Stone, Rufus 1831-1881 & Almira Porter

STONE, PORTER, COOLEY, JOHNSTON

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg (email)
Date: 4/24/2020 at 10:07:06

From the Hawarden Centennial book 1887-1987 One Hundred Years ‘On the Right Track’ page 810
Stone Family – Rufus Stone 1831-1881 and wife Almira Porter
From an account by their son, David O. “Brick” Stone
Note: The submitter of this Bio has inserted obituaries and death articles where deemed appropriate into the script account by David O. Stone.

Colonel Rufus Stone and his wife Almira Porter Stone and their two minor sons left their native Ohio by covered wagon in 1866, and, in 1868, became sone of the first tow families to become permanent settlers of Calliope. There were three other families living in all of Sioux Co. at the time Colonel Rufus Stone came to Calliope. Col. Rufus Stone was born in Blepre, Ohio, Nov 2, 1831, was a lawyer in his native town and held the rank of colonel in the Ohio Militia during the Civil War.

From old newspapers (Sheldon Mail) and court calendars in my possession, I have determined that Rufus Stone also practiced law in Sioux and O’Brien counties during the 1870’s. During the early days (1868 through) 1872 at least), Rufus Stone held offices of Buncombe Twp. Clerk, Sioux County Recorder, Sioux County Treasurer, and perhaps several other offices (probably all at the same time!) while Calliope was the county seat. In 1880 he purchased the Sioux co. Independent and became its publisher. Unfortunately, he lived only four months following the purchase, being one of Calliope’s two casualties of the smallpox epidemic in Jan, 1881.

(Inserted by submitter: There were no papers of the Hawarden Independent for Jan 1881 through 1882 that were put on line.
In the ‘DeVolksvriend’ of Jan 13, 1881 an Orange City Dutch Newspaper found a brief note referencing Rufus Stone suffering from the small pox. .
In the ‘De Volksvriend’ of Thursday Feb 22, 1881, in Dutch, Thursday word was received that Rufus Stone who was ill with smallpox had died. Saturday was the funeral.
In the ‘Sioux County Herald’ of Thursday Feb 24, 1881 the following article –
THE DEATH OF RUFUS STONE The sad news reached Orange City last week that Rufus Stone, one of the oldest settlers in Sioux county, died on Feb 18th of small pox, at his old home in Calliope. We are unable to give any details in the case, owing to the fact that it is impossible to get to Calliope by team, and because there is no operator at Calliope. Some action was taken by some of our citizens asking Hon. Geo. D. Perkins, of Sioux City to inquire or ascertain what should be done to relieve the wants of the afflicted at Calliope, if anything could be done for them, or if suffering from want, but up to the present writing no word has been received. The sad news was also received that Mr. Stone’s body had not been buried up to last Thursday. .. LATER- The report in regard to the allowing of Mr. Stone’s body to remain unburied for so long is not true. It was given a respectable burial the day following his decease. It was through partial carelessness that his death was brought on, he having stood the attack of the disease through it’s worst phases, but exposed himself before he had fully recovered, which brought on a relapse, the cause of his death. Advices have also been received that the citizens and sufferers have had an abundant supply of provisions up to the present writing, but there is no knowing how long such supply can be obtained, as the citizens of Le Mars, from which place the provisions and fuel have been obtained by means of teams making trip twice a week, held a meeting last week and quarantined against the citizens of Calliope and vicinity. )

Continuing on with the script from the Hawarden Centennial book..

Referring to the third paragraph of William E. West’s account of “Buncombe Twp. and Hawarden.” I am not sure of the person to whom the reference “Mrs. M. A. Stone” applies. I must assume that it refers to Col Rufus Stone’s wife, Almira R. Porter Stone, since my records show that Almira Stone dies in Calliope Jan. 23, 1883. (Possibly she was known as Amy, from whence Mr. West’s use of M. A. )

F. P. Stone is Fred Porter Stone, the son of Colonel Rufus Stone, and he was born in Little Hocking Ohio Dec 31 , 1857 and died in Sioux Falls, SD., in the early 1930’s. Fred Stone was 10 years old when he arrived in Calliope and or Hawarden until 1868. He resided in Calliope until 1890, and held the office of Sioux County Recorder from 1885 to 1889, he moved to Sioux Falls, where he was employed in the post office for many years until his retirement. He was a lifelong Democrat active in South Dakota politics.

