Do you know which county your William Stone was from? In the 1790 SC census I show several William Stones. They are from Chester Co., Camden Co., Georgetown District, Prince Fredericks Parish, Ninety-Six District, Abbeville Co., Ninety-Six District, Greenville Co., Ninety-Six District, Laurens Co., Ninety-Six District, Newberry Co., Ninety-Six District, Pendleton Co., and Ninety-Six District, Spartanburgh Co. Anjanette ---------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [STONE-L] Elizabeth Stone's ancestry > Date: Saturday, August 22, 1998 9:34 AM > > 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 > > > ==== STONE Mailing List ==== > To unsub or for more info on the STONE list please see: http://members.aol.com/TreeCrazyD/stone_l.html > Note: that is STONE _L just like in the list name. It is case sensitive.