Perhaps some researchers have an interest in this man. He is my ancestor. His wife was his first cousin, Nancy Tribble. Stoner's mother was nee Frances ["Franky"] Tandy Tribble, one of the daughters of Rev. Andrew Tribble of Madison Co. and perhaps of Clark Co. Preparer: Evelyn W. Wallace GEORGE WASHINGTON STONER. (1787-1871) Harriet A. Spraker, compiler of THE BOONE FAMILY (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co.), has a section "The Stoner Family," written by a Stoner descendant, Bess Hawthorne. Hawthorne was descended from (George) Michael Stoner (formerly Holsteiner of Lancaster Co and Berks Co., PA). For information concerning George Washington Stoner, see No. 459, THE BOONE FAMILY, under the name of his wife Nancy Tribble, daughter of Peter Burris Tribble and his wife, Mary Boone. The Lyman Draper Collection (held by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI), Kentucky Papers, contains some letters written by George Washington Stoner to Lyman Draper and other letters written by a nephew, John Stoner, later killed by "Yankee guerillas." See Draper C-55 ff. At the time of the interview, 28 Nov 1868, G. W. Stoner was living in Bath Co., KY which had been formed from Montgomery Co. In the interview, Stoner said he was born 1787 in Clark Co., KY, five miles SE of Winchester. Stoner said he and his wife (Nancy Tribble, his first cousin) were married in the spring of 1812. His parents were (George) Michael Stoner, an early pioneer of Kentucky, and Frances Tandy Tribble, about whom Draper had questioned Stoner and other relatives. Draper was interested in the pioneers of Kentucky and was an inveterate collector of American historical information, much to the delight of historians, biographers, and family historians. Films of the collection are generally available at large university libraries and some other larger libraries, such as the Family History Library at Salt Lake City and many University libraries. George W. Stoner and his wife had twelve children. Michael Lowery Stoner was one of those sons, and he came to Texas ca. 1859. Reportedly, the children of Michael Lowery, with the exception of Overton (George Overton), were taken to Kentucky to stay with their paternal grandfather during the Civil War, as their mother, nee Carlisle Harris, had died, leaving behind some very young orphans. Carlisle was the daughter of Overton Harris (d. 1827 in Madison Co., KY) and his wife Nancy Oldham, dau. of Richard "Ready-Money" Oldham also of Madison Co. The 1870 census, Bath Co., E. Sharpsburg, p. 703, line ll, indicates Washington Stoner, age 82, was a fairly wealthy man--$47,500 in real estate. Nancy, his wife, was age 75. (This was after the Civil War, when most Southerners had seen a sharp decline in their property, largely because the slaves, which were counted as property, had been freed.) His son, G. Washington, Jr., was in the same household with his wife Nancy, Jr. He had real estate value of $17,000 and personal estate of $2,185 estate. (To be continued)