( Inserted by the submitter - Obituary of Fred P. Stone 1857-1937. )
Source: Source: Hawarden Independent August 5 1937
Fred P. Stone, one of Sioux County's earliest residents, passed away in the Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls Wednesday evening after an illness of about 10 days from pneumonia. He visited in Hawarden on July 22nd and two or three days later was taken ill and immediately removed to the hospital there. His condition was regarded as critical from the first due to his advanced years. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed.
Fred Porter Stone, eldest son of Rufus and Almira Porter Stone, was born at Little Hocking, Ohio, December 31 1857, so had he lived until the last day of this year would have been 80 years of age. His early boyhood was spent in Ohio but in 1867, with his parents and younger brother, he came to Cherokee county, Iowa. They took the railroad as far as Denison and then drove overland to Cherokee where they lived until the following year on a place close to the present city of Cherokee. In August, 1868, the family moved to Calliope. There were but two other families and half a dozen single men in all of Sioux County at that time although there were a number of settlers across the river in Dakota. They occupied for a time the log house in Calliope which had been previously erected for a court house by the men who had organized the county and then left. The following year numerous settlers began to come into the county. The father, Rufus Stone, filled some of the county offices for a few years and was serving as county treasurer at the time of the so-called Holland raid when the county records were forcibly seized and moved to Orange City, in the winter of 1871.
Fred Stone grew to young manhood in Calliope and did considerable surveying work in Sioux County as a young man. He also held grading contracts when both the Milwaukee and North Western lines were built through here. After the death of his father during the smallpox epidemic, he and his brother, D.O. Stone, found themselves in possession of the Calliope Independent, but Fred never became active in the newspaper work and soon relinquished his interest in the paper to his brother. In 1884 he was elected recorder of Sioux County and served two terms. Near the close of his second term as recorder he was united in marriage with Mrs. Alta Dorsey, who had a small son and daughter. One daughter, Mrs. Edna Hare, was born to them, but she died during the influenza epidemic in 1918. Mrs. Stone passed away about 1906 and a few years later he married Mrs. Isabel Spencer, who survives him.
Continuing with the script from the Hawarden Centennial book….

D. O. Stone is Colonel Rufus Stone’s younger son, best known as Brick Stone. Brick Stone was born in Belpre, Ohio, Feb 25, 1864, and was seventeen years old at the time of his father’s death. At. the age of 14, Brick Stone had started to learn the printer’s trade, and in 1881, at the age of 17, he became editor and publisher of the Independent, published in Calliope from 1881 until 1887, when it was moved to its location in Hawarden next to what until recently was Booth Drug Store (1967). Brick Stone was postmaster of Hawarden during the Democratic administration of Grover Cleveland, probably 1895-1899. I have a copy of a letter addressed to the honorable Wilson S. Bissell, Postmaster General, Washington, D. C., wherein almost all of the prominent Democratic politicians and office holders in the State of Iowa appear to have endorsed his candidacy for appointment as postmaster. Brick Stone was elected the 24th District’s representative to the Sowa State Legislature in 1914, in which capacity he served until his death in 1921. He had taken his son, Merle, into partnership with him in the newspaper business just a month before he died.

( Inserted by the submitter - Several Obituaries of D. O. Stone from various newspapers below:)

David O. Stone, editor of the Hawarden Independent, died on February 18, 1921. His death was reported in most, if not all, of the Sioux County newspapers. The obituary in the Hawarden Independent was by far the most extensive, although it is long on flowery commentary. However, it is compromised by blurring and black-outs at the bottoms of all three columns of the obit--in the digitized version, probably also on the microfilm that was the source of the digitized version, and perhaps in the original newspaper. The obit below captures as much as possible of the Hawarden Independent obit, supplemented or confirmed by additional information found in other newspapers. The Hawarden Independent obit also includes a photograph, but it is totally blacked out in the digitized version.
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From the Hawarden Independent, February 24, 1921:
DEATH OF D. O. STONE
Passed Away in Des Moines Last Friday After Brief Illness
D. O. Stone, for more than forty years publisher of this newspaper, passed away in his room in the Savery Hotel in Des Moines at 4:30 o'clock last Friday afternoon following an illness of only eight days duration from erysipelas. His son and daughter were at his bedside when the end came. He was first taken sick on Thursday morning, Feb. 10th, when he did feel able to attend to his legislative duties. He remained in his room but a physician was not summoned until the following day. He was then placed under the care of a nurse but the doctor was unable to detect anything alarming in his condition for several days and as late as Wednesday expressed confidence that he would be up and about his duties within a few days. Thursday morning, however, his condition showed a decided change for the worse and from that time on the real treachery of the disease was ever apparent and all the efforts of medical skill to check the spread of the disease proved futile, and while for a time on Friday afternoon he seemed to rally and thus give grounds for hope to those who tenderly watched over him, that vain hope was abruptly blasted when the poisons which he had been unable to throw off touched his heart and he suddenly expired.

