Genesee-Macomb County MI Archives Biographies.....Stone, Samuel 1818 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

SAMUEL STONE. The hardships of pioneer life have been endured by this well-known
resident of Fenton Township, Genesee County, and he did a great deal of the work
which falls to the lot of the early settler, as his father, Theophilus Stone,
came hither about the year 1832 and as his son, who was born in Genesee County,
N. Y., November 6, 1818, was then a lad of fourteen years he had abundant
opportunities to exercise all his young strength and ingenuity in helping to
develop the new country.

  The father was a shoemaker by trade and he settled in Macomb County, where he
took up Government land which had been partly cleared, but in course of time
sold that property and came to Genesee County, about the year 1839 and here he
bought land on section 10, which is now owned by our subject. Upon this unbroken
and uncultivated land they built a log house and having cleared a portion of the
farm began to improve it. Our subject remembers when deer and wild game were
plentiful. The father, who died during the '50s, was a man of character and
integrity, who was highly respected wherever known, and was a member of the
Presbyterian Church. His good wife, whose maiden name was Lydia Graves, was a
native of New York and survived him for eight years. Six of their children are
now living.

  The log schoolhouse in which our subject took his elementary education was two
miles distant from his home and thither the sturdy little fellow made his way
regularly, determined to gain an education. He was the eldest of the family and
therefore his time was somewhat broken in upon by family needs, much of it being
given to labor. At the age of twenty-one he bought apiece of land in Fenton
Township and began to work it. He subsequently sold this and returned to the old
homestead where he undertook the care of his parents and has since made his home
here.

  Sarah Britton, a New Yorker by birth, became the wife of our subject in 1855,
and to them were granted six children, three of whom are still living, namely:
Ciara, the wife of John Orr a farmer of Franklin Township; Fannie, Mrs. Alvin
Buck, lives upon an adjacent farm and William is still with his father.

  Mr. Stone was trained a Whig in his youth but became a Republican after the
formation of that party. In 1852 he made a journey across the plains to
California and was absent about two and one-half years, consuming some six
months in his journey across the continent. He engaged in gold mining, in which
he was fairly successful and upon his return came by way of the Isthmus. This
experience in the West satisfied him for a time only, and in 1859 he went
accompanied by his wife to Pike's Peak, Col., and there spent eight months.
These experiences in the wilder parts of our country were of great interest to
Mr. Stone but he now feels satisfied to remain in the beautiful State of Michigan.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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