Miss Harriette S. Stone, widow of Redmond Stone, is a lady of large business capacity and marked intelligence, and is distinguished in the records of  Comanche County for her straight forward and womanly course no less than for the tact and energy she has employed in her business affairs since her husband's death, on the 15th of November, 1885.

Redmond Stone was a native of Arkansas, and came to Texas as a young man with his family, locating in Erath County, where his mother died about 1864. He was twice married, his first wife dying in 1862. They had five children, but William A., a farmer of Comanche county, is the only one now living. In 1861 Mr. Stone entered the Confederate army, and was in the frontier service until the close of the war. In the fall of 1863 was celebrated his marriage with Miss Harriette Sanders, of this review, and the following year he moved to Comanche, where he was employed at different occupations. Before the war he mainly engaged in herding cattle. In 1873 he pre-empted one hundred sixty acres of land in Comanche county, upon which he  moved, and to its improvement and cultivation devoted his entire time and attention until his death, having at that time about sixty acres under the plow. His wife has since continued that work, and now seventy-five acres are under a high state of cultivation. He was a faithful member of the Methodist church, was a Master Mason, and had the confidence and respect of all who knew him.

 Mrs. Stone was born on the 24th day of March, 1846 in Illinois. Her father, who was the son of J. Sanders, was also a native of the same state, and came to Texas in 1851, settling in Fannin County, where he left his family while he spent four years in California. In 1858 he removed to Jack county, Texas, and  and after spending some there went to Missouri. He is now living in Arkansas, at the ripe old age of seventy-four years, and has there carried on his occupation of farming. He is a Royal Arch Mason and a prominent member of the Baptist Church. James Sanders, the only brother of our subject, was killed by Indians in Parker county, Texas, in 1865, and her only sister died while young.

 Mrs. Stone is the mother of seven children: Martha E., wife of J. H. Cooper, and agriculturist; Enoch J., engaged in farming in Indian Territory; Susan, wife of J. J. Town, a blacksmith of De Leon; Jonathan and David, twins, now seventeen years old; Nora and Thomas J. She also lost three children when they were young. She is a lady of pleasant address, who has gained many friends throughout the county, and is much loved by every one whom she comes in contact for her gentle ways and genial manner, and is a consistent member of the Christian church.

(History of Texas: Supplemented with Biographical Mention of many Families of the State: A Concise History of the State from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Date: Together with Biographical Sketches of the Families of Central Texas, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1896, Volume 1, Pages 89 and 90.)