Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, ed. 8-B,
Russell County

W.S. Stone, county clerk of Russell County, KY, was born in Wayne County,
KY, January 28, 1843, and is the oldest of four children born to N.B. and
Amanda (Owsley) Stone, viz: W.S., James B., John B. and George E.  N.B.
Stone, also a native of Wayne County, is a lawyer by profession, and
represented Russell and Casey Counties in the Legislature one term.  He is a
son of James Stone, who was born in Virginia, and was an early settler of
Wayne County, KY, of which county he was sheriff for a number of years.
Amanda (Owsley) Stone was born in Russell County, KY, and is a daughter of
Bryan Y. Owsley, a native of Lincoln County, who was a lawyer, and was
Congressman one term from what is now the Eight District; he was also
Register of Deeds at the Land Office, Frankfort, for a number of years.
W.S. Stone received a common-school education.  In the spring of 1801 he
enlisted in the Confederate army, Sixth Kentucky Cavalry, under command of
Gen. Morgan; he was taken prisoner at Buffington Island, Ohio, and carried
to Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., where he remained nineteen months, and was
then exchanged.  He surrendered April 9, 1865, and returned to Russell
County, KY, where he read law with J.E. Hays, and in 1867 he was admitted to
the bar.  He was elected county attorney, and held the office five years,
when he was elected county judge, which position he filled seven years, and
in August, 1887, was elected county clerk of Russell County.  December 31,
1868, he married Sophia M. Hays, of Jamestown, KY, a daughter of J.E. and
Mary A. (Coffey) Hays.  They have three children, Lula A., E.O. and J.H.
Judge Stone and wife are members of the Christian Church.  He is a Master
Mason and a Democrat.

Stone, Owsley, Morgan, Hays, Coffee
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VA, Lincoln, OH, Casey, Wayne, IL

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