Hi, I think I am kin to all the Stones in Erath County, I think, send me some first names. Were they from Arkansas and Huckaby or the Stones from elsewhere who settled in Selden?James T Stone Sr. born 9/8/1799, Lexington, Rock Bridge, Virginiad. Flat Creek, (or is it Flat Rock Creek?) Bedford, County, Tenn. (Also the birthplace of Neil McLennan, organizer of McLennan, Bosque, and Erath County, with others, at the direction of the Texas Legislature. ) Next Generation (I have the children , but will give outlineof my line- will send more if it fits you.) James T/ Stone Jr. b. Flat Creek, Bedford Co. Tenn. 1/2/1827m. Sarah Bateman b. 10/10/1827 Next:: Nancy Elizabeth Stone (from records of Grace Ramage livingston) (also Aunt Sis and Anunt Liz).b/ 11/5/1851 d. 10/14/1922, b. Bateman Cemetery, Arkansas married Jasper Newton Carey b. 8/17/1848, Henderson Co. Tenn. d. 9/22/1852 Nashsville, Arkansas (from my mother's records)Sarah remaried a J.T. Lewis. Her sons I knew in Erath County were Grandad John Henry Carey of Arkansas, Huckaby, Pea Ridge, Texas and his brothers Sam and George. George was the father of Lonnie Carey & grandad of David Carey, who now owns land from south of Dr. Hatchett's Selden mansion east to the Duffau Creek. His wife's Cook family owns Dr. hatchetts retirement home in Selden adjoining his land. I attended High school with Teal, Toby and James Iv or V Stone, cousins of mom. Mom was in Stephenville Nursing Home with cousins Daisy McNeil Stone and Clory Stone Stewart. Cousin Rex Carey sent additions to my Stone info and 30 or so more names of children of the above. One was apparently a scout and translator for Col. John Sevier and Cols. Gillesoie in final Indian battles around Etowa, the Blue Peace City of Refuge sacked and burned by Andrew Jackson's orders and the ashes were scaterred. Your Cherokee rolls may show some of these as intermarried and claiming Cherokee Nation land in Arkansas. Christopher- I remember Leonard Christopher well. I think he married a Selden Stone. He farmed south of Johnsville School with Davis and Beach land between him and Skipper's Gap. Leonard was a good baseball player if farming didn't interfere. I was always told the Stones of Selden Gin and one with the Weeks- Stone Thresher setup were not related to the Huckaby group. The first group above contained a Bro. Stone who travelled some with the Campbell Brothers in the Church of Christ Reformation movement and sometimes debated on their side. Velma Kay Hugghins, of Selden and Houston, a Wyly grandchild, said one of her mother's Stone Ancestors was this Debating Stone and another ancestor was a Baptist who used to debate against them on several occasions. Small world, Isn't it. I knew Johnny Kilcrease and his sisters and blind dad. I never had connected them as you said. There were a few times that their entire family picked cotton or pulled bowls for dad and Grandad at Selden. As you may know, there was a Dr. Langford in Stephenville and he owned the Chalk Mountain farm run by a black, Lee Rice, who was raised by a Dunn near Dublin. When Mr. Dunn was leaving Alabama, he told neighbors goodbye and found that Mrs. Rice had died, so he raised Lee and his 2 sons near Dublin. See Marilyn Mills Ewers History of the Three Way School. One of mom & dad's friends at Selden was Amabelle Allison, mother of Tarleton Football coach (retired) Johnny Dunn, a fellow SHS graduate. Let me know which Stone you are kin to. If you tie all these names together, you see why we at Johnsville and Selden used to joke about going to Hico or Glen Rose or Dublin to date someone we weren't kin to. Then I found out we had to check them out too. I met my wife at Tarleton, a Clyde athlete, born Levelland, but her father was raised at Cleburne. Our Tennessee ancestors in early 1800's attended church and cpmmunity meetings together. Take care, Charles Wyly