Note from Leila: "I found this homemade book in a box of my grandmother's belongings. My grandmother is Dorothy Mae Dillard."

Note from Diane and Danene: Later generations are not included on the webpage page for privacy reasons. For more information please contact Leila Milberg.

Stephen STONE, the grandfather of Stephen Stone (1811 - 1867) was born in 1750, Caroline Co, VA. He married Kezziah A. _.

His application for a Revoluntionary War pension follows:
(file #S-3966)
State of Tennessee, Sumner County
On the 22nd day of August 1832, peronsally appeared before me in open court William Edwards, Thomas Anderson, and J. L. Esqs. of the Court of Pleas, Etc., of Sumner County, now sitting.

Stephen Stone, a resident citizen of said county, aged 82 years, who being first duly sworn, does on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress, passed the 7th June 1832.

That the applicant entered the services, first in the year 1776 or 1777 in Hanover County, Virginia, as a drafted militia man for the term of three months.

That he joined his company at the Hanover Court Court House and was commanded by Capt. William Winston and was marched from there down to Williamsburg, and was stationed there until his term of service expired and he was discharged.

After this applicant was drafted for the term of three months each as many as four times, and there being no man at home with his family he was discharged;

And again in the year 1780 he was drafted for the term of three months and was mustered into service in Richmond, Virginia, that the company he belonged to was commanded by Capt. Hardeman and he does not recollect his given name or regiment or field officer, he does not know what became of his discharge.

That he was born in Caroline County, Virginia, 1750.

That he resided in Hanover County, Virginia, when he entered the service.

That he removed from Hanover County to Sumner County, Tennessee, where he now resides and has lived for more than thirty years.

And the said Court hereby declares their opinion after the Interrogation of the matter and after putting the Questions prepared by the War Department.

That the above Stephen Stone was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and served as he states, and the Court further certifies it appears to them that Joseph B. Wynn who signs the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in Wilson County, Tennessee, and that Alonzo H. Douglas and John Swaney who have also signed there, and resident in Sumner County, are creditalbe persons, and that their statements are entitiled to credit.
Signed
Thos. Anderson
Wm. Edwards
John L. Swaney
Aug. 4, 1832
A. H. Douglas, Clerk

His obiturary by Mr. Gaskill, from the Union Paper, Gallatin Tennessee, Friday, April 27, 1838:
While we treasure a remembrance of the amiable virtures and brillant talents of the Statesman and divine who has slept the sleep of death, we would not forget those who are justly called the bone and sinue of society (viz) the honest farmer Stephen Stone, Senr., the subject of this memoir living to the advanced age of 88 years - 40 of which was spent in the service of God. He lived during that time an acceptable member of the Methodist Church - so living to constain those around him to acknowledge him, not only the honest man, but the Christian, and finished his race on the 16th day of April, in full assurance of the inheritance which awaited him at the right hand of God.

Three children came with Stephen Stone to Sumner County:
Stephen Stone Jr who married Polly LOVING, lic. obt. December 24, 1803 Sumner County. In the 1860 Sumner County Census is found the following:
Stephen Stone age 75 Male born Virginia $16,000 Farmer
Malinda Hudson 43 Female Tennes
A. M. Hudson 16 Male Tennes
W. H. Hudson 14 Male Tennessee
M. E. Hudson 12 Female Tennessee
This could likely be Stephen Jr, his daughter, and grandchildren.

Dolly Stone who married Walter LOVING, lic. obt. April 23, 1806 Sumner County. She died about 1839. Children: Henry H. Loving, John P. Loving, Evaline Loving.

William Nicholas Stone (1788-1855) married Elizabeth (Betsey) LOVING, lic. obt. February 24, 1808 Sumner County.

