History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
654.

WILLIAM S. STONE, Owensboro, was born June 21, 1827, in Fredericksburg, 
Va.  He is a son of William and Agnes (Benson) Stone, both natives of 
Virginia, the former born in Fredericksburg and the latter in Culpeper 
County.  At five years of age the subject of this sketch removed with 
his parents to Franklin County, Ky.  He attended a boarding-school in 
Franklin County.  He was reared to the life of a farmer.  In 1845 he 
removed with his father's family to Daviess County.  They lived first 
five miles northeast of Owensboro; then moved to their farm in the Beach 
Woods, where he lived till 1859.  In that year moved to a farm fifteen 
miles west of Owensboro, where he remained till 1867.  After his slaves, 
numbering twenty-eight, were freed, he tried farming for two years, but 
did not readily fall into the way of conducting his place with paid 
labor, and therefore abandoned the business.  He then went into the 
Sheriff's office as Deputy, which place he filled four years.  Then, in 
partnership with Mr. Hill, bought a distillery.  In 1872 Mr. Stone 
purchased his partner's interest and conducted the business alone until 
1877.  In that year he sold out to Mattingly & Lancaster.  In 1873, 
while in the distilling business, he was elected Tobacco Inspector for 
the city of Louisville; continued in this office four years.  Then went 
out as a drummer for a Kentucky tobacco warehouse.  In 1879, in company 
with Mr. Clark, he built a warehouse.  In the spring of 1880 he was 
elected Warden of the State Penitentiary at Frankfort, and served two 
years and three months.  Sept. 1, 1882, he formed a partnership with Mr. 
Mattingly in the distilling business, which he now follows.  Mr. Stone 
was first married, Nov. 30, 1845, to Mary B. Wright, of Franklin County. 
Eight months after she died, and in 1848 he married Sue Murray, of 
Owensboro.  She died Oct. 19, 1879, leaving no children.  Mr. Stone 
married, June 1, 1882, Katie Crockett, of Franklin County.  Her 
great-grandfather represented Kentucky when it was a county and belonged 
to Virginia.  Mr. Stone's father was educated a lawyer, but did not 
follow the profession.  He was Minister to Spain under President 
Madison.  In the war of 1812 he went out of Fredericksburg as Captain 
and was subsequently appointed Quartermaster, serving in that capacity 
until the close of the war.

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