Sources
1. "Doris Miller Woodruff," December 27, 2002, Burt Woodruff III, Indianapolis, IN.
2. Paul Leroy Miller, Jr. April 2003. Picture, notes, narratives.
3. Helen Stone Woodruff's research summary
4. Jess Long, "Billie Guynes GED," Aug 17, 1998, longjohn@wt.net.
5. "Interview with John Martin," March 6, 2004, Burt Woodruff, Bull Shoals, Arkansas.
6. Eagleson, Pamela Stone, In Search of An Ancestry: The Stone-Shearmire Family History, p39.
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7. Sherry Boder, August 4, 1999 at Licking Cty Genealogical Society
8. The History of Grant & Hardy County, West Virginia.
9. "James Stone Will," Will Book 3-Page 2.
In the name of God Amen, I James Stone of Hardy County and State of Virginia, being weak in body but of sound mind and disposing memory (for which I thank God) and calling to mind the uncertainity of human life is, and being desirous to dispose of all such Worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with, I give and bequeath the same in manner following, that is to say:
#1. I give and bequeath to my Lovving wife, Rebeckay Stone the Plantation whereon I now dwell, containing two hundred acres and also all my Personal Property that is on the said Plantation at my decease during herNatural Life and at her death to be disposed of as follows. To Wit: #2. I give and bequeath to my sonThomas Stone, one dollar. #3. I give and bequeath to my son George W. Stone one hundred and thiry six acres of land lying on the big ridge adjoining the land my son Thomas sold, to him and his heirs and assigns forever. #4. I give and bequeath to my son James Stone one hundred acres of land adjoining the land he sold to Harmon, to him, his heirs and assigns forever. #5. I give and bequeath to my son Samuel Stone one hundred acres of land lying in the State of Ohio, Licking County between the lands of my sons George & Thomas, to him, his heirs and assigns forever. #6. I give and bequeath to my daughter Mary Davis fifty dollars to be paid twelve months after the death of my wife, out of my Estate. #7. I give and bequeath to my daughter Margaret Johnston fifty dollars to be paid twelve months after the death of my wife out of my Estate. #8. I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Baker fifty dollars out of my Estate to be paid twelve months after the death of my wife. #9. I give and bequeath to my daughter Rebekah Myers fifty dollars to be paid twelve months after the death of my wife out of my Estate. #10. I give and bequeath to my youngest son William B. Stone after the death of my wife, the land whereon I now live and all the land adjoining to it with all the remaining part of my Estate that is left when he has paid off all claims and the Negro Girl Sharlote and all her increase to be sold and equally divided---among all my children and I do ordain this to be my last Will and Testament and I do desire that this Will shall only be proved and recorded and no administration at all, only proved and recorded and I do ordain my wife and William B. Stone and Samuel Stone to be Executors of this my last Will and Testament in presence of us. To which I shall set my hand and seal the 3 November 1809."
Acknowledge to be my last Will James Stone
William Read
Benjamin Warden
Thomas Hamel
10. Eagleson, Pamela Stone, In Search of An Ancestry: The Stone-Shearmire Family History.
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11. Ibid. 39.
12. Ibid. p40.
13. Hill, N. N., History of Licking County Ohio, 1881.
14. Eagleson, Pamela Stone, In Search of An Ancestry: The Stone-Shearmire Family History, p43.
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15. Ibid. p44.
16. Hill, N. N., History of Licking County Ohio, 1881, p. 719.
17. Eagleson, Pamela Stone, In Search of An Ancestry: The Stone-Shearmire Family History, p45.
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18. Schaff, Morris, History of Granville, Etna, and Kirkersville.
