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Samuel Theophilus Stone Sr
1797 – 23 Oct 1857
| Birth | 1797 |
| Death | 23 Oct 1857 |
| Cemetery | Texas State Cemetery Austin , Travis County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Gena Forsyth on 29 Oct 2006 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10709171 |
Bio
STONE, SAMUEL THEOPHILUS. - (1797-1857) Samuel Theophilus Stone, ferryman, son of Theophilus and Mary (Bydeman) Stone, was born in Bedford County, Virginia, in 1797. He was a descendant of William Stone, an early settler of Bedford, Virginia, and third proprietary governor of Maryland. In 1814 Stone volunteered for service in the War of 1812. He joined the Virginia militia at Baltimore, Maryland, as a private. At the time he gave his occupation as hatter and was described as being six feet tall, "with dark hair, blue eyes, and fair skin." He was honorably discharged in 1814. He married Mary Ann Chunn on August 14, 1823, in Morgan County, Alabama. In 1829 they moved to Hannibal, Missouri; Stone established the first ferry at Hannibal across the Mississippi River. In the spring of 1839 he and his brother-in-law James Boyce, with five other families of Hannibal, moved to Texas. Stone and his family first settled at Bastrop, where he worked as a hatter and operated a ferry across the Colorado River. He and his sons often served as volunteers to defend the frontier against marauding Indians and Mexicans. When Gen. Adrian Woll seized San Antonio in September 1842, Stone, who was in San Antonio on business, was captured and carried into Mexico as a prisoner. After his release on March 23, 1844, he returned to Bastrop and in 1845 moved to Austin with his family. Stone purchased a tract of land on the south bank of the Colorado River southwest of Austin; in 1846 he began operation of the first ferry across the Colorado River at Austin. Stone and his two older sons went to California during the gold rush and returned with a few gold nuggets. They built a new and larger ferryboat, which operated near the mouth of Waller Creek, and a comfortable home, where the Stone family lived through the next two generations. Stone died at his home near Austin on October 23, 1857, and was buried on his home place. Years later, his grave and that of his eldest child, Mrs. Martha Ann Rebecca Hague, were moved to a private cemetery at the farm of Stone's granddaughter, some ten miles southeast of Austin. In 1954 the remains of Stone and his wife were moved to the State Cemetery.
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- Martha Ann Rebecca Stone Hague 1825–1869
- Thomas H Stone 1833–1911
- Samuel Theophilus Stone Jr 1837–1921
- Chas. W. Stone 1842–1919
- Mary Ophelia Stone Boyce 1845–1937
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