Homer Bishop Stone 1808-1896

STONE, LINDSLEY, LINSLEY, EASTMAN

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Date: 6/2/2012 at 12:45:00

Old Settlers Gone.
Near the death of the old year and the birth of the new there passed away a couple of old residents of Des Moines and
pioneers of Iowa—Homer Bishop Stone and his wife Lucy. Both were natives of Litchfield, Conn., of English ancestrv extending back to the Hartford and New Haven colonies. Mr. Stone was born May 22nd, 1808, and Mrs. Stone, whose maiden name was Lucy Lindsley, August 28, 1807. They married March 2nd, 1828 and in 1833 moved to western New York, which was then to New England "the far west." They soon after moved to Coldwater, Mich., then a new and wild country, and thence moved to eastern Indiana. In 1844 they made their last western migration and settled near Oskaloosa, Iowa.

Mr. Stone moved to Des Moines in 1866, purchased a home and grounds on the east side near the capitol, where the venerable pair have lived to see this spot which in the first settlement of the country was known as Fort Des Moines at the "Raccoon Forks" grow into a city, a railroad center and a metropolis of business, wealth and culture. After a brief period of decline succeeding an
apopletic attack "Grandma" Stone passed away the day before Christmas. Grandpa Stone, whose life had become so interwoven with that of the faithful and devoted wife who had been his almost daily companion for nearly three score years and ten, that he could scarcely bear to have her out of his sight, pined away in his loneliness and the feebleness of age until without sickness or pain his last breath was out as in a gentle slumber on Monday the 6th inst., at the residence of their only daughter, Mrs. James W. Eastman, with whom the old couple had been living for a few years past. They had lived to have nearly a dozen great grandchildren, and their children and grandchildren scattered over the farther and newer great West.

The Iowa State Register, Des Moines, IA
Friday, Jan. 17, 1896