Clarecy Elizabeth (Armstrong) Stone (1853 - 1930)

Born 26 Jan 1853 in Shelby County, Alabama, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Jesse Stone — married 22 Dec 1866 in Shelby County, Alabama, United States

Descendants

Died 28 Dec 1930 at age 77 in Shelby County, Alabama, United States

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Biography

Clarecy Elizabeth Armstrong was born on January 26, 1858, in Shelby County, Alabama. Clarecy is the daughter of William Armstrong and Louisa Seale.

Clarecy married at age 13, Jessie Stone on the 22nd of December, 1866, in Shelby County, Alabama.

Clarecy appears in the 1870 Federal Census in Shelby County, Alabama, in the household of her husband Jesse Stone.

Clarecy appears in the 1880 Federal Census in Shelby County, Alabama, in the household of her husband Jesse Stone.

Clarecy appears in the 1900 Federal Census in Shelby County, Alabama, in the household of her husband Jesse Stone. In the 1900 census Clarecy is listed as being the mother of 14 children with 9 children living. Only the names of 10 children are known.

Clarecy and Jesse were the parents of ten (10) children who survived beyond infancy: William Stone; James Henry Stone; Martha Stone Spearman; James Stone; Riley Stone; Mary Stone; Lenora Stone; Alma Stone Stamps; Bertha Stone; and Pickens Stone.

Clarecy appears in the 1910 Federal Census in Grayson County, Texas, in the household of her husband Jesse Stone.

Clarecy appears in the 1920 Federal Census in Grayson County, Texas, in the household of her husband Jesse Stone.

Clarecy's husband, Jesse Stone, died on the 20th of January, 1923, in Sherman, Grayson County, Texas. James Henry Stone, and Eliza H. Stone, Clarecy's son and sister, drove from Shelby County, Alabama to Sherman, Texas after Jesse Stone's death. Clarecy returned with her son and sister to Shelby County, Alabama to live with her son, James Henry Stone.

Clarecy appears in the 1930 Federal Census in Shelby County, Alabama, in the household of her son, James Henry Stone, living near Harpersville, Alabama.

Clarecy passed away on December 28, 1930, near Harpersville, in Shelby County, Alabama, at the home of her son James Henry Stone.

Clarecy is buried at the Fourmile Baptist Church Cemetery, Shelby County, Alabama.

Sources

• Clarecy E. Armstrong's date of birth from family records of her father W.W. Armstrong, and from her tombstone at Fourmile Baptist Church Cemetery, Shelby County, Alabama.

• Marriage recorded in Shelby County, Alabama, Marriage Book 1860-1869, page 150. Original located at Shelby County Archives and Historical Society, Columbiana, Shelby County, Alabama.

• 1870 Federal Census Shelby County, Alabama. National Archives and Records Administration, microfilm M593, Roll 39, page 507B.

• 1880 Federal Census Shelby County, Alabama. National Archives and Records Administration, microfilm T9, Roll 31, page 278D.

• 1900 Federal Census Shelby County, Alabama. National Archives and Records Administration, microfilm T623, Roll 39, page 13A.

• 1910 Federal Census Grayson County, Texas. National Archives and Records Administration, microfilm T624, Roll 1556, page 8B.

• 1920 Federal Census Grayson County, Texas. National Archives and Records Administration, microfilm T625, Roll 1808, page 1A.

• 1930 Federal Census Shelby County, Alabama. National Archives and Records Administration, microfilm T626, Roll 48, page 18B.

• Information on Clarecy's return to Shelby County, Alabama from Texas following Jesse Stone's death is from Clarecy's niece, Ellie Stone Wilder (daughter of Eliza H. Stone) and told to Carolyn Wilder.

• Find A Grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Stone&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=3&GScnty=84&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=124360344&df=all&

• Photo of Clarecy E. Armstrong Stone was taken about 1929/1930. The original photo is in possession of, and was added by Carolyn Wilder.