Funeral services were held at Dunn's Funeral Home in Des Moines at [?] o'clock Saturday afternoon, which were attended by the members of the Iowa General Assembly and other friends in Des Moines. Rev. J. P. Burling of Des Moines, a former pastor of the Congregational church of Hawarden, spoke briefly at this service while Senator Abben, Representative Weaver and Senator Frailey delivered eulogies on the life of their friend and co-worker. Saturday's session of the House of Representatives was adjourned out of respect to the deceased after adopting resolutions of respect and naming a committee of six members to accompany the remains to Hawarden and act as honorary pall bearers at the funeral. This committee consisted of Representative Moen of Lyon county, Gilmore of [illegible] county, Held of Plymouth county, Harrison of O'Brien county, Year of [illegible] county, and Senator Abben of Lyon county.

The funeral party reached Hawarden Sunday noon over the Milwaukee line and the remains were taken to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Keniston where Mr. and Mrs. Merle Stone have made their home during the past year. Funeral services were held at 2:15 Monday afternoon at the Congregational church, where hundreds of life long friends of the deceased gathered to pay a last sad tribute of respect to his memory. Members of the Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen of America orders attended in a body and members of the Knights of Pythias were active pall bearers, while the members of the legislature acted as honorary pall bearers. Rev. A. M. McIntosh preached the funeral sermon, while Representative Moen and Senator Abben voiced expressions of esteem on behalf of the General Assembly and the state of Iowa. Mrs. F. H. Edminster sang two solos and following this service the remains were taken to Grace Hill cemetery where interment was made beside his wife who passed away less than three years ago. Besides members of the legislature others from a distance who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Stone of Sioux Falls, A. C. Forbes of Beresford, Mrs. Madge Geisal of Cedar Rapids, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Turner of Sioux City, Jas. C. Gillespie of LeMars, Justin Barry of Cherokee, and delegations from Orange City, Ireton and Sioux Center.

David Orland Stone, youngest son of Rufus and Almira Porter Stone, was born at Belpre, Ohio, Feb. 25, 1864, and in one more week would have reached his 57th birthday. He was brought by his parents to Cherokee county, Iowa, in 1867, reaching there on May 4th of that year. The following year they came to Sioux county and located at Calliope on Aug. 12, 1868, and his home has ever since been in this community. On Dec. 25, 1884, he was united in marriage with Miss Generzia Dunham, who shared with him the joys and sorrows of life for more than thirty-three years but who preceded him in death on Aug. 28, 1918. One son and one daughter, Merle R. Stone and Mrs. L. A. Armstrong, were born to this union, both of whom survive. He also leaves one brother, Fred P. Stone of Sioux Falls.
Thus between two dates has stretched the span of his life--an active, busy life that knew privations and hardships, sorrow and happiness. it is not an easy task to attempt here a word of tribute to one whose whole life has been like a guiding star to his children, his hand ever outstretched in a spirit of helpfulness, his every thought one of unselfish devotion. The hand fails to trace the words which the aching heartstrings are prompting and what we can say here is wholly inadequate to express the bond of love and affection that existed between father and children. Father--yea, he was much more than that--he was a companion, a friend. And this we know, that in his passing we have lost one in whom we ever had an implicit faith, one to whom we ever looked for guidance and advice, whose attitude was one of kindness and gentleness, and who was always considerate of our slightest wish. Our consolation must come in the certain knowledge that he lived a life which was strictly honorable in every particular and there is no more priceless heritage which a father can leave to his children than an honored name.

