BIO: Stone, George P. - Barren Co "HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884. GREENE CO., IN. RICHLAND TWP. PAGE 355 GEORGE P. STONE was born in Barren County, Ky., March 8, 1842, a son of Stanford and Margaret (Smith) Stone, who were natives of Maine where they were reared, married and resided until 1841, when they moved to Kentucky, making that State their home until their respective deaths. Stanford Stone was a Methodist minister and a man of education, refinement and purity of life and character. He was a zealous worker in the cause of Christianity, and at the time of his death in 1858 was a Presiding Elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife died in 1862. They were the parents of three children, one of whom -- Jasper -- served his country in the late war; was Second Lieutenant in Company C, Thirty-seventh Kentucky Mounted Infantry, and was killed near Tompkinsville, Ky., in 1864. A daughter named Lucretia is the wife of J. T. Hartley, and resides in Liverpool, Eng. The only surviving son is the subject of this memoir. He was raised as are most itinerant preaachers' sons, and was a student at Transylvania College when the war broke out. Like his brother, he espoused the Union cause, and in 1861 became a member of the Ninth Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, participating in the battles of Shiloh, Perry- ville, Murfreesboro, Nashville and a number of lesser engagements. He was slightly wounded several times, and was almost constantly in active service until his retirement from the army. By reason of meritorious con- duct, he was given a Captain's commission of Company C, Thirty-seventh Kentucky Volunteers about a year after his enlistment, and his official conduct as an officer of the Union army was such as to reflect credit and honor upon himself and company. After the war, he read law in his native State, was admitted to practice, and in 1867 located in Brazil, Ind., prac- ticing his profession in the courts of Clay and adjoining counties. In 1879, he located at Worthington, but the winter of 1883 moved to Bloomfield, which has since been his home. As a counselor and advocate, Mr. Stone is among the first in Greene County and is eminently successful in his profession. He is a Republican in politics and a member of the Masonic, K. of P. and K. of H. fraternities. His marriage with Miss Lucy J. Larr was solemnized October 15,1868, and William B., Lillian and Edwin H., are their children. Mrs. Stone was born at Dresden, Ohio, in June, 1844. From: "Diana Flynn" Date: 25 Jun 1998