"Our postoffice, after 1850 was Kirkersville (generally called Kirk). In its stores, the family trading was done. Our Family Physician lived there, Dr. Farrell, a tall, broad shouldered man with large rather cowering blue eyes, but a naturally happy nature. At its Grist Mill, owned by Captain Jim Stone, about all our flour and corn-meal was ground. All around the tow, on the richest of frams and amid plenty lived our warm hearted neighbors, Stones, Deweeses, Finkbones (Henry, Isaac, and John), Jacksons, Wells, Gills (Nicholas and John), Charles, Bucklands, Whites, Larrimore, Hewetts, Stoolfires, Cunningham, Holmes and many others.
Captain James Stone, so frequently mentioned in this sketch, was easily its foremeost citizen in my day. He was about my father's age, having been born in Licking about 1800, only a few years after its settlement. The Captain, like my father, was a Democrat and a leader in his party, serving as County Commissioiner from time to time, and in other positions of Trust and Responsibility. I do not know how he got his title but doubtless for service in some of the early militia regiments. His acquaintance extended to the widest limits of Licking and Fairfield Counties. He knew their people, their woods, their creek runs and swamp. Many a time, with a pleasure that he was not conscious of, did I hear him talk of them, the game and the times of his youth. It does not need to be said that his sketch would have been immeasureably benefited if I had realized the hsitoric value and had written dwon at the time all I heard from him and his contempoary pioneers.
The Captain was a short, stocky man with a square, oopen face. His ways were quiet, his eyes blue with expansive kindness beaming in them. His voice low and his laugh memody itself. He rarely told a story, but loved a good one dearly. Although he was much older than most of those who used to gather in the stage tavern bar room or on its porch, and although naturally sedate, he was olways one of them. I doubt if there was anyone who heard more of Kirkersville's humor, or who appreciated it more highly.
This pioneer, good advisor and good friend of everyone, sleeps in the graveyard on the gravelly knoll across Bloody Run, almost due sought from his mill and within sound of its wheel. Whenever I was on a visit at home, while the Captain wa alive, I always went down to see him and many a time sepnt hour after hour in the mill. I can see now the bags of wheat and corn standing around the pillars and against the side of the mill marked with their owners name and waiting for their turn. The hopper with its trickling stream of grain as it jiggled down into the whirling burr stones, the great noisless, revolving bold and the windows dimmed with flour dust."
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"Dennis Smoke's farm was south of ours. He lived in a log house in the center of the field he had cleared with his own strong arms. In this field was the house he reared a large and well respected family. Any boy or girl, who can trace their linage back to them, may well be proud of the blood."
19. "Helen Visits Kirkersville," 1979, Helen Stone Woodruff, Kirkesville, Ohio.
We visited Kirkersville in 1979 and talked with the sone of Henry Geiger. He told us of the fire that had destroyed the old mill. He had built a replica of the mill in his basement and allowed us to take pictures of it. We were also given a picture of the covered bridge that was in front of the Stone home.
We visited the Cemetary, and although there are many Stone graves, we were unable to find one for James or Ruth. Many stones had been broken by vandals and destroyed by time, some were in fence rows. One noticeable thing was that the Stone markers that were still there, and in Pataskala were the largest in many instances.
20. Brister, E. M., Centennial History of the City of Newark and Licking County.
"Among the original member of the Methodist Church were William Moody and wife, John Channell and wife, Thomas Taylor and wife, William Montgomery and wife and others. Prior to the erection of a church, services were often held in the cabins of William Moody and John Channell.
"John Channell, a great hunter, Thomas Deweese, and Henry Smith were pioneers in 1804. they were Virginians. John Channell was a somehat remarkable pioneer on account of his hunting exploits, a recital of which would make a volume. Some idea may be gleaned of his prowess in this direction by the single statement that he once informed Thomas Taylor that he killed nine bears one day before noon. These animals were very plentiful on the bluffs lining Licking Valleys, Channell had been raised among the Indians, was tall, straight as an Indian, had black hair and a swarthy complexion. Indeed looked and acted more like an Indiana than a white man. He raised quite a large family and his bosys were all hunters."
