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_James Stone ____________
| m 1812
_Lemuel Stone _______|
| (.... - 1880) m 1836|
| |_Polonia Greene _________
| m 1812
|
|--Ellen Stone
| (1837 - ....)
| _David Stanton West _____+
| | (.... - 1868) m 1812
|_Eliza West _________|
(1815 - 1855) m 1836|
|_Keziah Brumley Stanton _+
(.... - 1865) m 1812
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_Gorton Stone _______
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_Ervin W. Stone ______|
| (1845 - 1922) m 1870 |
| |_Marilla White ______
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|--Ernest Eldridge Stone
| (1874 - 1956)
| _Elias Lillibridge __+
| | (1820 - 1887)
|_Annette Lillibridge _|
(1849 - 1932) m 1870 |
|_Jane Anne Grimes ___
(1826 - 1898)
[3085] Worked in the timber business in Pennsylvania. He left there in
about 1906 and came south to Louisiana byboat. Worked his way
up to Duffee, Newton Co., MS and Meehan, Lauderdale Co., MS
where he met and married Minnie Lee Robinson. He owned
andoperated a small business near Duffee, Newton Co., MS for a
time making cross ties for the railroad that was being built
through the county. Later on, he managed some of the affairs of
a Mr. Craig who was in the timber business in the area of
Newton and Lauderdale Co., MS.
Ernest and Minnie never owned an automobile. On certain
occassions Ernest would drive the auto of Mr. Craig, his
employer in Meehan. Those around him knew him as a kind,
friendly and gentle man that loved children. He had a great
sense of humor and loved to tell stories.
He was a Methodist. No military service.
[3086] in a log cabin, Lillibridge Cree
[3090] coronary thrombosisWith contributing causes of arteriosclerosis
and diabetes.
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_Ervin W. Stone ______+
| (1845 - 1922) m 1870
_Ernest Eldridge Stone _|
| (1874 - 1956) m 1908 |
| |_Annette Lillibridge _+
| (1849 - 1932) m 1870
|
|--Ervin Estell Stone
| (1914 - 1987)
| _James Robinson ______
| |
|_Minnie Lee Robinson ___|
(1891 - 1954) m 1908 |
|_Elizabeth McCraw ____
[3121] He did several things for a living during his life, among them
were, operating the Lamar Hotel service station. The Lamar
Hotel was Meridian's finest hotel at the time. He worked there
until he was drafted and left in January of 1942 fort he
service. He drove a truck for Acme Building Supply, delivering
building materials in Mississippi and Alabama. He had to quit
the trucking because of health reasons. After that he went to
work for Mid State Paving for a while. He worked for a local
Meridian loan company called Abbott Loan. While there he met
Mack Currie and they started their own loan company called
Atlas Loan. They gradually changed from just loans to pawn and
changed the name to Maxie's Pawn Shop.
Maxies was the first pawn shop in Meridian and business did
quite well. Stoney managed the shop due to the fact that Mack
was a heavy drinker and had little sense. Stoney became a
self-taught gunsmith, he got pretty good at it after a while.
Working at Maxie's was his last job. He had planned to do gun
work, saw filing and reloading ammo part time after retiring,
but his arthritis got too bad for him to go through with his
plans.
[3125] arthritis; Developed severe arthritis.
[11641] They married on the same day that Levee's divorce from Edwin
Schunke was final. She had been separated from Ed Schunke for
several years before she and Stoney married. Levee had not
filed for divorce until she made the decision to marry Stoney.
The day she got the final papers, she went to Stoney's service
station in Meridian, then they went and bought a marriage
license and married that same night.
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_Gorton Stone _______|
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|--Ervin W. Stone
| (1845 - 1922)
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|_Marilla White ______|
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[3079] He had a twin brother Erwin. Ervin was a farmer.
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_Ervin W. Stone ______+
| (1845 - 1922) m 1870
_Ernest Eldridge Stone _|
| (1874 - 1956) m 1908 |
| |_Annette Lillibridge _+
| (1849 - 1932) m 1870
|
|--Ethel Mae Stone
|
| _James Robinson ______
| |
|_Minnie Lee Robinson ___|
(1891 - 1954) m 1908 |
|_Elizabeth McCraw ____
[3117] She used to ride a wagon to school neer Meehan Junction where
they lived in her childhood years, until she married in 1929.
She was also an active member of the United Methodist Women for
60 years. She joined in 1929, the organization was originally
called the Ladies Aid.
[3118] She was born in a lumber camp located somewhere between Duffee,
MS and Meehan, even though the official record shows her place
of birth as Meehan. (according to Ethel Cooper, 1998).
[3120] diabetes; Diagnosed approximately at the age of 75.
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_Miles Stone ________|
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| |_____________________
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|
|--Generva Stone
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| _James B. Stanton ___+
| |
|_Bessie Stanton _____|
|
|_Jane Tate __________
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_Ervin W. Stone ______+
| (1845 - 1922) m 1870
_Edwin Ruthvin Stone _|
| (1876 - 1960) m 1896 |
| |_Annette Lillibridge _+
| (1849 - 1932) m 1870
|
|--Geneva Annette Stone
| (1904 - 1998)
| ______________________
| |
|_Lydia Ann Rice ______|
m 1896 |
|______________________
[3129] This was published in the Report-Argus, Port Allegany, McKean
Co., PA July 15, 1986 under the headline of "Geneva McCloskey
Beginning Again" and the byline of by Margo Perotti.
