In a message dated 8/21/98 08:56:29 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Hi, Jack, am looking at James Stones on the ancestry.com world tree files....is there anything else you can tell us to identify this James Stone? wife? children? date of death, etc? regards, Victoria >> Yes maam. I would be happy to. Thank you for your quick response. According to family tradition and records, my great great great gradfather James Stone, was born in South Carolina in 1790. It was stated by his daughter in law in a biography of her husband that James' father was named William, and that he had a tobacco plantation in SC and was wounded in the revolutionary war. James' mothers' maiden name was MCCLURE. A cousin of mine, Wayne HENDON, has stated that James and Elizabeth GUEST were married in 1816 in Tennesee. I know that is eldest son Martin (1817) and his second son William (1818) were born in Warren county Tennessee. They moved to Alabama in 1819-1820 or so. Here Sarah (1820), James H (1822), Mary Ann (1824) and Margaret (1828) were born. Then they relocated to Yell county Arkansas about 1830 where Greeberry (1831) and Redman (1832) and Matilda (1835) were born. Redman was my great great grandfather. About 1837 they moved on to Barry County Mo, and John Lock Stone was born there in 1839. Two years later their last child Andrew Larkin Stone wsa born in Barry county Mo. In 1843 they moved to Texas, residing in Rusk county, in 1850 James moved to Hunt county where he died iSept 12, 1851. Some of the kids split up and moved to Tarrant county, but then most all of them relocated to Erath county by 1860 and ultimately to Comanche county around the small town of Proctor Texas. Outside Proctor Texas there is the Stone family graveyard, where William, Redman, Matilda, and Greenberry are all buried. Also, there are some of the family buried a few miles away in the area known as Ebenezer Texas. You wont find it on a map trust me ha ha. My part of the family, Redman and wife lived in the Ebenezer area. Redman married once about 1855 and had 5 children, all but one of the children died, and then his wife died about 1862. My great grandfather was the only one to survive. Redman remarried to Harriette Sanders and the two had many more children. All together Redman fathered about 12 kids. My great grandfather married Sarah Gartman around the 1870's and the two lived there having 8 children and then his wife died. He left Comanche county about 1900 am moved to Mason County around the area of Streeter Texas. It was there they my Grandmother of 16, Donia Gertrude Stone met and married my grandfather of 40 Albert Lee McGehee. If you have any information on this family, I would love to correspond with you. We have a great deal of info to share, but are always curious to find more. There are some of the kids of James we know very little about. Also, where was James born and all about his lineage. Thanks, Look forward to hearing from you. Rev Jack McGehee