21. History of Caldwell and Livingston Counties, Missouri, 1886.
22. "John S. McMillen 1995 Information," 2 May 2004, Attached.
JOHN ALFRED McMILLEN was born 27 June 1839 at Winchester, Adams County, Ohio, the fourth of twelve children born to George Washington McMillen and Cornelia Anderson Field.
George Washington McMilIen was the son of a James McMiIlen, (said to have' been a veteran of the Revolutionary War). Cornelia Field was a granddaughter of John Field and Margaret Pearle of Fauquier and Loudoun Counties, Virginia, and of Charles Anderson and Lucy Stokes of Amelia and Lunenberg Counties, Virginia. Lucy Stokes was (probably) the great-great-granddaughter of a John and Anne Stokes who came to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1624. Charles Anderson was the son of James and Elizabeth Anderson; this Elizabeth was Elizabeth Ligon (there is some slight doubt as to this identification), who was of royal descent from the kings of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Greece; among her American ancestors were a Thomas Gurganey, who came to Jamestown in 1608, and Thomas Harris, who came to Jamestown in 1610.
When John A. McMillen was four, his family moved to Foster, Bracken County, Kentucky, then to Effingham County, Illinois, and after his mother died there in 1859, back to Kentucky. Later that year, he followed two of his brothers, J.W. McMillen and Drury McMillen, to Missouri, settling in Utica where his brother J.W. McMillen was a lawyer as well as publisher of the Utica Times and a manufacturer of buggy tops in Chillicothe. Soon thereafter, John and a friend, George Stone, rented land from George's father and grew tobacco. Being a Southern sympathizer, John left Missouri in 1862 to avoid the Union draft and returned to Kentucky where in 1863 he was appointed a deputy sheriff in Grant County, Kentucky Later, when his brother was been elected as state legislator and so made John immune from the draft, John returned to Utica.
On 2 February 1865, he married:
SUSAN MELVINA STONE, born 13 September 1845 at Utica, Missouri, the seventh of eight children of Judge John Stone and Susan Stover.
John Stone's ancestry has been traced back to his great-grandfather, Thomas Stone, who had a plantation on the Occequon (Bull Run) River of Virginia. Susan Stover was descended from the German settlers of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Through her mother, Susanna Brumback, Susan was (possibly) descended from Sarah Boone, aunt of Daniel Boone, while the Brumback family can be traced back to prominent ironworking families of 1375 in the Siegen Valley of Germany.
After their marriage, John and Susan first lived in Utica where John was. in partnership in a drug and grocery' store with Susan's brother Ashford Stone. In 1873, they moved to their farm one mile south of Utica, on land. given them by Susan's father, where they lived
---until-1902-.John farmed onal 160 acres on Creèk, anda1s was a breeder of fine horses. In 1902, they moved to Mooresville where he helped organize the bank in 1904 and served as President of the Board of Directors. John died there in Mooresville on 17 January 1923. After his death; Susan and one of their daughters, Lucy, built a house in Utica and moved there in 1925, where Susan died on 30 August 1931. John and Susan are buried in the Utica City Cemetery.
As of this writing, John and Susan are known to have had 10 children, 38 grandchildren, 75 greatgrandchildren, 176 great-great-children (including 6 adopted), 176 great-great-great-grandchildren (including 2 adopted), and 7 great-great-great-great-grandchildren:
Received 2 May 2004 from John S. McMillen, Brookings, OR
My grandfather is Samuel Stone McMillen son of John and Susan---Sam married Hermie Wanschaff...they had five children one of which is my late father John Henry McMillen. Received May 3, 2004
23. Eagleson, Pamela Stone, In Search of An Ancestry: The Stone-Shearmire Family History, p57.
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24. Memorial Record of Licking County, Ohio, Record Plublishing Co., 1894.
25. Eagleson, Pamela Stone, In Search of An Ancestry: The Stone-Shearmire Family History, p48.
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