1827 - 1899 (72 years)
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Name |
Thomas Stone [6, 7] |
Birth |
2 Feb 1827 |
Brockville, Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Upper Canada [8, 9, 10] |
Gender |
Male |
Census |
1851 |
Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada [11] |
Living with his uncle James Burns |
Occupation |
1852 |
Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada [12] |
Owner of the Thomas Stone Dry Goods store |
Census |
1871 [13] |
Male, 44, b. Ontario, Origin Irish, Merchant, Kent district, Chatham Town |
Occupation |
Orford Township, Kent County, Ontario, Canada |
Owner of a country store |
Religion |
1881 |
Chatham, Ontario [14] |
Presbyterian |
FindAGrave URL |
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106189877 |
FindAGrave ID |
106189877 |
FamilySearch ID |
LBXD-MKB |
FamilySearch URL |
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBXD-MKB |
Death |
17 Oct 1899 |
his residence 277 Queen St. Chatham, Ontario [15, 16] |
Burial |
Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Ontario [17] |
Person ID |
I169 |
Main |
Last Modified |
15 Sep 2018 |
Father |
John Stone, b. 6 Jun 1798, County Carlow, Ireland d. 16 Nov 1877, Kent County, Ontario, Canada near Highgate (Age 79 years) |
Mother |
Mary Burns, b. Dec 1806, Ferns, Wexford, Leinster, Ireland d. 26 Feb 1899 (Age ~ 92 years) |
Marriage |
3 May 1826 |
Family ID |
F108 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family 1 |
Jane Shankland McQuarrie, b. 9 Dec 1831, Ireland d. 2 Dec 1855 (Age 23 years) |
Marriage |
Dec 1852 |
Kent County, Ontario, Canada [10] |
Notes |
Married:
- D. McKeough notes: "in his obit Jane McQuarrie, not Shankland" [18]
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Children |
+ | 1. George Edward Stone, b. 27 Jan 1855, Canada d. 28 Dec 1921, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada (Age 66 years) |
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Family ID |
F761 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
16 Oct 2004 |
Family 2 |
Adelaide Spencer, b. 22 Feb 1833 d. 9 Mar 1871 (Age 38 years) |
Marriage |
23 Jun 1857 |
Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada |
Notes |
Married:
- At the residence of the Bride's mother by the Rev. A. McCall, Chatham. [10]
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Children |
| 1. William Spencer Stone, b. 26 Jun 1858 d. 26 Oct 1867 (Age 9 years) |
| 2. Douglas Stone, b. Abt 1860, Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada d. Yes, date unknown |
| 3. Annie Stone, b. Abt 1864, Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada d. Yes, date unknown |
| 4. Mary Elizabeth Stone, b. 14 Aug 1859, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada d. 16 Dec 1860 (Age 1 year) |
| 5. Margaret Stone, b. 11 Oct 1861, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada d. 11 Jan 1958 (Age 96 years) |
| 6. John Stone, b. 26 Feb 1863, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada d. 18 Oct 1875 (Age 12 years) |
+ | 7. Judge Frederick Stone, b. 27 Feb 1865, Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada d. 1940 (Age 74 years) |
+ | 8. Adelaide Stone, b. 29 Jan 1868, Kent, Ontario, Canada d. 1955 (Age 86 years) |
+ | 9. Spencer Stone, "Pen", b. 24 Jul 1869, Chatham, Ontario d. 11 Aug 1939, Water Crest Lane, Cedar Springs, Ontario, Canada (Age 70 years) |
| 10. Elizabeth Stone, b. 25 Feb 1871 d. 21 May 1871 (Age 0 years) |
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Family ID |
F81 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
10 Jul 2023 |
Family 3 |
Rebecca Adam, b. 1825 d. 10 Apr 1902, Chatham, Kent, Ontario (Age 77 years) |
Marriage |
6 Sep 1888 |
Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada [10, 15, 19] |
Notes |
Married:
- At the residence of Wm. Eberts by Rev. A. McCall [10]
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Family ID |
F1107 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
15 Sep 2018 |
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Event Map |
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| Census - Living with his uncle James Burns - 1851 - Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada |
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| Occupation - Owner of the Thomas Stone Dry Goods store - 1852 - Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada |
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| Marriage - Dec 1852 - Kent County, Ontario, Canada |
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| Marriage - 23 Jun 1857 - Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada |
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| Religion - Presbyterian - 1881 - Chatham, Ontario |
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| Marriage - 6 Sep 1888 - Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada |
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| Death - 17 Oct 1899 - his residence 277 Queen St. Chatham, Ontario |
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| Burial - - Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, Ontario |
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Documents |
| "An Interesting Appendix to the Stone Genealogy" Prepared by John R. Bradfield, May 1979. Adelaide Spencer Stone's ancestors back to Philippe de Lannoy. |
| Degge Block article Article appearing in Chatham This Week - September 15, 2010 describes the history of the Chatham, Ontario store at one time owned by Thomas Stone and his son Spencer Stone. By John Rhodes. (Article forwarded to me by Darcy McKeough) |
| John Rhodes 8 Aug 2012 - Article. John Rhodes article in 8 Aug 2012 - Chatham This Week. "Miller recalled that Thomas Stone was a prominent dry goods merchant and could remember when his store was founded in the mid 1850's."
