Stephen Stone\Mary Loving "Polly"

Stephen Stone, son of Stephen Turner Stone and Kezziah A. ?? , . He married Mary Loving "Polly" . Mary Loving "Polly".

Children of Stephen Stone and Mary Loving "Polly" are:

1. Stephen McKendree Stone
2. Nicholas Munro Stone, b. November 08, 1825	See Rhoda M. Hamilton & Nicholas Munro Stone

Notes for Stephen Stone:

· Name: Stephen Stone , Jr

Stephen Stone,Jr was a son of Stephen Stone,Sr and his wife
Kizziah A. ??. Stephen Stone,Jr was born in Hanover Co,
Virginia in 1785. About the year 1800 most of the Stone family moved
to Sumner Co, Tennessee.

On 24-DEC-1803 Stephen Stone,Jr married Mary Loving who went
by the name Polly. She was born in 1787 in Sumner County before
statehood when Tennessee was still part of North Carolina.

Stephen Stone,Jr and his wife Mary Loving had a total of
fourteen children of whom ten lived to adulthood. She died on
02-AUG-1833 and was buried in the Stone Cemetery on their land located
about halfway on the road between Gallatin and Cairo. The town of
Cairo was located on the Cumberland River and was about five miles
east and a little south of Gallatin, Tennessee.

On 23-DEC-1836 Stephen Stone,Jr married Sarah Essex Schabell
in Sumner County. They had no children together, and she died the
following year.

Stephen Stone,Jr died on 17-MAR-1862 in Sumner Co, Tennessee.
There is a strong probability that he is buried in the old Stone
Cemetery which is located on land he had southeast of Gallatin. His
first wife is buried in this cemetery and has a marker. Since he died
during the Civil War he very probably was buried beside her but
had only a wooden marker which has long since gone.

At the time Stephen Stone,Jr died the Civil War was in full fury.
Only eighty miles west of Gallatin, in Sumner Co, was Fort
Donelson, in Stewart Co. Fort Donelson, a major Confederate fort
on the Cumberland River, was taken by Union forces under Ulysses S.
Grant in February 1862. This loss led to the domination of Middle
Tennessee by Union forces. There were fifteen thousand Confederate
soldiers taken prisoner after the fall of Fort Donelson. Included in
these men were at least six who were grand sons, nephews or great
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nephews of Stephen Stone,Jr. Stephen Stone,Jr died after the
Union soldiers occupied Gallatin and before the terrible conflict at
Shiloh, in Hardin Co, in April 1862 when Confederate forces under
P. G. T. Beauregard would have crushed the Union forces under
Ulysses S. Grant except for the arrival during the night of
reinforcement Union forces under Don Carlos Buell.
Ulysses S. Grant b.Point Pleasant, Ohio M.1822-1885
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard b.Louisiana CSA M.1818-1893
Don Carlos Buell b.Lowell, Ohio CSA M.1818-1898

Notes for Mary Loving "Polly":

· Name: Mary Loving "Polly"

Notes for Stephen McKendree Stone:

· Name: Stephen McKendree Stone

Stephen McKendree Stone was born 09-JAN-1824 on the Stephen
Stone,Jr home place between Gallatin and the town of Cairo in
Sumner Co, Tennessee. He was the son of Stephen Stone,Jr and
Mary Loving.

He was almost certainly given the middle name McKendree after William
McKendree, also of Sumner County. William McKendree was
appointed by Bishop Francis Asbury to be the second Bishop for the
United States for the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1808.
William McKendree REV M.1757-1835
Francis Asbury "First Methodist Bishop for US" M.1745-1816

The Stone family had been strong Methodists since 1798. On 17-OCT-1861
Stephen McKendree Stone married Sarah Katherine Moore who was
born on 30-NOV-1836 in Sumner County.

During the Civil War Stephen McKendree Stone served with Company A
of the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry Battalion of the Confederate States
of America. Company A was organized on 19-OCT-1861 at Hartsville,
Tennessee which at that time was in Sumner County but which today
is in Trousdale County. This occurred two days after Stephen
McKendree Stone was married. Sometimes this battalion is called
Smith's Cavalry. He only stayed in service a few months because of
poor eyesight.

In 1868 the Stephen McKendree Stone family moved to Union City in
Obion Co, Tennessee where his younger brother, Nicholas Munro
Stone had moved with his family late in 1867. His wife Sarah
Katherine Moore Stone was one of the eight founding ladies of
Pleasant Valley Methodist Church in Union City.

Stephen McKendree Stone died in Obion Co, Tennessee on
20-FEB-1889 and is buried with his wife in City View Cemetery in Union
City. She lived until 03-MAY-1909. They had six children.

Many descendants of Stephen McKendree Stone still live in Union
City in Obion Co, Tennessee.

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