[email protected] wrote: > Searching for any information on John A. Stone who was born in North > Carolina in 1818 and married Mary Nolan, also born NC, about 1838, in > either North Carolina or Tennessee. I recently learned Mary's maiden > name (Nolan) from her gravestone in Two Bayou Cemetery in Ouachita Co., > AR. John and Mary both died in 1863. I have not yet located where in > North Carolina they were born, and I haven't been able to find a marriage > record for them in either NC or TN, where their first child, Sarah > Elizabeth Stone, was born in 1839. Other children were born in > Mississippi and in Arkansas, where they finally settled. If anyone has > easy access to any Stone marriage records from NC or TN, I would > certainly appreciate it if these could be checked. Thanks for any help > or suggestions on where I could search for this marriage record. > > Barbara Ray > [email protected] Barbara, There is a John A. Stone in my lineage, born in Surry County, North Carolina, 12 Oct 1838; d. 25 Jul 1863. My source says he was a Civil War casualty, perhaps at Gettysburg, where his brother, Enoch, died. My source (Stones of Surry, 2d ed, 1955) does not name a spouse. This John A. was one of twelve children of Enoch and Elizabeth (Gordon) Stone. The "A" could stand for "Anthony," the maiden name of John's paternal grandmother. Richard Bingham