David Stoner

Montgomery County, Indiana

Beckwith, H. W. History of Montgomery County, Indiana
Chicago: HH Hill, 1881, p 460

David STONER, farmer, Ladoga, this highly esteemed and generous hearted
citizen was born in Botetourt Co, Va, May 25, 1806. His early years were
spent in farming and attending the old hilly country of his native state
the district school. In 1831 he came to IN and entered land in Clark
Twp. In 1851 he was marr. to Miss Ann DEARDORFF, a native of Preble Co,
Ohio and and became the father of six children: Catharine, wife of
William HIGGINS ; Benjamin, Caroline, Samuel, Christena, wife of William
HICKS ; Saloma A. Mr. S's life is an example worthy of the following of
many young men of our County: beginning life a poor boy, but full of
energy and a stirring will, he constantly rose in the estimation of
friends and in the accumulation of this world's goods. It was an
invariable practice of his in his younger days to make one shoe every
evening after his day's work was done. Thus his start in life was among
hardships and industry, the fruit of which is 1,000 acres of fine
farming land in this and in Boone Co. Mr. Stoner traces his ancestors
ont he paternal side to the English, and those on the maternal side to
the Germans. in 1837 he came with his stepmother to this township from
Va, and has since remained a leading citizen. In an early day he erected
a sawmill, which did good service in furnishing building materials to
the pioneers. Oct. 14, 1878, Mrs. S. died with a cancer. As honest labor
(in the slave state of Va) was considered dishonorable for a white man,
Mr. S. sought a home in a free state early in life.

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Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG