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Born 1826
From History of Green and Jersey counties, Illinois, together with sketches of the towns, villages and township, educational, civil, military, and political history; (1885), History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present (1879)
STONE JAMES, farmer and stock raiser,.Sec. 6, P.O, Carrollton. James Stone is a native of Greene County, where he was born in 1826; son of John and Anna Stone, who become cotemporary with the early settlers of Greene County, the date of their arrival being sometime between the years 1818 and 1820. Many of our readers will, no doubt, look for some notice of John Stone in these columns, and I will here append a short notice of him. He was born in North Carolina, it is supposed, and during the early settlement moved to Tennessee, and probably married there, although nothing definite can now be obtained; from Tennessee he eventually made his way to Greene County, Ill., at the date given above, where he had, so to speak, a hard row to hoe; but he subsequently became successful in life, and died in October, 1853, having acquired a comfortable competence; his wife survived him many years, and died in 1873; eleven children blessed this union, of whom James, the third, passed his early life upon the old farm homestead, and received a common school education; in 1858, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Allen, a daughter of William Allen, an early settler of Greene County; of this marriage seven children were born, of whom six are living: Viola, Luela,
Orville, Marietta, Ozias and Charles O. Mr. Stone is the owner of 173 acres of valuable land, and is a thorough-going, reliable farmer. Mrs. Stone died on the 6th of January, 1 878
As printed in History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present (1879). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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Samuel Martin and his wife, both natives of Kentucky, made a settlement immer the bluffs, in what is now Woodville township, in 1824 or 1825. From here,- after some years, they removed to Sec. 7, T. 9, R.12, where they both died. Isaac N. Martin, for many years a resident of the county, was a son.
As printed in History of Green and Jersey counties, Illinois, together with sketches of the towns, villages and township, educational, civil, military, and political history; (1885). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Isaac N. Martin (b. 1826) Samuel Martin (b. 1826) Samuel Thomas William Allen
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