Isaac Hugh Stone, Jr.
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Isaac Hugh Stone, Jr.
By Spessard Stone
Isaac H. Stone, Jr., a pioneer settler of Jackson County, was a Confederate soldier and farmer.
Isaac Hugh Stone, Jr., son of Isaac Hugh Stone and Frances (Sansom) Stone, was born October 17, 1845(?), Jackson County, Florida. There are no dates on his tombstone. In his CSA pension application, he variously gave his birth as October 17, 1837 and October 17, 1847; however, censuses of 1850 and 1860 Calhoun County, respectively, listed him as five and fifteen years old.
Isaac married (1) in Calhoun County, Florida September 12, 1867 Anne Flowers, born ca. 1850; died ca. 1872.
Isaac married (2) October 13, 1873 in Jackson County, Florida, Melissa Ann P. (Coppedge) Johnson Griffin, daughter of John W. and Elizabeth Coppedge. She was born March 14, 1844; died March 26, 1875; buried Shady Grove Cemetery, Grand Ridge, Florida. Melissa had married (1) William W. Johnson, February 2, 1862 in Jackson County, Florida and (2) John W. Griffin, April 8, 1867 in Jackson Co., Florida.
Isaac married (3) in Jackson Co., Fla. May 5, 1883 Elizabeth “Lizzie” Peacock. She was born July 31, 1856, Jackson County, Florida,; died February 16, 1895; buried Shady Grove Cemetery.
Isaac married (4) September 21, 1900 in Jackson County, Florida Ella (Mears) Sims Edenfield, born July 6, 1868, Henry County, Alabama; died August 3, 1960; buried Shady Grove Cemetery. She had married (1) January 12, 1882 in Jackson County, Florida James Henry Sims, born ca. 1853. She married (2) November 20, 1887 in Jackson County, Florida Calvin Miles Edenfield, born April 12, 1867; divorced.
On June 1, 1903, Isaac Hugh Stone applied for a Confederate pension from the state of Florida. He swore that he enlisted on or about May 1863 in Calhoun County in Captain Clinton Thigpen's Company A, 2d Fla. Cav. He averred: "I was wounded in right thigh at battle at Darvey's Still but it was a flesh wound. I was taken sick with fever at Baldwin Fla. & was sent to the hospital at Marianna Fla & was there until the raid at Marianna Sept 27th 1864 when I under instruction from officers left to escape capture & went home & later returned to my company-- I contracted cattarrh of head & bronchitis while in service & have never recovered from it. I also contracted rheumatism while in active service & stricken that. The fever above mentioned disabled me & I have never fully recovered my strength. I have kidney trouble & suffer greatly." I. H. Stone gave his P. O. address as Sneads, Fla. In this application he gave his birth as "17th day of October 1837 in Jackson county, State of Florida." Cornelius Rogers and Lt. Archibald McMillan, late of Co. A, 2nd Fla. Cav., swore they served with him. His claim was approved 15 Mar 1904, with pay from June 5, 1903 at the rate of $96.00 per annum.
On July 17, 1909, Isaac H. Stone reapplied under the Act of 1909. On this occasion he gave his birth as "17 day of Oct 1847, in the county of Jackson, State of Florida." He stated that he had enlisted as I. H. Stone at Camp Jehu in Calhoun Co., Fla. April or May 1863 in Co. A and was honorably discharged at Baldwin and took the oath in Tallahassee in May 1865. He listed his property as: 160 acres in southeast part of Jackson County, Fla. $500.00; 3 horses--13 cows--50 head 310.00; personal property 200.00; Total $1010.00. He gave his postoffice address as Cowfort, Jackson County. Thioph West, M.D., diagnosed, "the scars of gun shots wounds on the right shoulder and the right leg, which indicate considerable disability of the right arm and leg in addition to the above condition he is advanced in life, being 62 years old." His claim was approved September 1, 1909, with pay continued at the previous rate of $120 per annum, pensioner no. 2206.
On September 1, 1910 Isaac H. Stone of Route 1, Box 22, Grand Ridge, Fla. applied for a pension increase. He gave his age as 70. Records are incomplete whether or not it was granted.
Isaac Hugh Stone died January 28, 1919, Grand Ridge, Jackson County and was buried in Shady Grove Cemetery.
After his death, his heirs, J. L. Stone, Clara Lewis, Lula Edenfield, T. B. Stone, J. H. Stone, Eliza Money, and Ella Stone in her own behalf and as guardian of her minor son, I. H. Stone, Jr. petitioned J. Bowers Campbell, County Judge of Jackson County, for a settlement of his estate. Ella Stone, I. H. Stone, Jr., and J. H. Stone each received a forty-acre tract of land; the others having each prior to Isaac's death been deeded forty acres. Furthermore, all of the personal property, including $548.15 in the Citizens State Bank of Marianna, was divided, apparently, in February 1919. That Isaac, Sr. was a farmer was evidenced by assets, which included: 40 head of hogs, 12 head of cattle, 24 head of goats, 1 9-year-old gray horse, 1 19-year-old gray horse, 1 mower & rake, 1 lot plows, 1 cultivator & middle buster, 1 sugar mill & pan.