A review of his life and activities would be almost synonymous with the history of the growth and progress of this community, so closely was his daily life interwoven with the lives of those who have been his neighbors and friends throughout these years. Coming here in an early day when there were but three other families within the borders of the county, he has witnessed all the steps of its transformation from a wild, rolling prairie to the present state of high cultivation with its flourishing towns and prosperous people. For a number of years after the arrival of the family in Calliope they lived in a log house on the bank of the Sioux river. Here they passed through the vicissitudes of pioneer days--the grasshopper scourge and early day blizzards. He attended the common schools in Calliope and also attended school in Orange City for a couple of years and it was there that he started to learn the printer's trade at the age of fourteen, setting type out of school hours in the office of the Sioux County Herald. Later he worked for short periods of time in newspaper offices at Rock Valley and Hull. In December, 1880, his father purchased the Sioux County Independent, then published at Alton, and moved the plant to Calliope, but within a month was taken sick with the smallpox and died. Thus, before the son had reached the age of seventeen he found himself installed as editor of a newspaper. In partnership with his only brother, Fred P. Stone, he conducted the Calliope Independent for a time but soon acquired his brother's interest. The town of Hawarden was not founded until 1882, when the Northwestern railway built to this point, but immediately there sprang up an intense rivalry between the two towns. He [espoused?] the cause
Of Calliope for a number of years but finally recognized the inevitable supremacy of the newer town and moved his little printing plant to Hawarden in January of 1887, where he since conducted this newspaper. Thus for a period of more than forty years has he been actively identified with the business interests of this community and the daily life of its citizens. Children have been born, marriages consummated, and hundreds have been carried to their final resting place on the hill, and it has been his privilege to speak of these occurrences, welcome the new born, extend felicitations to the newly wed, and offer condolence and words of sympathy and cheer to those who mourned the loss of loved ones--all through the medium of his newspaper. His newspaper business was founded on the principle of service to the community and this ideal he ever endeavored to inculcate in those who labored with him in the production of his paper. Founded on this high ideal it is only natural that his business prospered accordingly. He sought to maintain a high standard of reliability in every issue of his paper and he took great pride in the mechanical neatness and typographical arrangement of his paper.

He always took an active interest in public affairs. He served as postmaster of Hawarden from 1895 to 1899 and was a member of the board of education of Hawarden for several years. In 1914 he was elected as Sioux county's representative in the state legislature and was re-elected three successive times. He had attained a position of commanding influence in the present session, where he was serving as chairman of the appropriations committee. He was respected and revered by his fellow members who admired his straightforward honesty and sincerity of purpose. One of his colleagues remarked that no one ever approached D. O. Stone with a shady transaction for they instinctively knew that any such proposal would be instantly frowned upon. He made no pretentions as an orator or public speaker but gained his position of leadership in the legislature through hard work, conscientious study, a desire for right and justice, and the exercise of an abundance of good, common sense.

The first of this year he admitted his son into a full partnership in his newspaper business and had so arranged his affairs that he might secure relief from some of the more arduous duties and responsibilities of the business. And it is just this fact that makes his untimely taking away so difficult to reconcile. His life has been one of service and devotion to others and just when he had reached the point where he might be able to really enjoy some of the fruits of his years of toil--while still in the fullness of health and enjoyment of life--to be thus ruthlessly stricken is a thing which the human heart and mind cannot comprehend.

