Cross Co, AR - John Stoner Bio

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Submitted by: Mary Nell Burnett <mnburnett@sbcglobal.net>
        Date: 27 Feb 2003
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John Stoner, M. D., a retired physician of Tyronza, has been closely identified
with professional affairs during an active and busy life. He graduated from the
Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia In 1851, after which he commenced
the practice of his adopted calling in Pennsylvania, remaining there for three
years. While in that state he was married, in 1842, to Louisa Bixler, who died
in 1866, leaving five children, two still living: Robley D. Stoner and Mary (
the wife of Mr. Simcox ). Dr. Stoner married, in 1867, hi second wife, formerly
Miss. Kate Huxtable, of New York State. They are the parents of two children:
Frank and Ida. Dr. Stoner was born in  York County, Penn., October 17, 1822,
and was a son of Samuel S. Stoner, originally from Germany, and Mary Brubaker,
of Pennsylvania nativity. About 1871 Dr. Stoner moved to Arkansas, and settled
in Cross County, where he now lives, having been engaged in farming and stock
raising since that time. He has a fine place of 320 acres on the St. Francis
River. Dr. Stoner served in the Union Army for three years, as assistant
surgeon in the Seventy-Seventh Illinois Infantry. Himself and wife are members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He also belongs to the I. O. O. F.,
and is recognized as a citizen of influence and worth.
 
Citation Details: Page 383,The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of
Eastern Arkansas,  Goodspeed Publishing Company Chicago, Illinois, Publish Date
1978, Original Publish Date1890, Southern Historical Press, Easley, South
Carolina.