Miller is quoted:'I remember when this business establishment was founded by the late Thomas Stone, father of the present Spencer Stone who is president of the company. For a good many years, my family bought all their dry goods from this store, and the first overcoat, which I ever purchased myself, was bought from Mr. Stone Sr., founder of the store when the latter was a clerk in a store run by his uncle, Mr. Burns, just across from where the post office (southwest corner King and 4th streets) now stands.' |
| George Edward Stone - Ontario Deaths
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| Stone / Hobbs marriage record
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| Stone m. Taylor Marriage record |
| Marriage Record of Thomas Stone to Rebecca Adam McEwen
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Headstones |
| Stone family headstone Adelaide wife of Thomas Stone died March 9 1871 aged 38 years and 17 days. Thomas Stone born February 2 1827 died October 17 1899. Plot: Look for the large granite monument along the road with a huge statue on top. (Moore). This stone is a short distance toward the creek from there. |
| Stone Family monument The large monument is engraved as follows:
Adelaide wife of Thomas Stone died March 9 1871 aged 38 years and 17 days; Thomas Stone born February 2 1827 died October 17 1899; John Stone died Oct 16 1875 aged 12 years 7 months and 20 days; Spencer Stone born July 24 1869 died Aug 11 1939; Jane S wife of Thomas Stone died Dec 2 1855 aged 23 years 11 months and 23 days; Margaret daughter of Thomas and Adelaide born Oct 11 1861 died Jan 11 1958; Mary Elizabeth died Dec 16 1860 aged 1 year 4 months and 2 days; Wm Spencer died Oct 26 1867 aged 9 years and 4 months; Bessie died May 21 1871 aged 2 months and 26 days.
The smaller stones surrounding are engraved at the top as follows:
1) John 2) Bessie? 3) Wm Spencer 4) James Plot: "Ward B", Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham, ON. Chatham-Kent Cemeteries notes "Location - Look for the large granite monument along the road with a huge statue on top. (Moore). This stone is a short distance toward the creek from there." |
Histories |
| "LANNOY" by Margaret Stone (1851-1958).
1 MB pdf file. A typwritten manuscript written cir 1931 that starts with the ancestors of Philippe de Lannoy who came to America on the vessel "Fortune" in 1621, and traces his descendants to our Stone family in Canada. There are also transcriptions of the entries in Thomas Stone's (1799-?) bible from Ireland. |
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Notes |
- The following is an excerpt from "Romantic Kent" by Victor Lauriston 1952. p179-180:
"Thomas Stone, an Orford man of Irish descent, came in 1852 to found a dry goods business outstanding in Kent and a family which brought honor to Chatham. Generous and high-minded, the elder Stone left his impress on the life of the community. After his death in 1899, a son, Spencer, carried on for many years the business which, even after his passing, long retained the family name under other ownership. Another son, the eloquent Frederick Stone, became on of Chatham's foremost lawyers, served in the city council, un-successuflly contested the West Kent legislative seat in 1908, and spend his last days as judge at Sault Ste. Marie. A grandson, Thomas A. Stone, became on of Canada's foremost career diplomats."
The following is from an article in "A cyclopedia of Canadian biography being chiefly men of the time - 1886" (not an obit. - he died in 1899):
Stone, Thomas, Chatham, Ontario, was born on the 2nd day of February, 1827, in the township of Elizabethtown, County of Leeds, Upper Canada. His father, John Stone was a native of the County of Carlow, Ireland, and came to Canada in 1820, a the age of 22. He married Mary Burns, on May 3rd, 1826, and settled on a farm in Elizabethtown, in 1834, when Thomas was seven years old. He removed thence to the township of Esquesing, County of Halton, near the village of Adamsville (now Acton), where our subject graduated at the school of Miss Electa Adams. Here the family resided for six years, after which, in 1840, it went west, settling in the backwoods of the County of Kent, township of Orford. Here John Stone purhcased a bush farm, upon which he wrought and prospered, and died upon the same on November 16th 1877, in the eightieth year of his age. His widow and one of his sons, A. J. Stone, are still living on the old homestead, near Highgate.