Perhaps it was the call of his life's companion who passed to the Great Beyond just a brief while ago, the one whom he had devotedly loved and tenderly cared for. She may have beckoned to him. He was her constant companion during the closing years of her life when she needed him most and when she passed on, in paying a tribute to her memory, he chose to publish the following little verse which was his own composition:
"Somewhere, sometime, I know we'll meet again,
My heart will call so loud that yours will hear,
And then, across the miles that lie between,
You'll come to meet me--well, I know it, dear."
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From the Rock Valley Bee, February 25, 1921:
REP. D. O. STONE DIED FRIDAY IN DES MOINES
Representative D. O. Stone, one of the most prominent members of the Iowa State Legislature, and widely known throughout the state as publisher of the Hawarden Independent, died of erysipelas at the hotel where he was staying in Des Moines, Friday afternoon after an illness of eight days.
Mr. Stone was born at Belpre, Ohio, February 25, 1864, and came to Iowa in 1880, his father establishing a printing plant at Hawarden. His father died in the fall of the same year, 1880, and the son, D. O. Stone, succeeded him as proprietor of the Hawarden Independent which he published for more than forty years. Only recently he took his son, M. R. Stone in partnership with him.
This was Mr. Stone's third term in the house of representatives. He was first elected in 1914 and had served four years and had started his fifth year. He was chairman of the appropriations committee, one of the most important positions in the legislature, and was universally conceded to be one of the foremost leaders at the state house. He was also a member of the reform and retrenchment, judiciary, constitutional convention, commerce and trade, election, insurance, domestic manufactures and printing committees. Mr. Stone attended the session of the legislature on Thursday, a week before his death, but fell ill Thursday evening and rapidly became worse. During the first few days of his sickness, physicians despaired of saving his life, but the day before his death he rallied slightly and it was thought he might recover, but he later became worse.
Mr. Stone was one of the earliest pioneers of Sioux County. In fact, there are only one or two men now living in the county who were here when he came. He is well known throughout the state and especially in the northwest and in Sioux County and he was held in high esteem by all who knew him. Out of respect to him, the house of representatives adjourned for the afternoon following his death.
He is survived by one son, Merle Stone, whom he took into partnership with him last January, and one daughter, Mrs. J. A. Armstrong, of Hawarden. His wife died three years ago.
Funeral services were held at Hawarden Monday afternoon. A committee from the legislature consisting of Representatives T. Gilmore, G. E. Held, Harrison, F. W. Year and Senator Ben Abben attended the funeral at Hawarden. Services were also held in Des Moines, both the house and senate members attending in a body.
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Most of the other locally published obits are similar to that published in the Bee.
The Alton Democrat (Feb. 26) characterizes him as "a man of simple tastes and sound philosophy, always modest concerning his own achievements, never boastful, giving praise where praise was due and honestly serving the people of Sioux County as member of the legislature, giving the best service of which he was capable and for which he merited the thanks of the county."
The Alton Democrat obit also includes a photograph.
The Hawarden Independent of January 20, 1921, includes commentary from several other newspapers on the management transition from Stone to his son Merle, with some comments on the history of the newspaper and many compliments to it and to Stone. One of them notes that he was better known as "Brick."

Continuing with the script from the Hawarden Centennial book….

Merle Rufus Stone, oldest child of David O. and Generzia Dunham Stone, was born Jan 6, 1887 in Calliope. He moved to the newer town of Hawarden a short time after his birth and grew up in this community, always making his home here. He graduated from High School at the age of 16 in 1903, and received his degree in civil engineering from the University of Iowa in 1907. Following his graduation, he went to the US. newly acquired possession, the Phillippine Islands, where he was employed as a government civil engineer. Upon his return in 1910, he assisted his father in the newspaper business, while his father was serving as Sioux County’s representative in the state legislature. He married Nellie Elaine Finch, an old schoolmate. Their children were David O. and Dorothy. In Jan. 1921, after he had served in active duty in WWI, he was admitted into partnership with is father in the newspaper business, and following his father’s death a month later, continued as sole editor and publisher until his untimely death.

The events that mark his span of life are almost synonymous with the history of Hawarden. Born just at the time when Hawarden was making its life struggle for existence, he has grown up amidst its boom times and its depressions. Its trials have been his trials, its triumphs, his triumphs. Few in the community can lay claim to as wide a personal acquaintance as he. All who brought their troubles or problems or sought his advice in another way found a most willing, so gracious and comforting helper at their service, and whenever anyone wanted information concerning subjects involving an extensive scope. Merle Stone could always be relied upon to help.

