The Shephard name would make it seem like we're connected, but here's the data I have on John Stone and Rachel Shephard. It would put Rachel Shephard at least 5 generations back from your Sarah Stone - probably a little too far for Sarah to use Rachel's maiden name as her child's middle name. This info is from a genealogy of Deacon Gregory Stone I found at the NEHGS library. 850 JOHN STONE, 8G Grandfather. Born on 12 May 1663 in Cambridge Farms, Mass. JOHN died in Cambridge Farms, Mass. on 3 Feb 1712; he was 48. On 27 Apr 1687 when JOHN was 23, he married RACHEL SHEPHARD, 8G Grandmother, in Cambridge, Mass. They had the following children: i. Rachel (Died as Child) (1688-1695) ii. John (1689-<1762) iii. Mary (1692-1757) 425 iv. ANNA (1694-1760) v. Rachel (1697-1779) vi. Ruth (1700-) 851 RACHEL SHEPHARD, 8G Grandmother. Born abt 1665. RACHEL died in Lexington, Mass. on 17 Mar 1724; she was 59. ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: STONE-D Digest V98 #105 Author: <[email protected]> at Internet Date: 7/31/98 10:21 AM In a message dated 98-07-31 08:55:05 EDT, you write: << To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [STONE-L] re: Deacon Gregory Stone Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Dan, I too can trace my roots to Deacon Gregory Stone (of Massachusetts) through my mother's mother. (My own last name I trace back through Frederick Co., Md. and then to Loudoun Co., Va.). My ancestors with the Stone surname: 1. Deacon Gregory Stone 2. Deacon Samuel Stone m. Sarah Stearns (FYI: her parents are ancestors of Pres. Richard M. Nixon), 3. John Stone m. Rachel Shephard 4. Anna Stone m. Josiah Parker How are you descended from Deacon Gregory? Owings Stone [email protected] >> I am very curious about your STONES My 3 great grandmother was Betsey Stone and her daughter named my great grand father Charles Shepard Crosby.....mmmmmm any connections.... Barbara Descendants of Elizabeth(Betsey) H. Stone Generation No. 1 1. ELIZABETH(BETSEY) H.1 STONE was born Abt. 1797 in Maine1, and died Bef. 1860 in Maine. She married WILLIAM M. PERSONS October 30, 1819 in Montville, Waldo, Maine2. Children of ELIZABETH(BETSEY) STONE and WILLIAM PERSONS are: i. WILLIAM H.2 PERSONS, b. Bangor, Penobscot, ME; m. SARAH MARIA PRESTON, June 09, 1844. ii. BENJAMIN W. PERSONS, b. August 10, 1824, Monteville, ME; d. February 16, 1914, Providence, RI; m. MARIA LOUISE LEWIS. 2. iii. SARAH STONE PERSONS, b. June 16, 1826, Bangor, Penobscot, ME; d. February 24, 1903, 40 St. Paul St., Brookline, MA, buried Mt Hope, Bangor, ME # 701CG. Generation No. 2 2. SARAH STONE2 PERSONS (ELIZABETH(BETSEY) H.1 STONE) was born June 16, 1826 in Bangor, Penobscot, ME3, and died February 24, 1903 in 40 St. Paul St., Brookline, MA, buried Mt Hope, Bangor, ME # 701CG. She married CHARLES W. CROSBY June 13, 1844 in Penobscot, Maine, son of WILLIAM CROSBY and ELIZABETH BROWN. Children of SARAH PERSONS and CHARLES CROSBY are: i. ADELAIDE E.3 CROSBY, b. 1845, Bangor, Penobscot, ME3; d. March 03, 1868, West Roxbury, MA; m. SAMUEL JAMES GALLAGHER, Aft. 1860. ii. CHARLES SHEPARD CROSBY, b. April 10, 1851, Calais, Washington Co. ME4; d. December 13, 1909, Channing Hosp., res.12 Hamilton St., Providence, RI, buried Mt Hope, Bangor, ME5; m. ALICE JEANNETTE MURDOCK, August 17, 1874, Chelsea, Suffolk, MA6. iii. WILLIAM LINCOLN CROSBY, b. May 20, 1859, Calais, Washington Co. ME; d. November 09, 1931, Portland, ME, buried Mt Hope, Bangor, ME # 701CG. Endnotes 1. 1850 Maine Census 2. International Genealogical Index, Film # 011556. 3. 1850 Maine Census 4. Marriage certificate 5. Providence City Directory 1910 6. Marriage certificate