Our subject's grandfather, Thomas Stone, and his grandmother, Elizabeth Cooper, were both born in the County Carlow, Ireland, and his great-grandfather, Lawrence Stone, was an Englishman. Thomas Stone, our subject, holds a commission as captain in the Sedentary Militia; he has also held the position of school trustee for the last eight years, and is a pastmaster Mason in Wellington lodge, of which he has been a member for over thirty years. In politics, he is a "moderate"; in religion, a Presbyterian. His parents were both Episcopalians, but soon after their marriage, became Methodists, in which church Thomas Stone was brought up.
Mr. Stone has been married twice, first to Jane McQuarrie, in December 1852. This lady died in December 1855, leaving one son.
He next married Adelaide Spencer, in June 1857, by whom four sons and four daughters were born. She died on the 6th March, 1871.
At the age of twenty years Thomas Stone left his father's home, and proceeeded to Chatham, where he has since resided. Here he was in business as a clerk in a general store with his uncle and George Turnbull. On his uncle leaving the business at the end of two years, Mr. Turnbull and Mr. Stone continued the co-partnership till February 1858. Since that period, Mr. Stone has been in the dry goods business alone, and has prospered therein, and has given to his children the advantages of an education, of which he himself declares he has felt the want. He is upright and honourable in all his dealings, and there is no other man who enjoys a fuller share of public esteem than he.
The following is an excerpt from "A Community on the Thames" by John Rhodes 1987. p. 23 photo (p. 24)
The industrialists were not the only ones to enjoy the new prosperity The King Street merchant was now beginning to come into his own and in particular, the grocer. The town's population was, by this time, nearing 2,500 people who must buy food. There were no supermarkets in those days and the small independent grocery store held sway. At one point, in these early years, there were dozens of these independent grocers. More often than not, their venture was a failure but in some cases fortunes were made. Among the most successful were: Hugh Malcolmson, Eddie Snook, Kenneth Urquhart and John McCorvie (Malcolmson and McCorvie later became mayors of the city).
Other merchants also prospered at this time. The McKeoughs in the hardware business, the Stones in the dry goods business and a multiplicity of other merchants offering everything from shoes to shingles.
These merchants were an industry in themselves in that there were no chain stores and the profit made in the town was almost always to remain in the town. In addition, the King Street merchants were, collectively, the largest employers in the area. With the downtown business district being not much smaller or less compact than it is today, the employment opportunities must have been profuse in comparison to the town's relatively modest size.
Walker Stores was long considered to be one of the two "anchor" stores of downtown Chatham, the other being Eaton's. The store was founded in 1852 when Thomas Stone and his partner, Mr. George Turnbull purchased the dry goods business of James Burns (Mr. Stone's uncle).
The firm of Stone and Turnbull continued until 1858 when Mr. Turnbull retired and the firm was then known as Thomas Stone Dry Goods. The store was first situated on the south side of King Street, two doors east of Fourth Street. An October 17, 1899 issue of the Chatham Evening Banner indicates that the business was later located on the opposite side of King Street.
In the 1890's, a new three-storey building was constructed on the south side of King Street, a few doors east of Fifth Street. In 1898, Spencer Stone joined his father in the enterprise and at this time the name was changed to Thomas Stone and Son. For a while, the store was also known as Appleby, Stone and Appleby, and still later the name was changed to Spencer Stone Limited.
Notes from W.D. McKeough
There are all kinds of references in my grandfathers diary and in letters written to him by his father - to "Uncle Thomas" - never Tom!
Notes from Chatham Daily News 12 Aug 1965:
- 1852 left a country store in Orford and came to Chatham
- First store 128 King Street West, next to Rankin Hotel (now a higher number)
-1880 moved to 58 King Street West
- A Liberal, Presbyterian, Member of Public School Board, a Mason, and a Captain in the Military. [20, 21, 22, 23, 24]
Religion:
- according to the 1881 census
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Sources |
- [S2] John S. Howell, Jr., JSH Feb 13 2003 gedcom.
- [S471] JSH, JSHJr., familysearch.org.
- [S630] Lauriston, Victor, Romantic Kent, (Sheperd Printing
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Pub. 1952. 784p).
The following from "Romantic Kent":
Thomas Stone, an Orford man of Irish descent, came in 1852 to found a dry goods business outstanding in Kent and a family which brought honor to Chatham. Generous and high-minded, the elder one left his impress on the life of the community. After his death 1899, a son, Spencer, carried on for many years the business which even after his passing, long retained the family name.
