Isabelle Christine Draper

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1877; letter

Notes:

Residence:
Quote: "Your letter of 8th, Instant, together with an old letter I wrote to Aunt Margaret Stone, now over 54 [1877] years ago, were received in due course of mail. The old letter made me think of old times, when Ridley was a little baby, and Mama and I lived at the Ann Dowell place near your Uncle Stone's place. The Ann Dowell place then belonged to your Grand MaDraper. I was glad to see the old letter once more.

Isabelle married Cicero Constantine "C.C." Stone on 2 Nov 1873 in Putnam Co, Tennessee. Cicero (son of Enoch Herschel Stone, match 7B and Eliza Maxwell) was born on 15 Jun 1850 in Baxter, Putnam Co, Tennessee; died on 12 Sep 1935 in Dexter, Chaves Co, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Minnie married Joseph Alonzo Harris on 14 Jan 1894 in Putnam Co, Tennessee. Joseph was born on 10 Sep 1871 in Baxer, Putnam Co, Tennessee; died after 1940 in Putnam Co, Tennessee. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Abt 1900, Nashville, Davis Co, Tennessee
• Census: 1910, Davidson Co, Tennessee
• Military: Sep 1918, Nashville, Davis Co, Tennessee; draft registration
• Residence: Abt 1919, California
• Census: 1920, Alameda Co, California
• Census: 1930, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co, California
• Other-Begin: 26 Apr 1931; letter

Notes:

REMINISCENCES By Ridley Draper Stone Sr.
Contributed by Carolyn Stone Santa Rosa, CA Upper Cumberland Genealogical Association Volume XXIV, Number Four Winter 1999: pg. 6

These reminiscences were written by Riley Draper Stone Sr. in about 1950. Although he says a picture evoked these memories, no picture was found with the hand-written account. He was born in Putnam County (in "Irby,"he said in another place) on September 7, 1876, the first son, second child, of Cicero Constantine Stone (son of Enoch Herschell Stone and Eliza Maxwell Stone) and Isabelle Christine Draper Stone (daughter of Ridley Draper and Rebecca Kuykendall Draper) all of Putnam County. He moved to Nashville as a young man and attended Jennings' Business College. His hand-written diploma, signed by R. W. Jennings, dated April 29, 1895, states he had shown himself capable of "acquiring a knowledge of Bookkeeping and Commercial Usage" making him valuable in any office store countingroom."
He married Eunice Kathryn Rundle on July 3, 1901. With their two sons, they moved from Nashville to Berkely, California, in 1919. He died in Oakland, California, on November 3, 1953.

