When Maro Farwell Stone was born on 13 December 1837, in Keene, Coshocton, Ohio, United States, his father, Benjamin Butler Stone, was 25 and his mother, Laura Bassett, was 22. He married Mary Augusta Mix on 13 May 1861, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Ohio, Virginia, United States in 1860. He died on 30 April 1877, in Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Cambridge City Cemetery, Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, United States.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
English: from Middle English ston(e) ‘stone, rock’ (Old English stān). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on stony ground, by a notable outcrop of rock, or by a stone boundary-marker or monument, or habitational, from a place called Stone, such as those in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire.
Irish (Kilkenny): adopted for Irish Ó Clochartaigh (see Clougherty ) and/or Ó Clochasaigh (see Clohessy ), and possibly several other names containing or thought to contain the element cloch ‘stone’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various surnames in other languages, meaning ‘stone’, including Jewish Stein , Norwegian Steine, French Lapierre .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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