Sherren Family Tree » Martha Jane Stephens (1820-1891)

Personal data Martha Jane Stephens 

Sources 1, 2, 3
  • She was born on January 15, 1820 in Putnam Co., Georgia, Verenigde Staten.Source 1
    Original photo of newspaper obituary per Find-a-Grave records her four sons as survivors: W. K. and B. F. Meadows from near Beulah; T. C. Meadows from West Point, GA; and Isham Meadows from Phenix City.
  • She died on October 2, 1891 in Phenix City, Russell Co., Alabama, USA, she was 71 years old.Source 1
    Newspaper obit photo per Find-a-Grave indicates she died of cancer a few days after the death of a beloved little grandson. Her illness of long duration, she died at the home of son, Isham Meadows, near Knight's Station, Phenix City, at 6:50 PM.
  • She is buried in the year 1891 in Lee County, Alabama, Verenigde Staten.Source 1
    Hedhzibah Cemetery. Find-a-Grave Obituary from Columbus Daily Enquirer of 3 Oct, cites transport this date by the 11:45 AM train to Mott's Mill where her body would be transported by private conveyance to Hebhzibah to be buried near her recently deceased g
  • A child of Theophilus Stephens and Celia Devane

Household of Martha Jane Stephens


Child(ren):

  1. William K Meadows  1840-????
  4. Amanda Meadows  1851-????
  5. Isham Meadows  1851-1928

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Martha Jane Stephens
1820-1891



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William K Meadows
1840-????
Benjamin Franklin Meadows
1841-1918
Theophilus Calvin Meadows
1843-1898
Amanda Meadows
1851-????
Isham Meadows
1851-1928

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Sources

  1. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  2. Alabama, County Marriage Records, 1805-1967, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
  3. Alabama, Select Marriage Indexes, 1816-1942, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

Historical events

Birthday January 15, 1820

  • The temperature on January 15, 1820 was about -10 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: betrokken mist. Source: KNMI
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    De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
  • In the year 1820: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 3 » The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
    • March 6 » The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
    • April 8 » The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
    • August 24 » Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
    • October 9 » Guayaquil declares independence from Spain.
    • November 20 » An 80-ton sperm whale attacks and sinks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)

Day of death October 2, 1891

  • The temperature on October 2, 1891 was about 13.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • January 29 » Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
    • March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
    • May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
    • July 26 » France annexes Tahiti.
    • October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.
    • October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.


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