • Helen E Stone, "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952"

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Siblings (2)

World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

Age 1

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1910 · Upper Twin Falls Bridge

Age 5

The Upper Twin Falls Bridge which connected Breitung Township, Michigan, to Florence County, Wisconsin. The through-truss bridge spanned the Menominee River and was completed in 1910. The bridge was closed to through traffic in 1971 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Age 11

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

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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