Stephen
Turner Stone, son of William
Stone and Elizabeth Ann ?? , was born October 12,1750 in Caroline Co,
Virginia. He married Kezziah A. ?? . He died April 16, 1838 in Gallatin, Sumner
Co, TN. Kezziah A. ?? was born 1754 in Virginia. She died 1836 in
Gallatin, Sumner Co, Tennessee.
They are buried in the Stone-Baulch Cemetery.
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1. Eusebius Stone
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2. Stephen Stone |
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Name: Stephen Turner
Stone , Sr
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Born: October 12,
1750 Caroline Co, Virginia
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Died: April 16,
1838 Gallatin, Sumner Co, TN
Buried: Stone-Baulch Cemetery, north of Gallatin, TN, marked
Stephen Stone,Sr was born on 12-OCT-1750 in Caroline Co,
Virginia. About 1770 Stephen Stone,Sr married and moved just south
of Caroline County to Hanover Co, Virginia. The wife of
Stephen Stone,Sr was Kezziah A. ?? who lived from 1754 to
1836. Her maiden name is not known.
Cousin Lorraine Joy has pointed out that perhaps Kezziah was
Keziah Oliver, the daughter of John Oliver and Mary Wyatt
who was born on 05-APR-1754 according to page 146 of the Overwharton
Parish Register of Stafford Co, Virginia.
Keziah Oliver F.1754-
John Oliver M. -
Mary Wyatt F. -
Stephen Stone,Sr served a total of six months as a Private in the
forces from Virginia during the Revolutionary War under Captain
William Overton Winston and a Captain Hardiman. Nothing else
is known about the Captain Hardiman.
Captain Hardiman M. -
William Overton Winston M. -1804
William Overton Winston was a close cousin to the patriot Patrick
Henry who was the most notable politician from Hanover County.
There can be no doubt that Stephen Stone,Sr during the thirty or
so years that he lived in Hanover Co, Virginia either knew Patrick
Henry or had heard him give a speech.
About 1800 most of the Stephen Stone,Sr family moved to Sumner
Co, Tennessee. Tennessee had just become a state in 1796. Prior to
1796 Tennessee was part of North Carolina. Sumner County which is
located north and east of Nashville on the Cumberland River had been
established in 1786 and was the most populous county in Tennessee in
those early days of statehood. The town of Gallatin which was and is
the county seat of Sumner County was started in 1801. Gallatin is
pronounced with the accent on the first syllable.
Stephen Stone,Sr died on 16-APR-1838 at the age of eighty-eight in
Sumner Co, Tennessee. He and his wife, Kezziah A. ?? are
buried in the old Stone-Baulch Cemetery one and three tenths miles
north of the city limits of Gallatin, Tennessee on Highway 109 about
500 feet east on the property of Charles Cantrell just south of
Computer Lane.
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CHAPTER: 008: Obituary of Stephen Stone,Sr
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The following is the obituary for Stephen Stone,Sr. It appeared in
the UNION PAPER at Gallatin, Tennessee on 27-APR-1838. D. C.
Gaskill was the editor and publisher of the newspaper.
D. C. Gaskill M. -
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OBITUARY
MR GASKILL---
While we treasure a remembrance of the amiable virtues and brilliant
talents of the statesman and divine who have slept the sleep of death,
we would not forget those who are justly called the bone and sinew of
society, (viz:) the honest farmer. STEPHEN STONE, sen. the subject of
this memoir lived to the advanced age of eighty eight years, forty of
which was spent in the service of his God. He lived during that time
an acceptable member of the Methodist Church: so living as to
constrain those around him to acknowledge him not only the honest man,
but the Christian, and finished his race on the 16th of April, in full
assurance of an inheritance which awaited him at the right hand of
God. "Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be
like his."
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CHAPTER: 009: Pension Papers for Stephen Stone,Sr
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The following are the papers submitted by Stephen Stone,Sr as his
application for a Revolutionary War service pension. Minor changes in
punctuation, spelling and grammar have been made to make it more
readable. Stephen Stone,Sr is referred to by the designation S3966
on his pension papers. For his Revolutionary War service he was
allowed a pension of twenty dollars per year retroactive to
04-MAR-1831. One of the supplementary papers indicates that Stephen
Stone was in no battle.
