When William Johnston Stone was born on 26 June 1841, in Lyon, Kentucky, United States, his father, Leasil Stone, was 34 and his mother, Nancy Killen, was 41. He married Cornelia Woodard on 29 October 1867, in Cynthiana, Harrison, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Eddyville, Lyon, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Kuttawa, Lyon, Kentucky, United States in 1910. He died on 4 March 1923, in Frankfort, Franklin, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Kentucky, United States.
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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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