The Lovings seem to have been children of Henry LOVING of Sumner County. From the Sumner County Deed Books we have evidence to support relationships.
3/27/1820 B 9 p85
Stephen Stone Sr and wife Keziah A. Stone to Deed son Wm. Nicholas and wife Elizabeth (Betty) Stone.
3/13/1811 B 6 p83
Stephen Stone Jr and wife Polly and Brother Wm Nicholas Stone and wife Elizabeth (Betty) and her brother Walter LOVING to Deed...
6/4/1813 B 6 p291
Stephen Stone Jr to Deed Walter LOVING
2/25/1817 B 8 p58
Wm. Nicholas Stone to Deed Stephen Stone.

John O. Stone of Ferndale, Michigan, indicates that Henry LOVING had four children: Betty, Walter, Mary, William.

William Nicholas STONE, the father of Stephen Stone (1811-1867_ was born in Virginia in 1788 and died in Sumner County November 15, 1857, aged 69 yr 11 mo; he married February, 1808 to Elizabeth (Betsey) LOVING who was born in North Carolina in 1792 and died in Sumner County September 28, 1858, aged 66 yr. They had fourteen children.
Stephen STONE married Mary Ann DENNY

Mary S. (Polly) STONE (December 6, 1812 - November 7, 1859) married December 1836 to Zachariah BRAZIOR (December 19, 1812 - March 29, 1846); from Census Records her children appear to be: Green, James, William, Zachariah, Orville D, and Elizabeth. It seems that her sister Lucinda Stone stayed with them and raised the younger children after she died.

Sophia STONE (August 3, 1814 - September 5, 1885) married January 17, 1833 to John R. BALCH (October 11, 1810 - July 20, 1892); from Census Records her children appear to be: Catherine, Elizabeth, William, Alfred N., Susan Eliza, Martha, Nancy, Jane, John, Joseph. The names is sometimes BAULCH.

Frankie STONE (November 6, 1816 - November 1835) a daughter.

Lucinda STONE (August 30, 1818 - May 12, 1880?) unmarried.

Joseph Henry STONE (April 8, 1820 - April 18, 1895 Trenton Texas).

Francis A. STONE (July 3, 1822 - ).

Kezziah A. STONE (January 7, 1824 - February 6, 1863) married July 16, 1848 to a JERNIGAN. J. M. (1851 - 1898) and O. D. may be her children.

William M. STONE (January 22, 1826 - ) married September 6, 1856 to Jane HIGGASON; children: William, Ellen, Josie, Lizzie, John R., Nora, Sally.

Fountain P. STONE (January 22, 1828 - November 2, 1857) a son.

Nicholas Howard STONE (March 4, 1830 - March 13, 1900) married; 1st March 15, 1850 to Sarah Jane GOUSLEY (August 17, 1835 - July 17, 1868?); 2nd May 4, 1870 to Mary Elizabeth HANNA (April 12, 1844 - February 5, 1909); his children were: 1st marriage, Elizabeth Harriett Stone HORN and Martha Jane Stone FRANKLIN; 2nd marriage, Mamie Lee Stone WIDLICK, Susie Tinnon Stone LEE, Clara Thomas Stone BAULCH, John Richard Stone, Abnor Nicholas Stone, Jamos Kavanaugh Stone, and Pearl Stone.

Sarah Matilda E. STONE (January 14, 1832 - July 15, 1868) married October 5, 1850 to J. Harvey DUKE (born about 1829.

Alexander G. STONE (July 8, 1834 - December 3, 1878) married; 1st October 7, 1858 to Martha Jane WILKES; 2nd Decmeber 31, 1874 to Martha Jane RINFROW; his children were: 1st marriage, A. Stone, Robert Lee Stone, Emma Jane Stone BORDERS, and Mattie Lon Stone; 2nd marriage, John Wesley Stone and Harriet Catherine Stone COLLIER.

James Thomas STONE (March 20, 1837 - November 14, 1859); he mentions all his brothers and sisters except Mary S. (Polly) Stone BRAZIOR, died November 7, 1859, Frankie Stone, and Fountain P. Stone.

