Brief Life History of Hiland G.
When Hiland G. Stockwell was born on 17 June 1853, in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, James Stockwell, was 39 and his mother, Abby Russell Lealand, was 36. He married Cora Hoyle Richards on 12 January 1876, in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. He died in 1917, at the age of 64, and was buried in Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Hiland Stockwell, "United States Census, 1910"
- Hiland G. Stockwell, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Stockwell, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · The Battle at Gettysburg
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
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:
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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