Matilda Liza Stone

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• Other-Begin: 10 Feb 1816, Jones Co, Georgia

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Other-Begin:
mentioned in Benoni Hansford's will:
The will of Benoni Hansford of 9 January 1812, Morgan County, Georgia, probated 10 February 1816, Jones County, Georgia, proved the marriage with Elizabeth being mentioned twice. "...To the heirs of my daughter Elizabeth by her present husband Henry D Stone a negro woman named Fan and her issue..." and "...to my beloved wife I give during her widowhood the balance of my negroes and the tract of land whereon I now reside and in case she should marry my will and desire is that she retain during her life a negro woman named Jude and the land to be vested in my son John and the negroes to be equally divided between my children Sally William and heirs of Elizabeth by her husband Henry D Stone Matilda, George the heirs of Polly by her husband Jno. P. Ryan and John..."

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Died:
"Died, at his residence in Calhoun County, on the 24th ult., Col. Henry D. Stone, in the 77th year of his age. Thus has gone another patriot of the Revolutionary War. Col. Stone was a native of Charleston, but for many years a citizen of Georgia, which state he served in various capacities, with honor to himself and benefit to his country. He was, for many years, an active and useful member of the convention which framed her constitution. He also served in her border wars with honor and gallantry after having at an early period of his life borne arms against an invading foe in the Revolutionary War. He has also served in the Legislative Council of Florida, of which body he was for a time president. Col. Stone was related to some of the most distinguished families both in Georgia and South Carolina; but his eulogy is not dependent upon any such adventitious circumstances, for he was emphatically a firm and uncompromising patriot, and an honest and upright man."
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Henry married Elizabeth Hansford in 1808 in Morgan Co, Georgia. Elizabeth was born in 1786 in Orange, Orange Co, Virginia; died on 5 Mar 1826 in Chipola, Jackson Co, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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daughter of Benoni Hansford and Grace Proctor.


Died:
Elizabeth's obituary, written by L. M. Stone for The Florida Intelligencer, Friday, 17 March 1826, follows:

"DIED, at Chipola, in the 40th year of her age, MRS. ELIZA STONE, wife of Col. Henry D. Stone.

"I should not satisfy the mournful claim of surviving friend- ship, if I permitted the grave to enclose the remains of my affectionate, and kind step-mother without recording some testimonial of her virtues.

"It must be left to the social circle, of which she was the charm and the pride, to dwell upon the recollections that gemus which delighted, of those acquirements which instructed, of that grace of manner and form which attracted, and of that sweetness of disposition which endeared them to her. They will speak of her while memory 'holds her seat' within them, for no virtue, nor grace, will be presented to them with without associating the remembrance of her, in whom every virtue, and grace were found; I who make this brief record, speak of her from an experience of her more than motherly kindness.

"The education of Mrs. Stone was superintended by the fondest of parents, who never found their labours unprofitably wasted; they found in her a heart grateful for their cares, and an understanding which knew how to appreciate them; and when she entered into life, the fruits of their attention appeared. As a daughter and as a sister, she was all their affection could wish, and the lavish eulogiums of her friends were the sweet and certain evidence of her worth. Her mother, however, was taken from her at an early age, and she was left with the surviving children and an aged father to struggle 'in a wide world,' without other aid than the kindness of zealous and affectionate friends, of these, however, she was not destitute; for who that knew her was not her friend?

"Her virtues appeared in their brightest lustre when she became a wife, and the care of five motherless children had devolved upon her; she was formed to ornament and to delight the circles of fashion; but the embarrassment of a fond husband with her five children (myself one of them) pointed out another sphere; she left the gay world without reluctance or regret, to shine at home; her fireside was the scene of her cheerfulness, and the chosen few who sought it, love to speak of the value of a woman, whose first care was to record the affections of a husband, and to instruct, educate and cherish his orphans. She had a very fine son, on the second of March inst., and took her aerial flight to the celestial climes of ether, on the 5th day of this instant, she has left nine children, an aged husband, who is the survivor of three wives, to bewail her loss; whose claims upon her surviving relatives and friends are of the highest nature; and will, no doubt, receive from them, that protection and friendly attention which will in some measure, compensate for the loss of an affectionate wife, and a kind and indulgent mother.

"When a woman so well known and so universally beloved, is translated from these vale of tears, eulogium seems almost superfluous, for in the minds of her numerous friends, her memory is too strongly impressed to be easily effaced, and their united testimony of her merit forms a stronger and more durable panegyric, than the most artful continuator of studied expressions can bestow.

"Her remains were respectfully interred at the meeting house near Maj. Montfort, by the side of my brother John H. Stone; who departed this life on the 2d of November last, he has left a wife and one child to bemoan his loss.

?The Editor of the Milledgeville Journal will give the foregoing a place in his columns for the information of Mrs. Stone's relations who live in Georgia."

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