Merle’s wife, Nellie Elaine Finch was the daughter of Milton J. and Amelia R. (McManus) Finch, and was born in Rock Valley, IA, in 1885, one of eight children. Milton Finch was the son of Jeremiah Landon Finch, who is believed to have been the founder of the Finch Family in NW IA. The Milton Finch family moved from Rock Valley to Garner, IA., then to Orange City, and then to Hawarden during the years from 1875 to 1902. (The sequence of the moves is not certain.) However, Milton J. Finch, served as Sioux Co. Auditor in the years around 1879, and as Clerk of courts in Orange city at some later time during this period, and then moved with his family to Hawarden, where he ran a hardware store. At least six of the eight children of Milton Finch lived in Hawarden during the mid 1890’s and into the first decade of this century. These included Olive, Clell Pliny , Earl E. Lee (Nellie’s twin), Nellie, and Max J. Finch. These children were born during the years 1878-1887; the two older Finch Children, Jerry and Catherine, were born in 1874 and 1876, respectively. It is not positive whether either Jerry of Catherine ever lived in Hawarden, but Catherine may have taught Merle Stone in school, as she may have taught school in Hawarden during the 1890’s or early 1900’s. Milton Finch’s wife Amelia and daughter Olive (Bush) died in 1902, and are buried in Grace Hill Cemetery, Milton and several of the others moved to Seattle at various times between 1904 and 1908. Lee Finch moved to California about that time and was the father of Dan Finch, who in the late 1930’s visited his father’s old home town and there found his bride, Norma Younie of Hawarden. (daughter of Richard ‘Dick’ Younie and Anna Leivestad Younie). Milton J. Finch died 1920 and is buried in Grace Hill Cemetery.

Two other members of grandfather Brick Stone’s household during the 1890’s and 1900’s who have not previously been mentioned are: Madge V. Davis and Garth Davis. They were two of the four orphaned children of Sarah Elizabeth Noreen Dunham Davis, a sister of Generzia Dunham Stone (wife of Brick Stone). Madge Davis was born Mar 19, 1887, married George Geisel in 1906, and subsequently married William G. Holton. She died in Flint MI, in 18979 at the age of 92, Garth Davis served and may have been killed in the Spanish American War. The other two Davis children who may or may not have lived in Hawarden at some time, were Irene Davis (who married B. W. Armstrong, a brother of Jack Armstrong, well-known Hawarden farmer and husband of Opal Stone Armstrong) and (Viva) Claire Davis. Claire Davis married Capt. Billy Fawcett, well-known resort owner (Breezy Point Lodge Pequot, MN.) and publisher of “Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang”, a slightly , by today’s standards, racy cartoon humor magazine which later became the foundation of the Fawcett publishing empire (True, True Confessions, Woman’s Day, Captain Marvel and other early comic books, and Signet Books, among others) .

David O ‘Brick’ Stone (Jr.) met his wife, Katherine at the University of Iowa. She originally came from Marengo IA. They have two grown children, a daughter who is a science teacher in New York City, and a son who is an economist working for the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D. C. when he is not doing research in the Orient or competing in some international rowing regatta in Europe or elsewhere in the world. He was a member of the U. S. “eight” representing this country in Olympic competition in rowing in 1976.

(Submitter’s research notes: )

From a report on ancestry.com - Rufus Stone was married 20 Nov 1856 Washington OH, to Almira R. Porter. Also reported in the report Rufus Stone died 13 February1881 Calliope, Hawarden IA. Almira R. Porter was born 6 May 1838 Little Hocking, Washington, OH. Died 23 Jan 1884, Calliope IA. Her parents were Cummings Porter 1778-1861 and Eleanor Johnston 1796-1861. Further that report has her family was traced back to John Porter 1658 Massachusetts.

In another ancestry report Benjamin Franklin Stone Jr. (father of Rufus) born about 1806 OH died Sep 1861 Belpre Washington OH, his parents were Benjamin Franklin Stone 1779-1924 and Zeuriah Cooley 1779-1812. The Stone ancestry can be traced back to Jonathan Stone 1717 in Massachusetts.

Census records found of the Stone family:

In the 1850 census of Belpre, Washington OH Rufus Stone was 18 years, his father and Mother were Benjamin F. Stone age 43 born 1807 in Ohio, and wife was Betsey Stone age 41 born 1809 Virginia- children listed were Rufus 18, Elizabeth 16, Milton 14, Charles 11, Eunice 9, Susan 6, Robert 3.

In the 1860 census of Belpre, OH Benj. F. Stone age 54 born 1806 OH Wife Betsy 52, Children Elizabeth 26, Milton 24, Charles 21, Eunice 19, Susan 15, Ezra 10, Joseph 6.

In the 1860 census of Little Hockhocking, OH Rufus Stone was living with his wife’s family – Cummings Porter 81, Ellen Porter 64, Ellen Porter 20, Alfred Forbs 7, Belvin Forbes 6, Almira Stone 22, Rufus Stone 28 and Fred Stone 2.

In the 1870 census of Range 95 Sioux County, Rufus Stone was 39 years, Elmira 37, D. O. 6 years, and Fred was 13.

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