"This picture reminds me of my life as a little boy living in a little town named Bloomington in Tennessee. About a mile or two (away) was my father's farm on which grew many sugar maples, especially along the creek which was called Martin's Creek. These sugar maple trees were tapped on one side about three feet from the ground by someone. What we mean by tapped is that a notch was cut so as to make a cup or mouth shape with upper lip missing. These cups in the trees would fill with sweet sap oozing out of the tree. A little trough was attached in the tapped part so as to project out far enough so that the juice would trickle into a bucket either hung by a hook or nail or sitting on the ground. We would take the juice and cook into maple syrup or cook it more and make and mould it a cake of maple sugar in the shape of a muffin. I was just a boy, and my father and I would go to the farm, sometime with a horse team and wagon and sometimes with a mule team and wagon and sometimes with an ox team and wagon. It remember that the oxen were named Buck and Ball, and one of the oxen was a muley - - that is he never had any horns; and I think that the other one had his horns sawed off. "One day my father and I were going to the farm with the oxen hitched to the wagon by what we call a yoke; the bows, the part that goes around their necks, was made of hickory wood; and when we had gone to the top of the hill called Stair hill that leaps to the valley, I was in the wagon and I said "Wa!, Buck and Ball,"and they did not mind me. They started to run down that steep hill. My father also said "Wa! Too, but these oxen were stubborn logging oxen that had been treated badly and had been beaten, so I guess that they were afraid of another beating and they kept running. I crawled to the back of the wagon and fell out on purpose. I was afraid that the wagon would go over a precipice or ravine that was on one side of the Stair Hill. We went running down the hill behind the oxen and wagon and when they got to the bottom of the hill they stopped and we caught up with them and continued to our destination. "My father had a hillside farm and it was very rich and productive. We raised corn, oats, wheat, hay, pumpkins, sugar cane etc. The pumpkins would grow so large on the hillside that sometimes they would roll down the hill and knock the fence down. When the sugar cane got ripe we would cut the sugar cane and strip off the blades so as to leave just the stalk and we would feed these stalks through the cane mill (grinder) and squeeze out the juice and cook it in a vat with several compartments, and make some awfully good molasses, and yum yum how good the molasses was with hot biscuits and butter. I do not know which was best, the cane molasses or the maple syrup. Sometimes I would drink some of the maple syrup and sometimes I would chew some of the sugar cane after cutting off the hard stalk. Some of my little boy friends would play and wrestle on the pile of sugar cane pulp after it had gone through the cane mill (grinder). "One day when father and I were going to the farm with the oxen and wagon, we hitched a large brush (a small tree, or top of a tree) to the back of the wagon and it was dragging on the ground; we were taking it to the farm to brush in some hay seed; and father was walking behind the wagon and he stepped on the end of the tree and it jerked father's feet from under him and he fell on his back and shoulder. "One day father and I were cleaning some stumps off of some new ground and there was one stump that had rotten roots; and father got on the hillside above the stump and pushed hard with all his might; the stump gave way and father turned a complete somersault. I laughed and laughed and father got peeved because I laughed. It think on that same day my brother Garnet was with us and he pulled up an Indian turnip, and I told him to taste it. He tasted it and it was so hot naturally that Garnet jumped up and down, almost crying. Garnet was about two years younger that I. Perhaps he was about 10 years old and I was 12. I felt mean and ashamed of myself for asking him to taste it. "A good advice is, never do anything to cause anyone pain or sorrow."

The brother Garnet referred to in the narrative was Enoch Garnet Stone, who left Putnam County with his parents and all the children except Ridley Draper for New Mexico in about 1905. Garnet was born March 25, 1880, died November 17, 1967, so he was actually closer to four years younger than Ridley Draper rather than two recalled here.

Assuming Ridley's guess of his own age as 12, the period he was remembering was about 1888.

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Census:
Ridley D Stone 32 bookkeeper, lumber
Eunice Stone 32 married 9 yrs.
Ridley D Stone 7
Kitty S Rundle 67 mother-in-law widowed Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee


Military:
4305 Nevada Ave, Nash. Dav. Tenn. (Nashville, Davis Co, TN)
age 42, born Sep 7 1871
bookkeeper, Cohen & Safe (?)
Nashville, Davis Co, Tennessee
129 5th Ave So.
nearest relative Eunice Katherine Stone, wife
medium height & build, brown, dark brown eyes
Sep 13, 1918


Census:
1920 Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA - occupation: bookeeper, lumber company

Census:
Ridley D Stone 53 1877 Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee accountant general
Eunice K Stone 53 1877 Pennsylvania Virginia Alabama saleslady real estate
Sterling Stone 15 1915 Pennsylvania Tennessee Pennsylvania


Other-Begin:
mentioned in letter written Apr 26 1931 from Cicero to his son Enoch Garet. Enoch quoted the letter to Alene, cousin, in a letter dated Jan 3 1963.
Quote: "Your letter of 8th, Instant, together with an
old letter I wrote to Aunt Margaret Stone, now over
54 [1877] years ago, were received in due course of mail.
The old letter made me think of old times, when
Ridley was a little baby,..."

