William Adkerson Stone (1850 - 1905)

Born 22 Feb 1850 in Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Susan Catherine (Regan) Crow — married 21 Dec 1899 in Union Parish, Louisiana

Descendants

Died 27 Jul 1905 at age 55 in Spearsville, Union County, Louisiana, United States

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Biography

William Adkerson Stone was born 22 January, 1850, in Edgefield County, South Carolina. William is the son of Thomas Stone, and Martha Johnson. William was called "Bill" by his parents, brothers and sister.

William appears in the 1850 Federal census in Edgefield County, South Carolina in the household of his father, Thomas Stone. William's age is given in the 1850 census as 8 months old, the enumeration date for William's family in the census was October, 1850.^[1]

William's mother Martha died in Edgefield County, South Carolina before 1858, and William's father, Thomas Stone moved his family to Shelby County, Alabama in 1859.

William, age 20, appears in the 1870 Federal census in the household of his father Thomas Stone in Shelby county, Alabama.^[2]

William met Louisa Narcisia Abbett, daughter of the Rev. Littleton Berry Abbett and Sarah Elizabeth Caroline Land, when he was working in Tallapoosa County, Alabama. The Abbett family subsequently moved to Louisiana, and when William returned home to the Four Mile Community in Shelby County, Alabama, he told his family about Louisa and that he wanted to marry her. William packed his belongings and left home for Louisiana.^[3] William and Louisa Narcisia Abbett were married on the 16th of December, 1874.

William appears in the 1880 Federal census as head of household in Union Parish, Louisiana. William's household appears as follows: William age 30; Loueza age 25; Thomas L. age 3; and William P. age 5 months - birth month given as December. William's household was enumerated in June 1880, this would mean William P. was born in December 1879.^[4]

William is in the 1900 Federal Census in Union Parish Louisiana and is listed as married but he is actually a widower, as Louisa had died in 1896.^[5]

William Adkerson Stone died on the 27th of July, 1905, in Union Parish Louisiana, and is buried in the Camp Creek Cemetery, in Spearville, Union Parish, Louisiana.^[6]

William and Louisa are the parents of: Thomas Littleton Stone; William Pleasant Stone; Jessie Stone; Berson Monroe Stone; Sarah Stone Senn; and Berry Abbett Stone.

Sources

1. ↑ William Adkerson Stone appears in the 1850 Federal Census of his father Thomas Stone in Edgefield County, South Carolina. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432, Roll 852, Page 74B.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHK1-LKN : 12 April 2016), Thomas Stone, Alabama, United States; citing p. 7, family 46, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 545,538.
3. ↑ Family story of William's family name of "Bill", and romance with Louisa N. Abbett from personal knowledge of William's neice, Ellie Stone Wilder, and told to Carolyn Wilder.
4. ↑ 1880 Federal census Union Parish Louisiana, household of William Stone. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9 Roll 473 page 469, Enumeration District 087. [Note: if accessing census via Ancestry their extracted data spells William's surname as Storie instead of Stone which is plainly written on the original census record]
5. ↑ 1900 Federal Census Union Parish, Louisiana. National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, Roll 585, page 2B.
6. ↑ Find A Grave, Memorial #43038337; with photo of tombstone; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43048337/sto

See Also

• The Abbett Family Report of 21 January, 1992 Title: Peggy (Manning) Rockett - Spearsville, Union, LA, The Abbett Family Report of 21 January, 1992.

Acknowledgements

• Original research by Carolyn Wilder based on documents found in her research of her Stone family in the records of various states and counties across the Southeastern United States.

• WikiTree profile Stone-2664 created through the import of Land.ged on May 29, 2012 by Joe Willis Jones.