When Grace L. Stebbins was born on 16 November 1882, in Vermont, United States, her father, Hiram B. Stebbins, was 31 and her mother, Ella Elizabeth Shepard, was 26. She died on 5 August 1885, at the age of 2, and was buried in Grand Island Cemetery, Grand Island, Hall, Nebraska, United States.
English (Middlesex and Essex): habitational name from Stebbing (Essex). The placename means ‘the people of a man called Stybba’ or ‘the people of the tree stumps’, from an Old English personal name Stybba or Old English stybb ‘tree stump’ + the groupname suffix -ingas.
History: Edward Stebbins was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, in 1635 (coming from Cambridge, MA with Thomas Hooker).
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