Also in another letter Enoch Garet writes to Arlene on March 11, 1963, he states, " He (Uncle Moyers, i.e. [Oliver Myers/Moyers Stone] is the one who lived in Nashville,and Ridley Stone [Ridley Stone] was my brother who lived there for many years until he moved to California.
(see attached)

Died:
Name: Ridley Draper Stone
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 7 Sep 1876
Birth Place: Tennessee
Death Date: 3 Nov 1953
Death Place: Alameda
Mother's Maiden Name: Draper
Father's Surname: Stone

Ridley married Eunice Kathryn Rundle on 3 Jul 1901 in Tennessee. Eunice was born on 27 Aug 1876 in Tennessee; died after 1914. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: Between 1963 and 1965, Yukon, Oklahoma; 3 letters to Alene

Notes:

The following letters were published on Rootsweb
Family Tree Floyd, fweatherbee@gmail.com....

residence when wrote the letters Yukon Oklahoma
dates: Jan 3, 1963, Mar 11, 1963 and Sep 18, 1965

letters written to Alene, a first cousin.
(assuming by process of elimination that she was dau of Daisy Stone)

In 1963 and 1965, a grandson of Enoch H. Stone, Enoch Garnet Stone(1880-1967), and son of Cicero Constantine Stone, wrote three letters to a relative (cousin) named Alene and provided a fair amount of information on the Stone and Maxwell families. The first letter was written from Yukon, Oklahoma, as were the next two, and it was dated January 3, 1963.

(1963, Jan 3)
Dear Alene & Family:

I was so glad to get your letter yesterday. It seems outrageous that I should have first Cousins whom I never met. However, it seems such is life with some unfortunate mortals. Well, I am glad that I am able to give you definite information on [the] date of our Grandma, Eliza Stone's death. Now, I am going to quote quite a bit from my father's letter to me dated

April 26, 1931 from Dexter, New Mexico,
Quote: "Your letter of 8th, Instant, together with an
old letter I wrote to Aunt Margaret Stone, now over
54 years ago, were received in due course of mail.
The old letter made me think of old times, when
Ridley was a little baby, and Mama and I lived at the
Ann Dowell place near your Uncle Stone's place. The
Ann Dowell place then belonged to your Grand Ma
Draper. I was glad to see the old letter once more.
Glad that the Good Lord had let me live over 54 years
after writing it, and I sure thank Him for my long
life, as I will be 81 years old next June 15th, if I
live to see that day come. As I have butted up
against a number of sad things since February the
28th, 1877. My Poor father, Sister Vick, Aunt
Margaret & Uncle Elihue (Elihu--FWW),Aunt Phama, Aunt
Elizabeth, all my poor Mother's Sisters, and all
her brothers except two, my Grand Pa, Grand Ma
Maxwell, Poor Little Ruby(Authur's daughter), some of
my Cousins, Cate (Moyer's daughter), some of my good
friends and School Mates, have all crossed that "Old
River Jordan" since 1877. My Poor Mother died on
October 2nd, 1871, and is buried on a high hill
overlooking Steelville, Crawford County, Missouri. My
brother G.D. Stone died in 1873 in July, think 10th,
and is buried in Grand Pa Maxwell's old family grave
yard about 3 miles south and a little east of Baxter,
Tenn. My Father, and Sister Vick, poor souls, died
at Quebeck (White County, Tennessee--FWW)."

That was a long quotation and rather sad. Now, as to Grand Ma Eliza Stone, I cannot be sure she had a sister Harriett (she did not--FWW). I knew personally three of Grand Ma Eliza (Maxwell) Stone's brothers Grandfield (Granville--FWW), Byrd(Bird--FWW), and Woodfork (all sons of Amos Maxwell and Mary "Polly" Patton--FWW). Uncle Woodfork and his family lived about three miles from Bloomington where we resided, and, therefore, we visited often. I never knew any of her sisters, nor do I know their names. I have had a faint idea that there was a Harriett. However, Bonnie (Daisy's daughter) wrote me about it, and I answered I thought there was. Later she wrote me that she had investigated and found out that she was not Grand Ma's sister. Should you find out definitely, when you write again please tell me if she is the same. The names of the three brothers mentioned may help you decide.

Now, as to Grand Pa Stone, he was in the Union Army and fought in the Civil War, and my father said he was a captain (2nd Lieutenant--FWW). I have an old picture of him and Grand Ma (Eliza), taken when they were young, and he is dressed in a Captain's Uniform (?--FWW). His brother Uncle Elihu was with Sherman on his march to the sea. Well, like all soldiers, I guess he had to do what he was told.