John WARD, the grandfather of Mary Ann Denney Stone, was born 1754 and died September 7, 1846, at the age of 92 in Arkansas. His wife was Roxy Lainye (Rocksolany, etc.) Carnegia who was born February 12, 1766 and died March 18, 1812. They had seventeen children, born and raised in Ward Hollow, now owned by Jim Stone, where William and Wandalene live. (This information from Frances Waller). Hubert Ward said John and Roxy Lainye Carnegia Ward came from Ireland through North Carolina. The 1850 Smith County Census gives William DENNEY born North Carolina, wife Charlotte Ward Denney born Tennessee, so seems likley that is correct. The children:
Henry WARD - married Sally HARRIS.

Jim WARD - born 1782.

Bryant WARD - born 1786, died 1872, married September 23, 1809 to Polly WINN, no children; married Mary Tinley MURPHY who had three children by previous marriage: Andrew Murphy, John Murphy, and Fannie Murphy KIRBY. Bryant and Mary Ward had one son James Bryant Ward who married Tabitha F. STONE.

Luke WARD - born April 22, 1789, died 1811.

John WARD - born 1790

Matthew WARD

Marshall WARD

Wiley WARD

Ellis WARD

Jack WARD

Louis WARD

Cynthia WARD

Tylithia WARD

Nancy WARD - married Pink LOWE.

Tabitha WARD - married JOHNSON

Malinda WARD - married NELSON from Arkansas.

Lottie WARD - married Buck DENNEY.

William (Buck) DENNEY, the father of Mary Ann DENNEY STONE, was born in North Carolina about 1795 and died in Smith County, Tennessee, in 1852 or January 1853. His wife, Charoltte WARD was born in Tennessee about 1804. The 1850 Smith County Census shows him as 55, her 46, daughter Frances 17. They had five children.

Mary Ann DENNEY m. Stephen STONE.

William C. (Bill) DENNEY married May 29, 1851, to Drucilla G. BRADLEY Smith County Records. His children were: William BRADLEY (who married Josephine ALLEN and was father of Herman WALTER, Gertrude, Randolph, Archie, Allen, and Nannie Edward Hughes), Edward, Marshall, Lewis, Walter R. and Mollie.

Carroll W. DENNEY died 1894, born about 1825, married Josphine _. The 1850 Smith County Census shows him Sam (father of Sam and Eddie), Hughlette, John Callie, Carroll, Lillie, and Mary (Mattie) BEARD (mother of Callie CUTRELL and Jose GREGORY).

Harriet DENNEY married an UNDERWOOD.

Frances DENNEY born about 1833 married November 15, 1850 to Burton UNDERWOOD. Her children were: Bertie OWENS, Johnathon, Clarency, Vantrease, Charlotte, Barton, and Emma BRADLEY.

Statement by Chester STONE, June 1, 1956
The records of Smith County, Tennesee, show the following:
Book Q p 304, shows that on January 22, 1841 Wm. OWENS deeded Stephen STONE 100 acres or less, which is now owned by Mrs. Mattie PURYEAR or Knox and Minnie Lee SPECK.
It shows that on October 25, 1852, the will of Wm. DENNEY who married Charolette WARD was probated and that he left to his two sons Wm. C. DENNEY and Carroll W. DENNEY his lands and to his three daughters Frances UNDERWOOD, Harriet UNDERWOOD, and Mary Ann STONE, being my grandmother, his slaves, money, and personal property.

They further show (Book Y p 110) that Stephen STONE bought from the Executors of Jacob DICO deceased 250 acres of land lying on both sides of the road from Rome to Hartsville and bounded on South by WARD, East by BURTON, North by Robert ALLEN, and DICO, and west by DOUGLAS, also bought about this time shown in Book Z, p. 191, 33 acres from Francis CUNNINGHAM, and in Book Z p. 310, from Frances CUNNINGHAM, 83 acres which is now the Jim H. STONE place, and part of the Hubert WARD place, part of the Ellen STONE place, and part of hte Marshall STONE home place.

