STONE GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr
My earliest Stone connection comes from either New Jersey, Virginia, or Maryland in the early 1700s. For many years I have been trying to locate the parentage and siblings of my Sarah Ann (Stone) Woolverton, but so far without any luck. There is a Sarah Stone of about the right age who was a close relative of Rev. Barton Warren Stone who helped to establish the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). His Stone family lived in Pittsylvania County, Virginia and many others of the same counties where my Woolvertons, Dodsons, Hankses, and related families lived, so I think there is still a possibility that he could be related somehow.
One source of Stone information from all over the U.S. is the book Stone Connections by Robert H. Stone. Springfield, MO: Largent Printing, 1995. The author lives in Springfield, Missouri, which is the same town where I live. A Sarah Stone is found on page 38 and living in Stafford County, Virginia. Mr. Stone does not list a husband for Sarah, but I wonder if this couldn't have been the same Sarah Stone who married Andrew Woolverton. This Sarah Stone, was the daughter of Barton Stone and Sarah Speake and a granddaughter of Matthew Stone and Rachel Smoot. (I am interested in this Smoot connection also, because Smoots intermarried with the Hanks and Durham families that I descend from. See my Smoot Family Lineage for further information on the Smoots.)
This Sarah Stone was a first cousin of Rev. Barton Warren Stone whose family lived in Pittsylvania Co., VA, Somerset County, MD, and Williamson Co., TN, among other places. These Stones were descended from the "Stones of Poynton Manor" in Maryland of which much has been written. William Stone, b. 1603 Northampton, England, was the Third Proprietary Governor of Maryland, serving from 1648 to 1655.
Rev. Barton Warren Stone is also mentioned in the book The Stones of Poynton Manor by Harry Wright Newman. Privately published, 1937. This is a good source on the Stones of Charles County, Maryland and their descendants.
Here is the lineage of Rev. Barton Warren Stone for those who are interested:
- William STONE de Twiste, b. ca. 1490 England, d. ?; md. Elizabeth BRADLEY of County Lancashire, England (He was issued a coat of arms.)
- Richard STONE, b. ca. 1540 England, d. 1605 England (was knighted by Charles I of England); md. Isabel GIRDLER on 12 Jan. 1572
- John STONE, b. ca. 1575 England, d. 8 Aug. 1606 England; md. 1st, Dorothy ____; md. 2nd, _______
- William STONE, b. 1603 Northampton, England, d. ca. 1660 MD (Third Proprietary Governor of Maryland); md. 1st, Verlinda COTTON; md. 2nd, Joan _____
- John STONE, b. 1642, d. 1698 (was a sheriff & Burgess of Charles Co., MD); md. 1st, Elizabeth ____; md. 2nd, Eleanor BAYNE
- Matthew STONE, b. 1679, d. 1750; md. Rachel SMOOT
- John STONE, b. 1714, d. 1775 Pittsylvania Co., VA; md. 2nd, Mary ____ (a widow)
- Rev. Barton Warren STONE, b. 1772. d. 1844 Hannibal, MO; md. 1st, Eliza CAMPBELL in 1801; md. 2nd, Celia BOWEN in 1811.
Here is my STONE lineage as far as I can determine from traditional records of the Woolverton family:
- Sarah Ann STONE, b. ca. 1760, d. ca. 1800 Somerset, Pulaski Co., KY; md. ca. 1780 to Andrew WOOLVERTON, b. ca. 1750 Hunterdon Co., NJ, d. ca. 1812 Maury Co., TN
- James Matthew WOOLVERTON, b. 12 May 1797 Somerset, Pulaski Co., KY, d. 24 July 1878 McNairy Co., TN; md. 22 Sept. 1817 Columbia, Maury Co., TN to Agatha WILLIAMS, b. 2 June 1802 Maury Co., TN, d. 13 July 1874 McNairy Co., TN (both buried in Woolverton Cemetery near Adamsville, Tennessee)
- Nancy Artemisia WOOLVERTON, b. 28 Aug. 1829 Maury Co., TN, d. 24 Jan. 1926 Adamsville, McNairy Co., TN; md. 28 Dec. 1848 Jonesborough, Tippah Co., MS to Luther Rice LITTLEFIELD, b. 25 Dec. 1826 Spartanburg, Spartansburg Co., SC, d. 25 Mar. 1903 Adamsville, McNairy Co., TN (both buried in Adamsville Cemetery)
- Sarah Agatha LITTLEFIELD, b. 28 Oct. 1849 Jonesborough, Tippah Co., MS, d. 7 Feb. 1940 Leapwood, McNairy Co., TN; md. 18 Oct. 1868 McNairy Co., TN to William Ashley HARRIS, b. 19 May 1849 Hardin Co., TN, d. 12 Mar. 1916 McNairy Co., TN (both buried at Mars Hill Cemetery, McNairy Co., TN)
- James David HARRIS, b. 9 Jan. 1871 McNairy Co., TN, d. 22 Sept. 1938 Marlow, Stephens Co., OK; md. 28 Oct. 1894 McNairy Co., TN to Docia Bell PYRON, b. 5 Oct. 1872 McNairy Co., TN, d. 1 Sept. 1944 Lyford, Willacy Co., TX
- William Earl HARRIS, b. 8 Aug. 1895 McNairy Co., TN, d. 5 Jan. 1967 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO; md. 12 Dec. 1915 Parker Co., TX to Orpha Antonia Hazel GARVIN, b. 11 Nov. 1895 Jack Co., TX, d. 21 Dec. 1979 Cortez, Montezuma Co., CO (They are both buried in the Dove Creek Cemetery, Dove Creek, CO) *These are my grandparents.
If you have queries concerning the Stone surname, you may post these at the Stone Family Genealogy List that is managed by Dana Thomas.
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There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the STONE surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Stone Message Boards.
Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any STONE name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.
An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the STONE family on GenForum. It can be found at the following address:
***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the STONE lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.
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