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State of Tennessee
Sumner County, SS
On this 22nd day of August A.D. 1832 there personally appeared in open
court before William Edwards, Thomas Anderson and John L. Swaney,
Esquires, Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quartersession of said
county now sitting, Stephen Stone.
Stephen Stone is a resident citizen of said county, aged eighty
one or two years, having lost the register of his age. He, being first
duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress
passed the 7th of June, 1832.
That the applicant entered the service first in the year 1776 or 1777
in Hanover County, State of Virginia as a drafted militia man for
the term of three months. And, that he joined his company at
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Hanover Courthouse and was commanded by Captain William
Winston. And, that he was marched from Hanover Courthouse down
to Williamsburg and was stationed there while his term of service
expired when he was discharged.
After this the applicant was drafted as many as four times for the
term of three months each and hired a man to take his place as it was
not convenient for him to leave his family. Sometime, he believes, in
the year 1781 he was again drafted for the term of three months. And,
that he was mustered into service at Richmond, that the company he
belonged to was commanded by Captain Hardiman, that he was a
stranger to the applicant and he does not recollect his given name.
The regiment or the field officer he does not recollect. And, that he
continued at Richmond during his term of service when he was
discharged. He does not know what has become of his discharge.
And that he was born in Caroline County, State of Virginia, about
the year 1750. That, he resided in Hanover County when he entered
service. That, he removed from Hanover County to Sumner
County, Tennessee, where he now resides and has lived for more than
thirty years. That, he has no written or documentary evidence of his
service, that he was in... He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name
is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to in open court his
August 22, 1832. Stephen X Stone
A. H. Douglass, Clerk mark
I John Tinsley, residing in Sumner County, hereby certify that
I am well acquainted with Stephen Stone who has sworn and
subscribed the above declaration for a pension. And, that we believe
him to be eighty one or two years of age. And, that he is reputed and
believed to be a soldier of the Revolution in the neighborhood where
he resides and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to in open court John Tinsley
August 22, 1832
A. H. Douglass, Clerk
We, Joseph B. Wynne, a clergyman, and Alfred H. Douglass hereby
certify that we are well acquainted with Stephen Stone who has
subscribed and sworn the above declaration for a pension, and that we
know him to be a man of unexceptionable Moral Character and that any
statement of his would be entitled to full credit.
Sworn to in open court Joseph B. Wynne
August 22, 1832 A. H. Douglass
A. H. Douglass, Clerk
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John Tinsley M. -
John Tinsley who testified in support of Stephen Stone's
pension application may have been a relative of Cornelius Tinsley
and Frances Stone Tinsley. Frances Stone Tinsley was a
daughter of Stephen Stone,Sr. He may have been the John
Tinsley who was a Revolutionary War veteran living in Sumner
County.
Joseph B. Wynne was a Methodist minister who had been at New Salem
Methodist Church, north of Gallatin. This church was founded in 1828
and was attended by the Nicholas Stone family and by Stephen
Stone,Sr and his wife. Nicholas Stone was a son of Stephen
Stone,Sr. Nicholas Stone was on the board of this church at
the time that Joseph B. Wynne was minister there. Beside this church
is a cemetery which today is called Old Salem Church Cemetery and has
several Stone family members buried in it.
Stephen Stone - He was born 12 Oct 1750 in Caroline Co., Virginia. He
married Kezziah A. ? about 1770 and had at least four children, William
Nicholas Stone, Dorothy Stone, Stephen Stone, Jr., and Eusibious Stone.
Stephen died 16 Apr 1838 in Sumner Co., Tennessee.
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Name: Kezziah A. ??
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Born: 1754 Virginia
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Died: 1836 Gallatin,
Sumner Co, Tennessee
Buried Stone-Baulch Cemetery, north of Gallatin, TN, marked
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