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Benjamin Manifold StoneAge: 61 years1917–1978

Name: Benjamin Manifold Stone

Given names: Benjamin Manifold

Surname: Stone

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Birth	August 10, 1917 31 26 Source: eGSSA Documents Citation details: Death notice: Izak Jacobus Marthinus STONE (1933), MOOC 6/9/4369 #40080, http://www.eggsa.org/documents/main.php?g2_itemId=1514078 : accessed 22 Oct 2015 Text: CAL 1917 Source: eGSSA Gravestone Library Citation details: Gravestone: B M STONE (1917-1978), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=3783134 : accessed 16 Dec 2019 Gravestone: B M STONE (1917-1978) Source: Parish registers, NGK Namakwaland Citation details: Baptism: Benjamin Manifold DIXON (1918), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-C99V-8?cat=1153592 : accessed 23 Dec 2019 Baptism: Benjamin Manifold DIXON (1918)
Baptism	February 3, 1918 (Age 5 months) Namaqualand, South Africa Source: Parish registers, NGK Namakwaland Citation details: Baptism: Benjamin Manifold DIXON (1918), https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSK6-C99V-8?cat=1153592 : accessed 23 Dec 2019 Baptism: Benjamin Manifold DIXON (1918)
War	from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I Note: World War I
Birth of a brother	Willem van Oranje Nassau Stone October 6, 1922 (Age 5 years) Source: eGSSA Gravestone Library Citation details: Gravestone: Willem van Oranje Nassau STONE (1922-1995) en Hester Johanna MEYER (1929-1991), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=2405013 : accessed 1 June 2016 Source: eGSSA Documents Citation details: Death notice: Izak Jacobus Marthinus STONE (1933), MOOC 6/9/4369 #40080, http://www.eggsa.org/documents/main.php?g2_itemId=1514078 : accessed 22 Oct 2015 Source: SA Voters roll transcription (1984) Citation details: Willem van Oranje Nassau STONE, S044/M13/#1
Death of a paternal grandfather	Charles James Samuel Stone between October 1917 and 1932 (Age 52 days) Source: eGSSA Documents Citation details: Death notice: Izak Jacobus Marthinus STONE (1933), MOOC 6/9/4369 #40080, http://www.eggsa.org/documents/main.php?g2_itemId=1514078 : accessed 22 Oct 2015 Source: eGSSA Documents Citation details: Death notice: Anna Magarietha Maria VAN NIEKERK (1917), MOOC 6/9/1014 #4033, http://www.eggsa.org/documents/main.php?g2_itemId=1513780 : accessed 22 Oct 2015
Death of a paternal grandmother	Anna Magarietha Maria van Niekerk October 11, 1917 (Age 2 months) Age: 60 years 0 months 11 days Vaalcijfer, Springbok, Namaqualand, South Africa Address: Vaalzuiver, Springbok Source: eGSSA Documents Citation details: Death notice: Anna Magarietha Maria VAN NIEKERK (1917), MOOC 6/9/1014 #4033, http://www.eggsa.org/documents/main.php?g2_itemId=1513780 : accessed 22 Oct 2015 Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972 Publication: database with images Citation details: Death registration: Anna Maria Magarietha STONE (1917), FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-21987-57407-18?cc=1779109 : accessed 29 September 2015), 1917 > Namaqualand > image 607 of 714; National Archives, Pretoria. Date of entry in original source: October 13, 1917 Text: Cause of death: rheumatism (heart) Quality of data: primary evidence Death Registration: Anna Magarietha Maria van Niekerk (1917) Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Probate Records of the Master of the High Court, 1834-1989 Publication: database with images, FamilySearch Citation details: Death notice: Anna Magarietha Maria VAN NIEKERK (1917), MOOC 6/9/1014 #4033, (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BY-V9BB-B?cc=2517051&wc=WVWM-9JG%3A1598032347 : 11 October 2018), 007730925 > image 183 of 740; Pietermaritzburg Archives (Formerly Natal State Archives), South Africa : accessed 15 Dec 2019 Death notice: Anna Magarietha Maria VAN NIEKERK (1917)
Epidemic	1918 (Age 4 months) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_in_South_Africa Note: Spanish flu: An estimated 500,000 people die from the Spanish flu epidemic in South Africa, the fifth hardest hit country in the world
Economic Event	October 1929 (Age 12 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://goo.gl/MgHbRM Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century
Death of a father	Izak Jacobus Marthinus Stone January 3, 1933 (Age 15 years) Age: 48 years 1 month Arkoep, Kamieskroon, Northern Cape, South Africa Address: Arkoep, Kamieskroon, Namakwaland Source: eGSSA Documents Citation details: Death notice: Izak Jacobus Marthinus STONE (1933), MOOC 6/9/4369 #40080, http://www.eggsa.org/documents/main.php?g2_itemId=1514078 : accessed 22 Oct 2015 Text: 1932 Source: South Africa, Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972 Publication: database with images Citation details: Death registration Izak Jacobus Marthinus STONE: FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-22060-12148-59?cc=1779109 : accessed 6 October 2015), 1933 > Namaqualand > image 34 of 677; National Archives, Pretoria. Date of entry in original source: January 18, 1933 Text: 1933 Cause of death: maag koors Quality of data: primary evidence Death registration: Izak Jacobus Marthinus Stone (1933) Shared note: Death date: Izak Jacobus Marthinus Stone (1884-1933) Death date: Izak Jacobus Marthinus Stone (1884-1933) His death notice gives 3.1.1932 (but is signed only in Nov 1933), while the death registration is 3.1.1933 (and is signed a few day after the death, on 18 Jan 1933). Therefore 3.1.1933 is used as the death date.
War	from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (Age 22 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II Note: World War II
Historical Event	February 14, 1961 (Age 43 years) South Africa Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_South_Africa Note: Decimalisation of currency replaces the South African pound with the South African rand
Historical Event	May 31, 1961 (Age 43 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_South_Africa Note: South Africa becomes a republic
Death	December 1, 1978 (Age 61 years) Source: eGSSA Gravestone Library Citation details: Gravestone: B M STONE (1917-1978), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=3783134 : accessed 16 Dec 2019 Gravestone: B M STONE (1917-1978)
Burial	Kamieskroon, Northern Cape, South Africa Source: eGSSA Gravestone Library Citation details: Gravestone: B M STONE (1917-1978), http://www.graves-at-eggsa.org/main.php?g2_itemId=3783134 : accessed 16 Dec 2019 Gravestone: B M STONE (1917-1978)

Generation 1
1. Benjamin Manifold Stone, son of Izak Jacobus Marthinus Stone and Anna Jamima Dixon, was born on August 10, 1917 and died on December 1, 1978 at the age of 61.