Stones of Maryland
& Virgina & Kentucky & Tennessee
Notes by Neil Allen Bristow
These pages present an overview, a survey of four generations of the Stone family from Calvert County, Maryland. Except in a few cases, I have not attempted to write detailed histories of individuals or family groups lest the project get out of hand. However, I do have additional material on some lines which I have not included, and I would gladly share information with other researchers. Like all genealogies, this is a work in progress. There are holes to be filled, mistakes to be corrected, and stories to be told.
I have organized the material in geographical fashion:
- Origins: From the Patuxent to the Blue Ridge. John Stone and his wife Mary Marshall lived in Lyons Creek Hundred on the Patuxent River. His son Thomas moved a hundred miles west to Albemarle County, Virginia.
- In the next generation, several brothers and sisters crossed the mountains to the Bluegrass of Kentucky. Kinzea Stone was a leading figure in Bourbon County, and his grandson, another Kinzea, owned a Kentucky Derby winner.
- One brother went to Tennessee, settling on the Cumberland River not far upstream from Nashville. His children moved south and west.
- The unusual story of Edward Stone of Bourbon County, Kentucky, who was both a talented architect and a reviled slave trader.
I have posted a database of the Stones and their kin on WorldConnect.
Where they settled, moving west, 1700 to 1850
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Calvert County, Maryland Albemarle County, Virginia Bourbon County, Kentucky Boone County, Missouri Sumner County, Tennessee Fayette County, Tennessee Poinsett County, Arkansas |
The material presented here has been pulled together from many sources, film, print and electronic. Some early researchers and some modern pedigrees offer vital information from family members but provide little documentation. Where possible this data has been supplemented with census records and other documents. Postings on relevant lists and discussion groups, Rootsweb and Genforum in particular, also have proved useful in linking scattered clues into meaningful patterns.
Many researchers have worked to bring to light the history of the Stones. Margaret Louise Stone Irwin and Nellie Stone Bowling of the Memphis area provided much information on the Tennessee lines.1 Mrs Bowling's daughter Helen Bowling McKnight continues the work. Recently Darcey Slaughter, Barbara Byram Milman, and Mike Marshall have published many transcripts and abstracts of early documents on the Web.2 Although she is not specifically researching the Stone family, Virginia Easley DeMarce has done a wonderful job pulling together data on the early families of Boone County, 3 Other individuals have supplied information on particular families. My gratitude to them all.
1 See their articles in History of Fayette County, Tennessee (Memphis: Fayette County Genealogical Society, 1986), 209-211. Also extensive notes at the Tennessee Genealogical Society, Memphis.
2 See "Byram and Willis Family" on Rootsweb's WorldConnect. (Go to database "milman6325".).
3 See "Boone County Families" on Rootswb's WorldConnect. (Go to database "vedemarce".)
