Samuel D. STONER

Montgomery County, Indiana

History of Montgomery County, Indiana (Indianapolis: AW Bowen, 1913) p 1223

The name of Samuel D. STONER needs no formal introduction to the people
of Montgomery County, for here he has spent his life, engaged in the
ministry of the German Baptist Church and in general agricultural
pursuits. Samuel D. Stoner was born on a farm where he now resides, in
Sec 21, Clark Twp, this County on July 24, 1856 and is a son of David
Stoner who was b. May 25, 1806 in Va and was a son of Jacob Stoner, a
native of Maryland and he in turn was a son of Jacob Stoner who went
from Pennsylvania to Maryland. Jacob Stoner was reared in his native
state and there married Catherine ALBAUGH who was a native of Va. Jacob
Stoner established his permanent home in Botetourt Co, Va and there
passed the remainder of his life. He was twice married his first wife
dying in early life and on Nov 2, 1820 he married Barbara GARST. To the
first union 8 children were born and 9 to the second, making thus a
large family of 17 children. David Stoner grew to manhood in Botetourt
Co Va and there received his education. It was in 1831 that he emigrated
to Montgomery CO In and entered 80 acre sin Sec 12 and 13, and in 1837
he settled here permanently. Samuel D. Stoner was reared on the old
homestead, and received his education in the public schools, later
entering Ashland College in Ohio, and finished at Ladoga, Indiana. Mr.
S. was marr. on Sept 30, 1884, to Lina NORRIS, a daughter of Edward O.
Norris, b. in Hartford Co, Md, in 1813, there spent his life and died in
1872. Mrs. Stoner was also a native of that state, the date of her birth
being Dec 15, 1860; there she grew to womanhood, received her education
and was married, but soon thereafter she and Mr. Stoner took up their
abode in the old home here, there they have since resided. To this union
8 children have been born: Mary Christina; David L; Emma Rowena; Edward
Norris; Paul Deardorff; John Edgar; Benjamin Oliver and Joseph Warren.
Mr. Stoner is a minister in the German Baptist Brethren Church, holding
membership with  he Raccoon Creek congregation of which he was elected
minister Oct 2, 1890. Mrs. Stoner is also a member of the above named
Church. Politically, Mr. S. is a Prohibitionist.

Portrait & Biographical Record of Montgomery, Parke & Fountain counties,
Indiana.
Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1893, pp441-442

SAMUEL D. STONER is one of the lights of the pulpit of the German
Baptist Brethren Church in Montgomery County and he is also one of its
prosperous farmers, his farm and residence being situated on Section 21,
Clark Township. He was born at the place where he now lives July 24,
1856, and is a son of the well-known David Stoner, who settled here in
pioneer times and became one of the wealthiest farmers in this vicinity.
David Stoner was born May 25, 1806, in Maryland, and was a son of Jacob
Stoner, who was also a native of that state, and he in turn was a son of
David Stoner, who went from Pennsylvania to Maryland. The Stoners were
of German origin. Jacob Stoner was reared in the state of his nativity,
and there married Catherine Albaugh, who was likewise born in Maryland.
Jacob Stoner settled in Botetourt County, Va., and passed the remainder
of his life there, dying in February, 1834. His first wife died and he
was a second time married November 2, 1820, Barbara Garst becoming his
wife. Mr. Stoner was the father of seventeen children (eight by his
first marriage), namely: David; Susanna, born March 21, 1808; Abraham,
December 31, 1810; Jacob, October 23, 1812; William, September 28, 1814;
John, October 29, 1816; Catherine, December 13, 1818; Daniel, October
18, 1820; Elizabeth, who was born December 19, 1821, and died October 9,
1843; Joel, born May 26, 1823; Barbara, October 7, 1824; Magdaline,
February 26, 1826; Sarah, December 18, 1827; Hannah, December 3, 1829;
Rebecca, October 28, 1831; Lydia, born December 26,1833, and Samuel,
September 1, 1834.
David Stoner's boyhood was passed in Botetourt County, Va., where he had
the educational advantages afforded by an English school. In 1831 he
came to this county and entered land on Sections 12 and 13, eighty acres
on each section, and in 1837 he settled here permanently, locating on
the Ruth place south of Ladoga, where he superintended the farm for his
stepmother, living there until his marriage in 1841 to Ann, daughter of
Jacob Deardorff. He then removed to his present place of residence,
which he bought of Jesse Bath. The land had already been cleared, and by
years of unremitting industry he has brought it into a fine condition
and has it amply provided with buildings, including a large brick house
in which he has a home replete with comfort. At one time he owned eleven
hundred and forty acres of land, but he has divided the greater part of
it among his children.
Mrs. Stoner, who so faithfully shared with him the toils incidental to
pioneer life and was of so much help to him in the upbuilding of their
home, died October 14, 1878, and her mortal remains were placed in the
Stoner Cemetery. They had six children, five of whom are living:
Catherine, who was born February 23, 1852, and married W. H. Higgins;
Caroline and Benjamin, who were born April 22, 1854, the former marrying
R. B. Zimmerman and dying July 8, 1890, and the latter a resident of
Boone; Christiana, who was born February 2, 1859, and married William
Hicks, of Boone County; Solome who was born November 8, 1863, and is now
a student at Mt. Morris College; and our subject.
Samuel D. Stoner was reared on the old homestead, where he still lives,
and was given excellent advantages, pursuing a course of study in the
Normal at Ladoga, and afterward attending Ashland College in Ohio. After
leaving college he was married September 30, 1884, to Miss Lina Norris,
a daughter of Edward O. Norris. Her father was born in Harford County,
Md.
, in 1813, and died in his native state in 1872. Mrs. Stoner was born
in that state December 15, 1860, and her marriage was celebrated there.
After the wedding Mr. Stoner brought his bride to the old homestead,
where they have ever since lived. They are blessed with four children,
namely: Mary Christina, who was born August 11, 1885; David L., November
30, 1886; Emma Rowena, June 27, 1889, and Edward Norris, December 1, 1891.
Mr. Stoner has a farm of two hundred and twenty-seven acres of finely
improved land, with a neat set of buildings and everything necessary to
carry on agriculture. He is a stock farmer, and raises a good many sheep
of the famous Southdown and Shropshire breeds.
Mr. Stoner is one of the foremost members of' the German Baptist Church,
belonging to the Raccoon Creek Congregation, of which he was elected
minister October 2, 1890. He is gifted as a preacher and devotes himself
heart and soul to the work, for which he seems so well fitted, of
promulgating the doctrines of his beloved church. He is deeply
interested in the Sunday-school and is Superintendent of the Mt.
Pleasant
Sunday-school. His wife also belongs to the same church and is
an active worker in the ranks of the most zealous Christians within the
fold. Politically, Mr. Stoner is a Prohibitionist and a strong advocate
of temperance.

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Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG