Rhoda
M. Hamilton. He married Nicholas Munro
Stone . Nicholas Munro Stone, daughter of Stephen
Stone and Mary Loving "Polly" , was born November 08, 1825 in
Sumner Co, Tennessee.
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Name: Rhoda M. Hamilton
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Name: Nicholas Munro
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Born: November 08,
1825 Sumner Co, Tennessee
Nicholas Munro Stone was born on 08-NOV-1825 in Sumner Co,
Tennessee. He went by the name Munro or Monroe as it was often
misspelled. Sumner County is north and slightly east of Nashville.
His father was Stephen Stone,Jr and his mother was Mary "Polly"
Loving.
On 23-NOV-1847 Nicholas Munro Stone married Rhoda M. Hamilton
who was born in Sumner Co, Tennessee on 06-OCT-1823. Nicholas
Munro Stone and Rhoda M. Hamilton had five children of whom
three lived to maturity and had descendants. Only two of their
children have descendants living today.
Prior to the Civil War the Nicholas Munro Stone family lived east
of Gallatin towards Cairo near the old Stephen Stone,Jr home
place. He worked as a blacksmith and kept livestock used for breeding.
After the Civil War in late 1867 they moved to Union City in Obion
County in far northwest Tennessee.
In Union City in 1875 his wife, Rhoda M. Hamilton Stone, along
with his two daughters, Susan Mary Stone Ward and Liola Elizabeth
Stone, and along with his widowed sister, Elizabeth Stone
Adams, his daughter-in-law, Mary Amanda Hampton Stone, and his
sister-in-law, Sarah Katherine Moore Stone, all helped found
Pleasant Valley Methodist Church just south of Union City.
In March of 1881 the Nicholas Munro Stone family moved to
Denton Co, Texas. Nicholas Munro Stone died on the 22-OCT-1896
in Denton, Denton Co, Texas and was buried in Prairie Mound
Cemetery near Argyle in Denton Co, Texas. Rhoda M. Hamilton
Stone died in Denton, Texas on 08-FEB-1911 at age eighty-seven and was
buried at Prairie Mound Cemetery which is southwest of Denton.
In Denton Co, Texas Nicholas Munro Stone and his wife lived in
a dugout or sod house. Each fall they would pile a new layer of dirt
on the sides and the top of the sod house to get ready for the winter
to be followed by the Spring rains. Their grand daughter Nina Lee
Smith Rogers remembered visiting the sod house when she was a
little girl.
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Name: Susan Mary Stone
Susan Mary Stone was born in Gallatin, Tennessee on 22-SEP-1848
and died in Norman, Oklahoma on 17-JUL-1939. She was the daughter of
Nicholas Munro Stone and Rhoda M. Hamilton. They lived in
Gallatin, Tennessee in Sumner County. In late 1867 the whole
Nicholas Munro Stone family moved from Gallatin to Union City in
Obion Co, Tennessee. Union City is in the far northwest corner of
Tennessee and is only thirty miles east of the Mississippi River. This
Stone family had been strong Methodists since 1798 when Nicholas Munro
Stone's grandfather, Stephen Stone,Sr had become one.
On 11-NOV-1869 Susan Mary Stone married James T. Ward who was
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born in Obion Co, Tennessee on 25-APR-1835 and who died there on
28-AUG-1876. He was thirteen years older and had been in Company B of
the Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry for the Confederacy during the Civil War.
The fact that his unit had been under the dynamic General Nathan
Bedford Forrest during the Civil War made him seem all the more
dashing. It was considered quite a distinction for a Confederate
veteran to be able to say: "I rode with Forrest".
The bondsman for Susan Mary Stone in her marriage to James T.
Ward was her first cousin Pleasant Worth Wilson.
Between 1870 and 1876 Susan Mary Stone Ward and her husband James
T. Ward had five children, a boy and four girls, all of whom were
born in Union City. The five children were Baxter, Virgie, Orra, Lula,
and Leola. Their youngest daughter, Leola who was always called Ola,
was born on 02-JAN-1876. On 28-AUG-1876 James T. Ward died leaving
Susan Mary Stone Ward a widow at twenty-seven years of age with
five small children all under six years of age. On 29-AUG-1876 Charles
Baxter Ward, who was called Bud at the time, turned six the day
after his father died. James T. Ward is buried at Bethlehem
Cemetery which is about two miles north of Union City in Obion Co,
Tennessee. It is believed that James T. Ward died of one of the
many diseases which plagued the South after the Civil War.
In 1881 the entire extended Nicholas Munro Stone family moved to
Denton Co, Texas by covered wagon. It is now known that various
cousins of his had been living in north central Texas since Texas was
still a republic. Susan Mary Stone Ward and her five children were
in the covered wagon. Her sister Liola Elizabeth Stone was
travelling with them. Her brother John Richard Stone and his wife,
Mary Amanda Hampton Stone, and son were along. Elizabeth Stone
Adams who was an aunt to Susan Mary Stone Ward was along too.
On the way they had to cross the Trinity River, in Texas, which was
quite swollen from spring rains. The wagon and horses became
unmanageable and her father, Nicholas Munro Stone, who was the man
in charge, had to get out of the wagon to lead the horses by hand to
control them so the wagon would not be lost in the river.
Carvis Hasten remembered hearing this story many years ago from
his Grandmother Lula Frances Ward Nowlin who as a seven year old
daughter of Susan Mary Stone Ward was in the covered wagon.
Carvis Odell Hasten \SISLMC M.1916-1993
On 12-NOV-1884 Susan Mary Stone Ward married Benjamin Butler
Beaird who was a widower in Denton Co, Texas. In 1888 they
moved into Greer County which at that time was claimed by the
state of Texas but which today is in Oklahoma. Curiously, Ben
Beaird was a distant cousin of the Beaird family in Union City,
Tennessee.
On 13-JUN-1891 Susan Mary Stone Ward Beaird gave birth to another
son, Jesse Butler Beaird. She and her husband, Benjamin Butler
Beaird, were down in a storm cellar half filled with water when
she started giving birth to their son. A severe tornado storm must
have been raging outside. Her husband was overcome by the total stress
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of the situation and lay down on the other bed in the cellar. Very
tragically the next day her husband Benjamin Butler Beaird died of
what is believed to have been a stroke. Susan Mary Stone Ward
Beaird lived from 22-SEP-1848 until 17-JUL-1939.
From about 1920 on she and her daughter Virgia Abigail Ward lived
in Norman, Cleveland County, Oklahoma.
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