(Two unimportant paragraphs were omitted--FWW).

I have wondered if GrandPa Stone had a brother named Alfred. Quoting from an old letter to his brother Elihue dated
April 9, 1882 Grand Pa wrote,
Quote: "I haverecently learned that John Stone
(Brother Alfred's son) was dead." Ithought he might
have meant Brother in the Church or something of
the kind. Now, that, you know only as well as I. My
record which is very meager did not have an Alfred
in it. It as I have it is that Grand Pa's father
was "Tom" Stone and that he married a Williams
(ElizabethWilliams--FWW). I just cannot remember the
name of Tom's father andmother, which I think I used
to know. Tradition has it that they descended from
W.M. Stone (William Stone--FWW) 1603-1660
Proprietary Governor of Maryland appointed by Lord
Baltimore. As to its being a fact you will know just
as well as I.
(The remainder of Garnet's letter did not pertain to my direct or collateral line ancestry and was omitted--FWW).



The second letter was dated March 11, 1963.

Dear Alene & Family:

Have neglected writing much longer than I had intended. However, I had an old picture of our grandfather Stone, and his first wife, Eliza Maxwell Stone, our grandmother, and she is the one that died out West and was buried at Steelville, Crawford County, Missouri, while on their way from Kansas back to Tennessee. She certainly did marry a Union sympathizer, as the writing on the back of the enclosed picture will show.

To allay all doubt as to Enoch Herschel Stone being your grandfather, I will quote from an old letter I have here from him written to Elihue Stone, his brother, while he Elihue lived in Kansas,

(dated Apr 9, 1882 from White Co, Tenn)
Quote: "Cicero still lives at Bloomington and Vick
lives with him. Newton is there going to school.
Herschel is still living at his Uncle Geo.
Anderson's. Aut is now at home. Moyers lives close
to me and farming. Cleopatrae & Omega, Euclid & Mary
are all at home growing finely. Minerva has only had
two children. Mary is the youngest will be 7 years
old the last day of July."

This old letter was headed White Co. Tenn. and dated
April 9, 1882.

Now quoting a little further from the same old letter,
Quote: "I suppose Phama, wrote you about the death
of Nelly Moyers, she died last Januaryat her Uncle
Geo. Anderson's with consumption. John her brother
came to see her while she was sick, and I think she
died the next day after he left."

I quote the above to show you that Uncle Moyers was named for Nelly's father, who I am quite sure married Elizabeth, who was grandfather's sister, i.e., I know he had a sister, Elizabeth, and am quite sure she married Mr. Moyers. He is the one who lived in Nashville,and Ridley Stone was my brother who lived there for many years until he moved to California.

(Five unimportant sentences were omitted--FWW).
(One unimportant sentence was omitted--FWW).

Grandfather's sisters were Phama, Elizabeth, and Elvira. I believe it is Elvira instead of Elvina. Any way it was so handed down to me.

(There was a bit more and then Garnet signed off--FWW).



The third letter was dated September 18, 1965.

Dear Alene & Folk:

(One unimportant paragraph was omitted--FWW).

Have tried to read your letter and the enclosure carefully, and to put together some facts pertaining thereto in answer. Though, I must confess my knowledge on Stone family genealogy is very brief or limited.

Quoting from a letter from my father to me dated April 26, 1931.
Quote: "I will be 81 years old next June 15th, if I
live that long."

So, you will see he was born June 15, 1850. My father was the oldest child of the family, and as you know, or I think I had told you, Grandmother Eliza(Maxwell) Stone died on October 2, 1871, at Steelville, Crawford County, Mo. while on the way back to Tennessee. She should have been born close to or about the time that Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth Maxwell* (see footnote) of Nashville--FWW) to whom you refer to was. However, I just cannot believe that they were one and the same person.