When she turned 82, Geneva McCloskey decided that her
retirement from her hobby of painting had been premature. As
she was still very much alive, in reasonably good health and
could still see, she bought a new supply of watercolors,
pastels, pencils and other paraphernalia.
Geneva Stone graduated from Port Allegany High School in 1921
and then from Mansfield Teacher's College in 1925. Trainted to
be a teacher, she did teach, but later.
Her first career was that of a colorist for J. Horace
McFarland's Mt. Pleasant Press. McFarland, famous for "The Rose
in America," would take a picture of a town and tell its
citizens what could be done to beautify it. Naturally, his
plans included many roses.
McFarland discovered Geneva in Eagles Mere, PA., where she was
waiting tables at a hotel during the summer season. Wanting
extra money for some interesting blouses she had spotted, she
took pieces of birch bark and painted Indians and flowers on
them.
McFarland saw her enterprising venture and sent his chauffeur
to ask her for an interview. Geneva appeared at the interview
wearing a read dress to match her hair, and Indian beads. She
got the job "anyway" (her words). The publisher normally would
not hire college-trained artists because they had to unlearn
too much before they could do the job as he wanted it done.
In the summer, two persons would go out to the research
gardens and make eight to 16 pictures of the plants at
different stages of growth. In the winter, the artists colored
the black and white pictures for the catalogs that would come
out in the spring.
Art in some form was always a part of Geneva's life. Herm
other could draw people as well as inanimate objects. Mrs.
Stone even took lessons once for one dollar a lesson. Geneva's
grandmother could also draw well. Only during her freshman
year, did Geneva receive any art instruction as a girl. The art
teacher was Genevieve Cray, and she gave her students thorough
training in perspective.
Later in life, Geneva took a pencil course and one in
watercolors under the Pratt School in the Booth Bay Harbor
Studios in Maine. The instructor of that course was Frank
Allen. He gave the class an assignment to draw a house in three
positions, above, on, and below the line of perspetive, using
only pencil and paper. At that point, Geneva fully appreciated
Genevieve's lessons.
Before the depression caught up with the publishing house,
Geneva made a salary of $26 per week in the art department.
Then in 1932, wages were cut by 40% and she came home. At first
she free-lanced as a colorist and was soon hired on staff at
the Buffalo Museum of Science, coloring plates and slides for
exhibition and for lecture series.
In 1934, the teacher at Brooklynside school got married and
Geneva was asked to substitute. She was qualified and taught
for 11 years in Liberty Township schools, still doing some
free-lance work for the museum.
George McClosky and Geneva Stone were married in 1939. This
marriage gave Geneva years of happy companionship and travel.
George went into the service in 1942 and deiced to make a
career of the Army after the war. Geneva joined him in 1946,
living in Germany for some years and several places in the
United States, before his retirement and their return to their
Skinner Creek home.
Geneva always said that she painted for he own amusement.
Husband George said that "she painted for her own amzement --
she was amazed that they turned out!"
At one point Geneva was coloring glass transparencies for the
museum display cases, a man from the State Institute for the
Study of Malignant Diseases admired her work. He wanted her to
color slides for lectures on before and after cures for
malignancies. Geneva did some work for the institute which
later became Roswell Park Memorial Institute. The signs she
studied and learned to color wer no help to her when in 1978 a
mole on her left arm became malignant. The mole remained brown
instead of turning colors.
Geneva herself became a patient at Roswell. Some good friends
gave her a diary-type book which she filled with notes,
sketches, comments and signatures of hospital personnel and
fellow patients. The book is titled "The Nothing Album --
Wanna' Make Something Of It." She did.
It was this experience following just a few years after the
death of her husband, coupled with health problems that
influenced Geneva's decision to stop painting.
Now, she paints again, watercolors, pastels and pencil
sketches mostly, as she had an allergic reaction to the new
oils she tried. Flowers are her favorite subjects, exquisite
studies of a single flower, or a vase full of blooms. For many
years, Geneva drew pencil sketches of barns, barns, and more
barns. Then landscapes in oil done at their campsite or by the
stream being fished by George, were the predominant theme.
Geneva is not an artistic recluse. She is an active member and
secretary of the Town and Country Club, taking her turn to host
it at her house. The Shakespeare Club is another organization
in which she is active.
Gardening has become difficult for her, but Geneva still
enjoys the flower beds by her home. She tracked down the
variety of mertensia in her and others gardens in this area. It
is the German variety, probably brought to this area by a
descendant of some German immigrant. It has spooted leaves and
a shorter bell on the flower than the mertensia veginica.
Mertensia is also known as a cowslip.
Geneva is now busy looking for the name of another perennial
newcomes to her garden, when she is not painting delicate
flowers for her homemade greeting cards, or brewing a pot of
tea for someone who has stopped for a visit.
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_James Stone ____________
| m 1812
_Lemuel Stone _______|
| (.... - 1880) m 1836|
| |_Polonia Greene _________
| m 1812
|
|--George West Stone
| (1855 - ....)
| _David Stanton West _____+
| | (.... - 1868) m 1812
|_Eliza West _________|
(1815 - 1855) m 1836|
|_Keziah Brumley Stanton _+
(.... - 1865) m 1812
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_Edwin Ruthvin Stone _+
| (1876 - 1960) m 1896
_Paul Rice Stone ____|
| (1908 - 1993) |
| |_Lydia Ann Rice ______
| m 1896
|
|--Gordon E. Stone
| (1940 - ....)
| ______________________
| |
|_Mary C. Rice _______|
(1912 - 1977) |
|______________________
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[3083] Of southern Pennsylvania.
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