- [S646] John Lovell (Compiler), Lovell's 1871, (John Lovell, Montreal, 1871.).
- [SAuth] John Spencer Howell, Jr., John Spencer Howell, Jr., (http://www.jhowell.com/ jhowell@jhowell.com).
- [S659] John R. Bradfield, Bradfield, (May 1979 -- http://www.jhowell.com/pics/JRBradfieldDelanoLine.pdf).
- [S629] John Rhodes, Rhodes - A Community on Thames, (published in1987.), p923-924 incl. photo.
- [S622] 1881 Canadian Census, (1881).
Year: 1881
Place: Chatham Town
Film: C-13280
Div: 2
Pg: 41
Entry: 25
Fam: 201
Surname: Stone
Given Name: Thomas
Age: 54
Birthplace: Ontario
Religion: Presbyterian
Occupation: merchant
- [S643] 1871 Canadian Census.
1871 Canadian Census Index
Head of Household
STONE, THOMAS; Sex: Male; Age: 44
Born: 1827 @ Ontario
Position in home: Head of House
Religion: Canada Presbyterian/C. Presb
Ethnic Origin: IRISH - Unknown code
Occupation: MERCHANT - Unknown code
Electoral District Code: 002 Electoral Sub-district Code: G
Enumerator's Division: 1 54
Enumerator's Page Number: 08
Electoral Sub-district Name: Chatham, town
- [S468] W. Darcy McKeough, Darcy McKeough, Letter to JSHJr dated Sep 24, 2004 with Stone Tree draft.
- [S643] 1871 Canadian Census, District: Kent Sub District: Chatam Town p54.
From: http://data4.archives.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s2=stone&s3=thomas&s4=&s5=&s1=&s8=&Sect4=AND&l=20&Sect1=IMAGE&Sect2=THESOFF&Sect5=CEN1PEN&Sect6=HITOFF&d=CEN1&p=1&u=http://www.archives.ca/02/02010803_e.html&r=2&f=G
Sex: Male
Age: 44
Birthplace: ONTARIO
Religion: Canada Presbyterian/C. Presb.
Origin: IRISH
Occupation: MERCHANT
District: KENT ( 002 )
Sub-district: Chatham Town ( G )
Division: 1
Page: 54
Microfilm reel: C-9892
Reference: RG31 — Statistics Canada
- [S629] John Rhodes, Rhodes - A Community on Thames, (published in1987.).
- [S643] 1871 Canadian Census.
STONE , THOMAS
Sex: Male
Age: 44
Birthplace: ONTARIO
Religion: Canada Presbyterian/C. Presb.
Origin: IRISH
Occupation: MERCHANT
District: KENT ( 002 )
Sub-district: Chatham Town ( G )
Division: 1
Page: 54
Microfilm reel: C-9892
Reference: RG31 — Statistics Canada
- [S622] 1881 Canadian Census, (1881).
- [S468] W. Darcy McKeough, Darcy McKeough, Letter to JSHJr dated 11 Apr 2003.
- [S791] Margaret Stone (1851-1958), Maggie Stone's Delano to Stone History, (Aug. 1931 http://www.jhowell.com/pics/LannoyByMargaretStoneLowRes.pdf).
- [S967] OCFA - Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, (Copyright (C), 2000 Ron Demaray.
http://www.islandnet.com/ocfa/about.html), STONE Thomas Maple Leaf, Chatham Kent Chatham KT-.
- [S468] W. Darcy McKeough, Darcy McKeough, 24 Sep 2004 letter and tree to JSHJr.
- [S1711] Ontario Marriages, 1869 - 1927.
Marriage 06 Sep 1888, Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada
Thomas Stone ,Male, 61 b. 1827, Father: John Stone, Mother: Mary Stone
Rebecca Mcewen, Female, age: 62, born: 1826, Father: Robert Adam, Mother: Marion Adam
- [S468] W. Darcy McKeough, Darcy McKeough, Chart notes p 9-5-d1. The biographical information probably written before 1841.
- [S629] John Rhodes, Rhodes - A Community on Thames, (published in1987.), p. 23 - p.24 photo.
- [S781] CDN, (includes columns by Victor Lauriston), 12 Aug 1965 by Lauriston.
- [S630] Lauriston, Victor, Romantic Kent, (Sheperd Printing
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Pub. 1952. 784p), p 179.
- [S1457] Geo. MacLean Rose, Cyclopedia of Canadian biography - 1899, (Rose Publishing Company, Toronto, 1886), P. 687.
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