Knowing that Stephen's eldest son, Wm. N. STONE later lived and died on the first place bought by Stephen STONE, I assume that when Stephen STONE later bought the larger place that he sold the smaller place to his son Wm. N. STONE.

I further assume that since Stephen STONE bought this larger tract of land just a few years after the will of his wife's father Wm. DENNEY that the money she inherited from her father's estate helped in this cause, also at about this time in 1854 Book Z p. 328, shows that Stephen STONE bought two slaves from Johnson UNDERWOOD, who I suppose was his brother-in-law.
Further in the year 1844 Will Book 10, p. 38 shows that Jacob DICE in his will made mention of his daughter's grave in the S. E. corner of the yard, who was Mary DICE HUFF and in my childhood I remember that grave, as it was in the yard of my homeplace, which is now owned by E. P. And Wavie T. HALEY.

Family of Stephen STONE (son of Wiliam Nicholas STONE and Elizabeth LOVING), born January 14, 1811, died May 19, 1867). Married November 25, 1835 to Mary Ann DENNEY, (daughter of William DENNEY and Charlotte WARD born 1821, died 1870 or later).

1. Martha A. E. STONE (born January 14, 1837) m. William (Buck) MASSEY.

2. Harriett STONE (born June 1, 1838) m. Francis (Frank) CUNNINGHAM (son of James A.
    CUNNINGHAM and Salley MING).
     A. Rochelle CUNNINGHAM m. Alex DUNCAN.
          1. Bill Duncan
          2. Alebert Sidney Johnston Duncan
          3. Harriett Duncan
          4. Tom Ducan
          5. Fannie Duncan
          6. Betty Duncan
NOTE: (Mrs. Kuykendall thinks there were 8 or 10, some in Martin or McKenize, TN).
     B. Elizabeth CUNNINGHAM married January 25, 1882 by J. W. Fitzgerald to Carleslie
         Hall PLYE.
          1. Nora Kate PYLE m. Robert Branch MCCONNELL Sr.
          2. Rochelle Martha Louise PYLE (b. Feb. 2, 1888, Lebanon, TN) m. Dec. 10,
             1912 to Herman James KUYKENDALL (son of Willard Maupin KUYKENDALL
             and Jennis S. BROOKS b. Feb. 20, 1891, MT. Washington KY)
          3. Carleslie Frank PLYE m. Ruby B.

3. Caroline K. STONE (born June 18, 1840) married May 23, 1860 Smith Co, to James Monroe
    WILLIAMS Sr.
     A. William Thomas WILLIAMS m. Margaret Lane WILEY
          1. James Monroe WILLIAMS III (born 1888) m. Grace FULLENWIDER
          2. Lallie Mae WILLIAMS (born April 23, 1891) m. Edmond Daniel DILLARD.
              (Their daughter Dorothy Mae Dillard is the grandmother of Leila Milberg who
                contributed this information)
          3. Americus Vespucius WILLIAMS m. Amy Pierce
     B. Mary Eliza WILLIAMS m. Aquilla Hutchens.
     C. James Monroe WILLIAMS Jr. m. Mattie J. SCHULTZ

