1. NOTES FOR REUBEN STONE

CENSUS:  1840 Pulaski County Missouri P 204

CENSUS:  1850 Pulaski County Missouri P 92 B D 292
          Reuben G. Stone  24 m w Farmer   b Ala


22 August 1867 R. G. Stone registered to vote in Comanche County, Tx
 He stated he had lived in the state 13 years, in the county 1 years and 
the Precinct one, 1 year and was a native of Missouri.

CENSUS:  1880 Llano County, Texas P 6 D 44  Pc #3
          Stone, Rubin  w m 56  married  Stock Raiser  Tex  Ala  Ind

"Old Frontier Times" Jan & Feb 1930
 R. G. Stone helped organize the old Macedonia Baptist in July 1852 along 
with Rev. John Gibson, on the east side of Walnut Creek, Blanco County.  
R. G. Stone settled on Walnut Creek in Blanco Co. six miles from the 
Gibson's in llano Co. Texas.

"Blanco County Families for 100 Years" by John Stribling  Pub 1958
  Stone, R. G. (Reuben Gilmore)--Rev. R. G. Stone and family had lived in 
Pulaski County, Missouri, prior to coming to Texas about 1853.  The Stone 
family came with Rev. John Gibson and family who settled in the Pecan 
Creek community  R. G. Stone probably lived in the Pecan Creek community 
for a time and then settled with his family on west Walnut Creek of Blanco 
County, where later, the Charlie Haynes family lived.
  He was one of the first members of the Walnut-Creek Baptist Church which 
was organized in August, 1855.  Rev. Stone moved to Squaw Creek in 
Gillespie County in 1972, whre he was pastor of a church.  He later went to 
Loyal Valley in Mason County.  He preached in Gillespie, Mason and 
Llano Counties.  He died about 1896.  Some of his children were: 
1. Mrs. Eliza Johnson of Alamogordo, New Mexico; Mrs Carolyn Yoast, 
Las Cruces, New Mexico and Mrs. Matilda Kidd, Loyal Valley, Texas  
(died in 1929)  In that year, he did not render any land but 2 cattle valued 
at $25 and paid a poll tax of fifty cents.  On the Supplement for 1855, he 
rendered 160 acres of the R. G. Stone Preemption on Walnut, a triutary of 
Sandy.  In 1856, Reuben G. Stone appears again on the Gillespie County 
tax roll with the ownership of 160 acres of the Reuben G. Stone Preemption 
land grant on Walnut Creek, a tributary of Sandy Creek, valued at $160.  
He paid a poll tax of fifty cents. The Reuben G. Stone Preemption grant 
is clearly located in the northern part of present Blance County near 
Walnut Creek and sust south of the Z. Taylor land grant which touches 
the boundary line of Blanco and Llano Counties.
  In 1857, R. G. Stone appears on the Gillespie County tas roll with 160 
acres of the R. G. Stone Preemption grant, on Walnut Creek, a tributary 
of Sandy and paid a poll tax of fifty cents for tha year.  In 1858, he appears 
on the Llano County tax roll with 160 acres of the R. G. Stone land grant 
valued at $160. This tract is identified as Class 3 land grant, Survey 677, 
on Walnut Creek. His other property included 20 cattle valued at $120.  
R. G. Stone appears again on the Llano County tax roll for 1859 with the 
following amounts of property: 160 acres of the R.G. Stone's Preemption 
land gant valued at $160, identified as a Class 3 land grant, Survey 677, 
on Walnut Creek; 30 cattle, $180.  His total propery value was $340 and 
he paid a poll tax of fifty cents. R. G. Stone appears on the Llano County 
tax roll for 1860 with the following amounts of property:  160 acres of the 
R. G. Stone land grant valued at $160; 2 horses, $60; 30 cattle, $180.  
His total property value was $400 and he paid a poll tax of fifty cents.

