HENRY STONE
Henry Stone lives upon section 1, of Bear Grove township, where he located in May, 1868, purchasing then a farm of eighty acres, to which he has since added another eighty acres, and now owns a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres. Mr. Stone was born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, June 16, 1818. He was reared upon a farm and has always followed farming. He was married, February 22, 1846, to Sarah A. Tracy, also a native of Litchfield county, born July 31, 1819. In 1853, they emigrated to Henderson county, Illinois, and worked rented lands until 1867. In that year they removed to Cass county, and settled in Bear Grove the following year, as before stated. They have had three children--Samuel C., born in Connecticut, January 23, 1847; Lester W., also born in Connecticut, February 7, 1850; and Eva C., born in Illinois, September 27, 1857. Eva C. died in April, 1864.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 713.
