The Stone family history began in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, on a
     farm located near Everett and Bedford, with Stone ancestors traced
     througout the Revolutionary War period.
       Daniel F. Stone, reared in his parental home in Pennsylvania, received
     a common school education and on Christmas Day, 1859, married Catherine
     Virginia Shoemaker, from a nearby Pennsylvania family. They began their
     married life on a farm in Bedford County and lived there until afterh the
     birth of three of their children. They then moved to Illinois and resided
     there until theyear of 1879. For the next fifteen years Daniel and Catherine
     lived and farmed in that area where the other members of the family were
     born: Daniel, 1867; Frederick, 1870; Franklin, 1872; Howard, 1874 and
     Maude, 1877.
       In 1879, Daniel and Catherine and their family moved to Kansas and
     located on a farm 7 miles east of Lyons, near where Daniel's younger 
     brother, Solomen, had homesteaded in 1873. Harry, the eldest, left the
     parental home to strike a claim in the Osage Indian District, in Barber
     County; later marrying Orpha E. English, a young school teacher from
     Lousisiana, Missouri. Laura married Clark Conkling, Lyons, Kansas, who
     established the "Lyons Republican" and remained its owner and editor for
     many years. Florence taught school and clerked in the store until her
     marriage to Jim Hall, after which they built a farm home just west of
     Medicine Lodge. Fred, Frank, Dan and Howard raised many eyebrows in those
     days with pranks promoted by Those Stone Boys. One of the fun things was
     to ride horseback to revival meetings, which were held out of doors, some-
     times under tents; after the meeting the boys would ride home, standing
     on the backs of their horses, preaching the same sermon they had just
     heard with loud voices and many gestures.
       Fred Stone farmed in Barber County and was married to Goldia Murphey of
     Medicine Lodge, then moved to Oklahoma following the Cherokee Strip.
       Dan, who was unmarried, lvoed to bulid beautiful houses and own fine
     cars.
       Farnk, on his land, would pass the North Star Country School where his
     future wife taught, Elizabeth Urton.
       Howard married Ethel Gibson, who came from Missouri when 16 years of 
     age; owned and operated a farm i the Sharon Valley.
       In 1908, Maude married Edwin Adams, a native of Cornwall, England, and
     they made their home with Catherine, Daniel's wife, until her death.
       One of the greatest customs kept by Maude and her mother was the yearly
     Stone Thanksgiving feast. Today, children, grandchildren and great grand-
     children are reminiscent about the food and fun at Grandma's house on
     Thanksgiving Day.
       Catherine died in 1921 and both she and Daniel are buried in the Highland
     Cemetery in Medicine Lodge, Kansas.
         
                
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas, pg. 440 
     Submitted by: Granddaughter, Catherine Stone Newsom