Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th 
ed.,1887, Spencer Co.

THE STONE FAMILY.  Thomas Stone was born in Spencer County, 
August 13, 1806, and died September 10, 1873.  He was through life 
a merchant trader and farmer, and amassed a handsome fortune, 
owning about 800 acres of land, servants and money.  He was a 
gentleman in the truest sense, public spirited, honorable, generous 
and courteous.  He was one of the nine children of William Stone 
and Rebecca Erskine, who immigrated from Loudoun County, Va., to 
Nelson County, Ky., the latter part of 1700.  The Stones came from 
England the latter part of 1600, settling in northern Virginia and 
southern Maryland.  They were noted for strong practical sense,  
energy,  pride of character, and love of justice.  They espoused the 
cause of the colonies, one of them, Thomas Stone, being one of the 
signers of the Declaration of Independence.  They were 
Episcopalians in religion.  The Erskines were also from England, and 
settled first in Maryland.  They were people of wealth, and were 
devout Catholics.  Thomas Stone, the subject of our sketch, married, 
February 25, 1835, Sallie A. May, who was born in Spencer County, 
Ky., November 28, 1814.  Her father, Humphrey May, was born
in 1782 in Pittsylvania County, Va., and was of Welsh extraction.  He 
came to Kentucky at the age of seven years, and was the fourth of 
eleven children born to Gabriel and Susanna (Stokes) May.  
Sylvanus Stokes and Sallie Allen (a sister to Col. Ethan Allen, the 
hero of Ticonderoga) were the parents of Susanna Stokes May.  She 
and her husband and seven children came to Kentucky in 1788.  
They were Episcopalians.  The Mays were people of fine sense, 
sobriety and great amiability of temper.  Humphrey May's wives were 
Elizabeth and Margaret Connelly, the daughters of John Connelly
and Frances Brent, who immigrated from Fluvana [sic] County, Va., to 
Nelson County, Ky., in 1805.  The Connellys were of Irish extraction, 
and were people of great wit and humor, and fine literary tastes.  The 
mother of John Connelly was a Miss Edwards.  John Connelly's son, 
Dr. Henry Connelly, was twice governor of New Mexico.  Besides the 
above mentioned John Connelly had six other children, all of high 
respectability.  The Brents were a fine old Scotch family, much given 
to high living and sporting. Thomas and Sallie (May) Stone had eight 
children:  William H., a farmer and trader, who married Maggie Green, 
of Spencer County; Mary (deceased); Eli D. (deceased); Sallie E., 
who married Searles Mars Lewis, of Broomfield [sic], a skillful 
physician, and who served with distinction as a regimental surgeon in 
the Confederate Army; Annie R., who married her cousin, Davis 
Stone, a large farmer in Nelson County; Martha E., who married 
Rowland Cox, a fine civil engineeer and a farmer from Daviess
County; James B., a farmer and trader in Spencer County, and 
Thomas, a practitioner and professor in a medical college in New 
York City.
 
Stone Erskine May Stokes Allen Connelly Brent Edwards Green 
Lewis Cox
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Loudoun-VA Nelson England MD Pitsylvania-VA Wales Fluvanna-VA 
Ireland NM NY Daviess

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