4. William Nicholas STONE (born May 14, 1842, d. Jan 17, 1896) married December 22, 1867,
   by J. N. Collinsworth, Wilson Co., to Ellen Johnson CALHOUN (b. June 3, 1850, d. Nov. 20,
   1934).
     A. Stephen Calhoun STONE (b. Dec. 22, 1868, d. 1896) m. July 22, 1890 by W. W. Suddarth 
        to Mary Adeline (Addie) BELL (daughter of Samuel Walker BELL and Martha Harriett BELL, 
        born May 13, 1872 d. Jan 18 1939)
          1. William Albert STONE (b. June 5, 1892, d. 1958) m. Dec. 22, 1912 to Mattie Eugene 
             CHAMBERLAIN (dau of Allen B. CHAMBERLAIN and Laurin LAIN, born May 8, 1895.
          2. Samuel Walker STONE (b. Aug 8, 1893, d. 1908)
          3. Alice Josephine STONE (b. Jan 3, 1896) m. Albert M. HELMS
     B. Lillyan Lassaphine STONE (b. Nov 11, 1870 m. Nov 20, 1888 to John Hiram LYLES)
     C. Howard Hansford STONE (b. Mar 8, 1873 d. Sept 10, 1950, Providence, Trousdale Co., TN) 
        m. Oct. 15, 1901 at Taylorsville, by W. W. Suddarth, to Mary Elizabeth POPE 
        (b. Aug 26, 1884, Smith Co. TN, d. Mar 12, 1909 at 20 Mile Hill)
          1. Wavie T. STONE (b. Jan 19, 1903 Wilson Co. TN) m. Aug 16, 1922 Lebanon, TN, 
             to E. P. HALEY (son of Charles Sanders HALEY and Molly MARTIN, born Jan 6, 1899, 
             Smith Co. TN)
          2. Calhoun David (C. D.) STONE (b. Apr 4, 1905, Wilson Co TN) m. Nov 2, 1934
             at Lebanon, TN to Martha Eugenia GRAY (daughter of Lellen Eugene GRAY and 
             Zackie  May NEWBY, b. Sept 26, 1914, Lebenon, TN)
          3. Franklin Nicholas (Frank) STONE (b. May 14, 1907, Wilson Co.TN) m. 1st 
             Aug 22, 1938 by W. W. Suddarth to Blanche Horton PRICE (daughter of Fletcher PRICE 
             and Luexie _ b. 1916) 2nd to Mary Margaret Anderson
     D. Ellen Novella STONE (b. Aug 3, 1875, d. Jan 7, 1945) m. Dec 28, 1892 to 
        Henry Hickerson MCDONALD (son of Samuel MCDONALD and Sarah CORLEY, born July 6, 1867, 
        died Oct. 31, 1922)
     E. William Hardee STONE (b. Aug 14, 1878) m. December 13, 1899 to Mattie A. POPE.
     F. Mary Eleanor STONE (b. Jan 19, 1881)
     G. Cora Lee STONE (b. March 22, 1884)
     H. Ethel Clara STONE (b. Nov 18, 1885, Wilson Co. TN) m. Oct 26, 1905 to 
        Charles  Alexander CARTER Sr. (son of Leroy CARTER and Euailia _ b. May 20, 1886, 
        Trousdale Co. TN)
     I. Thruman Johnson STONE (b. Oct 5, 1888, d. Oct 26, 1954) m. May 10, 1908 to 
        Gertrude Anges SWINDELL (dau of Thomas Albert SWINDELL and 
        Margaret SKELTON b. Jan 31, 1894, Wilson Co. TN, d. Feb 10, 1959, Lebanon, TN)
     J. James Nealey Hiram STONE (b. Feb 22, 1891) m. Dec. 3, 1916 to Mary Sue DIES (daughter of 
        Isham Cato DIES and Lottie Goodall BELL)
     K. Alice Eugenia STONE (b. Feb 14, 1895)

5. Son born dead 1843.

6. Mary Elizabeth STONE (b. Aug 10, 1845).

7. Tabitha Frances STONE (b. Nov 17, 1847, d. Apr 24, 1918) m. 1868 or 69 to James Bryant
(Jimmy) WARD (son fo Bryant WARD and Mary Tinley MURPHY, b. Mar 18, 1850, died
March 9, 1886)
     A. Andrew Bryant WARD (b. Dec 29, 1870, d. Aug 1, 1926) m. Apr 20, 1892, to Martha
        Elizabeth CAPLENOR (b. Sept 27, 1872, d. May 15, 1938)

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