On March 11, 1919, Ella Stone applied for a pension as the widow of I. H. Stone, who died January 28, 1919 in Jackson County. She stated she had resided continuously in Florida "since birth now 52 years ago." Her address was Rt. 1, Grand Ridge. Her claim was approved May 7,1919, with pay from March 18, 1919 at the rate of $180 per annum, pensioner no. 2134. In continuing her application on December 4, 1930 at Grand Ridge, Ella declared in part: "The truth is Mr. Stone never enlisted at all. Captain McMillan just picked him up when he was a boy, too young to be mustered into service and he stayed with McMillan's Co. Capt. McMillan gave him a horse to ride and later a gun. That is what Mr. Stone told me. Mr. Stones father was named Isaac H. Stone...Mr. Stone was raised up an orphan. His parents both died when he was small. He never knew how old he was. He had no record of his age."
On February 27, 1931, Ella was dropped from the roll after H. M. Dickson, 54, of Shady
Grove, on December 4, 1930 gave a statement, in which he said that Isaac's "wife and my wife were cousins...Isaac Stone, if living would now be about 68 years old..." Thus, if true Isaac would only have been an infant in the war and his widow ineligible for a pension. On March 3, 1931 Ella responded with an appeal and subsequently with affidavits proving I. H. Stone's age as being the eighties, if living. One affidavit of March 9, 1931 was from J. W. Yon, born May 31, 1858, who related, "I. H. Stone and his mother were half brother and sister..." On December 11, 1933, W. Alford of Jackson County swore, "Isaac Hugh Stone...lived in the upper edge of Calhoun County, and lower edge of Jackson County...the only Isaac Hugh Stone who lived in said territory except his son Isaac for the last fifty years..."
On August 2, 1937, Ella designated I. H. Stone to receive, after her death, all amounts accruing to her as a Confederate pensioner. On September 26, 1958, the Dade County Veterans Service Office wrote the state service officer in St. Petersburg in support of her claim. On October 2, 1958, the Dade County Veterans Service Office wrote Tallahassee in regard Confederate veteran widow's benefits for Ella E. Stone, 621 N.W. 97th Street, Miami, who was drawing state funds as a Confederate widow. A letter, dated October 7, 1958, Miami, noted Ella had not remarried since the death of Isaac H. Stone.
Ella Stone died August 3, 1960, Grand Ridge. State Death Registrations gave her age as 99, but her initial pension application indicated she was 93. At her death she was receiving $100 pension per month.
Issue of Isaac Hugh Stone, Jr. and (1) Anne (Flowers) Stone:
1. Annie Eliza Stone, born December 22, 1870; died June 10, 1938; married (1) John H. Comerford; (2) July 5, 1893 Thomas “Tom” Money.
Issue of Isaac Hugh Stone, Jr. and (2) Melissa Stone:
2. John Hugh Stone, born March 6, 1875; died March 14, 1920; married in Jackson Co., Fla. May 23, 1897 Susie M. Sherrod.
Issue of Isaac Hugh and (3) Elizabeth (Peacock) Stone:
3. Jesse Lee Stone, born June 25, 1884; died May 6, 1942.
4. Tom Benjamin Stone, born November 1886; married on Dec. 6, 1910 in Calhoun Co., Fla., Mary Carlton.
5. Clara Stone, born June 29, 1891; died Oct. 9, 1975; married Albert William Lewis.
6. Lula Stone, born Nov. 27, 1893; died Jan. 2, 1980; married on Feb. 15, 1914 in Jackson Co., Fla., Sidney Edenfield.
7. William Stone.
Issue of Isaac Hugh Stone, Jr. and (4) Ella Stone:
8. Isaac Hugh “Ike” Stone, born Aug. 7, 1902; died July 7, 1992; married Amy Elmira Waldorf.
References: U. S. Original Census Schedules: 6th Census 1840, Jackson County, Florida, 7th Census 1850, Calhoun County, Florida, 8th Census, 1860 Calhoun County and 1860 Jackson County, 12th census 1900 Jackson County; pension applications of Isaac Hugh Stone and Ella Stone, Florida State Archives, Tallahassee; James Edenfield, Edenfield Web Site;
This profile is adapted from the author’s Lineage of John Stone, Blockmaker, 2000.
February 11, 2001 & links = October 16, 2001