Hopkins Co., TX - Obit: Oliver Stone ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: June E. Tuck USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** From the files of June Tuck STONE, OLIVER - Who had been sick for sometime, died this morning and will be buried here tomorrow. He was one of our oldest citizens. He leaves a wife, two sons, and three daughters. Dutch Stone of Paris and Mrs. Compton of Hugo have been here with their father. (S.S. Gazette, Fri., Nov. 6, 1908, Sulphur Bluff column dated Nov. 2nd) Later report - Mr. O. T. Stone died November 3, 1908. He was born in the state of South Carolina May 10, 1830, came to Texas in 1839 when Texas was only a wild waste, occupied by the native Red men of the forest, excepting a few colonies. His early life was spent in and around Clarksville, Red River county, where he took himself a wife, who survives him. He was a Master Mason.