"Pioneers  of Llano County:  P 7 R. G. Stone  1854

BURIED: Llano Cemetery, Llano, Tx

SOURCE:  Mason County History Book, Mason County Historical 
Commission  1976 .
 ..Walnut Creek and Pecan Creek (now called Round Mountain, he was 
part of a religious settlement that had migrated from Pulaski County, 
Missouri.  Reuben Gilmore Stone was the pastor of the Baptist Church 
whose members had founded this settlement.
...The Stone & Kidd families moved further west, first settling on Hickory 
Creek near House Mountain in Western Llano County.
...The amilies built cabins two miles east of Loyal Valley, in Mason 
County, on Cold Spring Creek around 1869.
...In 1871, Indian pressure kept incrasing and forced them to settle in 
the townsite of Loyal Valley on Lot #10, for which Reuben Stone obtained 
a deed. ..
 .p252 The John Stone family moved to Missouri in the late 1830's finally 
settling in Pulaski County in 1840.
The Friendship Baptist Church was organized in the home of John Stone 
in 1844. The Early minutes of the church records show that the meeting 
was presided over by Reverend John M. Chaudon.  Others attending 
were John and James Gibson, Ambrose Y. Stone, Margaret Gibson, 
Sidney Stone, Celia and Reuben G. Stone, Mary Davidson, and Olivia 
Catherine Robertson.  Records show that services were held regularly 
at the Stone home with Reuben Stone or one of the Gibson brothers in 
the pulpit.
...about 1850, the Reuben Stone family and most of the congrigation of 
the church moved to Texas, traveling by wagon train through the Ozark 
Mountains and the Indian reservations of the Cherokee, Choctaw and 
the Seminoles.
...The Stone family, along with move of the members of the wagon train 
settled north of Austin on Walnut Creek which was a tributary of the 
Colorado River. Records show that the Friendship Baptist Church was 
reorganized in 1854.  John Stone, Reuben Stone, John Gibson and 
William Cansler were on the building committee for a new church.  
Formal organization of the new church was the first Sunday in August 
1855.  It was christened Little Hope, but in reality was only a 
continuation of the old church that had its beginning in Pulaski-Maries 
County, Missouri in 1844.  The Name was changed again to Pecan Creek 
Church in 1859 under which name it continued until the outbreak of the 
Civil Way, when meetings were suspended in January, 1862.  
The church was reorganized after the war under the name of Macedonia 
and was still in existence in the 1940's and was serving the area which 
is now known as Round Mountain, Texas.
...The Reuben Stone family lived in the Walnut-Pecan Creek community 
for a time and then settled on West Walnut Creek on the County Line of 
Blanco and Llano Counties.  A land grant was issued to Reuben Stone 
in 1852 and records Jan. 31, 1855, on file in the Land Office in Austin, 
Texas, show that he lived on and cultivated this land for a period of three 
years at which time it became legally his.  In the middle 1860's the family 
moved to Gillespie County where he was a pastor of a Baptist Church.  
In later years, the Reuben Stone family moved about in Mason and Llano 
Counties and established many homeplaces, many of them near their 
children and their families.  Records show that at one time they owned 
a lot in the old townsite of Loyal Valley, Mason County, Texas, and the 
pasture adjoining the Reuben Kidd (a grandson) place on the east is still 
known as the Stone pasture to oldtimers. (End of notes for RG Stone)

2.  NOTES FOR JOHN STONE

CENSUS:  1840 Pulaski Co. Missouri p 204
          lived next door to Wright Ligh & Thomas Gipson all went to Texas
          together.
PULASKI COUNTY MISSOURI:
(John Stone p 204 was not listed on index, they missed him. mlb)

204  STONE, JOHN          Males:    1-15 to 20; 1-50 to 60    
                          Females:  1-50 to 60  
206  STONE, AMBROZE Y.    Males:    1-20 to 30                
                          Females:  1-under 5; 1-20 to 30 
CENSUS;  1850 Pulaski County, Mo. p 094
094    JOHN STONE         60 m w Farmer          SC           
       Elizabeth          50*f w                 NC           
       John Palmos        30 m w Laborer         NC

Moved from Alabama to Osage Co. Mo in the late 1830's

(MAY BE THE JOHN STONE LISTED IN THE 1830 CENSUS OF PIKE CO. AL p 73)

3. NOTES FOR WILLIAM STONE
"Blazing the Way  History of Comanche County, Texas" by Wells
  Among the first settlers in Proctor (Walnut Creek):  William (Col. Bill)
  Stone, & M. Stone.

CENSUS: 1870 Comanche County, Texas p 182
         William  53 m w Dry Goods Merchant b AL   married

              Mary Bonsal