Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 433-434 [Hickman]

     THOMAS R. STONE, a successful and well known farmer of Hickman
county, Kentucky, was born in that county October 28, 1851, and is a son
of James A. and Sarah A. (Gwyn) Stone, the former of whom was born in
Todd county, Tennessee.  The paternal grandfather, Thomas Stone, was born
in Rockingham county, North Carolina, and was of Scotch ancestry. The
maternal grandfather, John Gwyn, was born in the same county and state,
but came of Welsh ancestry, and he participated in the war of 1812 under
Andrew Jackson and was in the battle of New Orleans.  Thomas Stone was
educated at Richmond, Virginia, and taught school until his health
failed, when he became a farmer.  He was justice of the peace for the
Clinton district from 1851 to 1871, and then declined to serve any
longer.
     James A. Stone was a wagon-maker by trade, but did not follow his
calling to any great extent, making farming his chief business in life. 
From the time he was ten years of age he lived in Hickman county,
Kentucky, his parents having come here in 1838.  He was one of the stanch
Democrats in that locality.  His death occurred July 15, 1901, when he
was seventy-one years of age, and he died firm in the faith of the
Methodist church.  The mother is still living, aged seventy-eight years
and makes her home with the subject.  Six children were born to the
parents, namely: Thomas R.; Mary M., deceased, married W. J. Jackson;
Edna O., who married J. M. Henderson; Henry B., deceased; Sarah N., who
married N. B. Elliott; Virginia, deceased.
     Thomas R. Stone was reared and educated in his native county.  He
has always followed farming, and now owns a fine farm of sixty acres in
Hickman county, Kentucky.  His start in life was a small one, but he and
his wife economized and contrived and are now well provided for.  In
politics, like his father, he is a Democrat, and is a Methodist.
    In 1888 he was married to Miss Eudora Phillips, who was born in
Carroll county, Tennessee.  Her parents moved to Fulton county, Kentucky,
when she was quite small, and she gained her education in the public
schools there.  Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Stone,
namely: Henry, deceased; Mary, Ruth, James E., John R., Clarence, Mattie
B., Frances.  Both Mr. and Mrs. Stone are noted for their many excellent
qualities, and their devotion to each other and their children.

Stone Gwyn Jackson Henderson Elliott Phillips
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Todd-TN Rockingham-NC VA Carroll-TN Fulton-KY

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