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Claire
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Posted: 06.05.2005, 05:14
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registered: May. 2005
Posts: 2
Status: offline
last visit: 26.05.07
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May 6 2005 New Zealand
Hi everyone
My email will be a surprise for you all. I don't think our STONER relatives are related to you so please just accept my greetings from New Zealand.
I am very impressed with your website and how friendly and chatty it looks. But it has been a struggle to work out how to search. Finally I realised that Stoner is a relatively new surname in your family line so all descendants are private.
About a week ago my husband spoke the prophetic words "would you search for my family" so with great speed I abandoned all the genealogical searches for friends and my own family and went on a crash course in American history and website hunting.
My husband's grandmother was Bessie Cecilia STONER born "1880" (or so she said) in Baxter Springs Kansas. From Monday this week, every lunch has seen me in the National Library of New Zealand using their Ancestry.com US census records. I found Bessie as a young girl of 16 in 1900 with her father George (born Pennsylvania) and mother Arubah (born Illinois) and brothers in Whiting Township in Kansas. In the same 1900 census in Hoqiam New York I found my husband's grandfather Thomas Young Clark as a boarder of nationality "Australasia". 24 days later Bessie and Thomas are married in Hoqiam (information from a child's birth certificate detail here in New Zealand).
I cannot believe my good fortune in finding a young 16 year old captured at her home on census night 5 June 1900 and hence telling us all about her brothers and parents .... and across a few states her husband-to-be captured on a census too in the right place of his future marriage 24 days later. Sometimes genealogists deserve a break and this was one of those occurences.
I guess Bessie added a few years to her age and became 20 years old when she probably ran away from home and married in New York. Some time after their marriage Thomas and Bessie went out to Oregon and eventually both returned to New Zealand before 1909 to Thomas's home town in Invercargill where he built many municipal buildings.
Bessie's brothers Garfield, Clarence, Theodore, Charles and George all left Whiting Kansas after 1900 and settled in Blaine County Oklahoma. They were joined by their father George. I am guessing the father George was a soldier in the Civil War 1861 - 1865 as in 1920 I have found him in the Union Soldiers Home Oklahoma.
All this has meant that my husband and I have become engrossed over the past few days in reading websites about Indians territories, wam pum and battle sites. From knowing nothing about American history we are learning fast.
There are two siblings that I have lost after 1880 = Ernest and Mabel. Their mother says in the 1900 census that they are still alive as she had 8 children and 8 are still alive. As most of the Blaine County STONER descendants had few children, I am therefore not hopeful of finding any descendants still alive.
I will leave my email address in case this message is read a few years from now and someone recognises a connection
Best wishes to you all
Claire Clark tandc.clark@clear.net.nz
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CStoner
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Posted: 10.05.2005, 12:29
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registered: Jun. 2002
Posts: 144
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last visit: 06.05.08
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Hello and welcome!
Thank you for sharing your information. There may be a connection in the STONER line after all. My husband's family STONER is also from Kansas. I have an old, hand written family history that I need to transcribe relating to the Kansas STONER's going back quite far.
Our son (and webmaster) is marrying this summer and I'm a bit consumed with plans and fun... I'll try to create a GEDCOM file from the history later this year, so check back!
Again, thank you for writing,
Cheryl Fenrich Stoner
Oceanside, CA
Cheryl Fenrich Stoner
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Claire
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Posted: 18.07.2005, 07:39
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registered: May. 2005
Posts: 2
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last visit: 26.05.07
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Hi Cheryl
Thanks for replying. I have just "lost " my lengthy response so will abbreviate our new information. I have had 3 further pieces of research success with our search for the relatives of grandmother Bessie Stoner of Whiting Kansas.
Firstly I have received the Pension file (all 300 ....... yes 300 pages) for her father George B. Stoner, a Union soldier. Many pages were blank except for the date stamp, but still I gleaned pieces of information on his health, drinking bad water, malarial mosquitoes and the banging of the drum on his leg on marches. I also had 3 listings of his children and know he is buried in Whiting at Wheatland Cemetery with his first wife Azubah WILCOX and several children. His full name could be George Balsley or Bazlen STONER.
Secondly I have traced the family through censuses back to 1850 and forward to 1930
Thirdly I received information from Richard Weber, author of the "STONER Brethren". We are not in the book but he has the research of Samuel Cheslie STONER, George B's nephew and hence Bessie's first cousin who researched our family in the 1930s to 1950s, dying in California in 1963.
The tree is
Christian STONER b 12 Feb 1793 Cumberland Co, PA marries 3 times to 3 unknown women, dying 3 Jul 1884 Bureau Co, IL; issue John b abt 1813 PA, Daniel b abt 1815 PA,Christian b abt 1819 PA.
John STONER b abt 1813 PA, marries Sarah Pretz 1837 in Cumberland Co, PA with issue: George B. b 20 Oct 1840, Elizabeth Lizzie, Mary, Simon, Sarah, Elmer, Emma, and a 9th siblng.
George B. Stoner b 20 Oct 1840 marries (1) Azubah WILCOX 8 Oct 1867 at Princeton, Bureau Co, Illinois and marries (2) Marie Abraham (nee Syfert).
Issue only from the first marriage: Charles b Feb 22 1869 Illinois, Elmer E b 6 or 8 April 1871 Kansas ? d 1882, John E Stoner b 27 Dec 1873 Kansas, Mabel M. Stoner b April 5 1875 Kansas, Clarance A Stoner b March 12 1877 Kansas, Garfield A. Stoner b 1880 Feb 12, William Stoner b 9 March 1882 d 10 mar 1882, Bessie Stoner b 29 March 1884 Baxter Springs, Kansas, George C. Stoner b 6 Aug 1886 Kansas married Marie, Theordore Harison Stoner b Jan 17 1887 Kansas m Myrtle Abraham.
I'll post this before I risk losing it. Hope someone recognises a few names.
Claire in Wellington, New Zealand
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