Of Grandma's three brothers that I knew, I think Granville, (we called him Uncle Gran), I believe that was his name, however, it could have been Granfield, or Grandfield. I feel quite sure he was the oldest, then Uncle Byrd, and the youngest Uncle Woodfork, whom I think was youngest of the three. Now, Pa who was born in 1850 must have been 20 to 30 years younger then Uncle Woodfork, who lived for years about 3 1/2 miles from us, and he and his family visited us often, and we them. I did not know Uncle Woodfork's age, but from his and Pa's looks I would guess there were no less, perhaps, than 30 years. However, it might not have been more then 20. Uncle Woodfork, perhaps was not well educated, but, he was a very, very brilliant and witty man, and was the center of attraction in any crowd. He must have been born between 1820 and 1830. And if there were any half brothers and second wife (?--FWW).

(Garnet, at this point, quotes again from one of Enoch's old letters,which was omitted--FWW).

Now, there were several Maxwell families living in and around Baxter, all related. And I have no doubt that they were related in various degrees to Harriette V. Maxwell of Maxwell House fame. Although my father, no doubt, has been at the Maxwell House many and various times, I have never heard him claim any relationship whatever to them.

(One unimportant paragraph and the remainder of the letter was omitted but Garnet did go on to write one more important sentence--FWW).

Again, I never heard my father mention a Jesse as brother or half brother.

* (footnote) There was, in fact, some confusion over the relationship of Eliza Maxwell Stone. It was believed, based upon what must have been nothing more than wishful thinking, that she was the sister of Harriet Virginia Maxwell, of the Maxwell House Hotel fame in Nashville. But she was not. I(FWW) discovered several years ago that Harriet's sister, or Mary Elizabeth Maxwell, not only lived to a ripe old age but also died an old maid, and that both women were, in fact, the daughters of one Jesse Maxwell, Jr., and Martha Claiborne.

(source: Rootsweb Family Tree Floyd, fweatherbee@gmail.com)
_____________
Marriage Sources:
Title: Upper Cumberland Researcher
Author: Upper Cumberland Genealogical Association, Inc.
Publication: Cookeville, Tennessee
Note: good
Repository:
Media: Magazine
Page: p.24
Text: Vol. XVII, No. 4, Ridley Draper Stone, Sr. Reminiscences, by Carolyn Stone
(by Deborah Watson Stubbes debstubbs@hotmail.com - rootsweb)
________

Census 1880 District 6, Putnam Co, TN (Bloomington Springs)
Census 1930 Frisco, Canadian Co, OK, farmer,

Enoch married Maude Lee Burkhead on 23 Aug 1908 in Piedmont, Canadian Co, Oklahoma. Maude was born on 2 Jul 1888 in Valley View, Cooke Co, Texas; died in Jul 1970 in Edmond, Oklahoma Co, Oklahoma; was buried in Jul 1970 in Piedmont, Canadian Co, Oklahoma. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Arthur married Annie May Thomas on 28 Sep 1902 in Putnam Co, Tennessee. Annie was born on 12 Sep 1884 in Columbus, Franklin Co, Ohio; died in 26 1977 in Dexter, Chaves Co, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married William Elder Benns on 7 Jun 1907 in Wetumka, Hughes Co, Oklahoma. William was born on 14 Feb 1884 in Hardy Co, Texas; died on 4 Jul 1953 in Yuma Co, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alfred married Ora Walters in 1909 in Dexter, Chaves Co, New Mexico. Ora was born on 20 Mar 1892 in Roswell, Chaves Co, New Mexico; died on 15 Jun 1973 in Dexter, Chaves Co, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

According to their daughter, Pansy Ethel Stone Kuykendall, her parents owned this hotel most of their lives and sold it when they moved from Tennessee to Dexter, New Mexico in 1905. Excerpt from "As We Remembered It by Dexter Old Timers (Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 74-29455). "The Stone & Kuykendall Families" by Pansy Stone Kuykendall.
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Pansy married Martin Lafayette "Fate" Kuykendall, Sr. on 18 Dec 1904 in Putnam Co, Tennessee. Martin (son of William Jahew C. Kuykendall and Susan Caroline Mathis) was born on 6 Mar 1885 in Cookville, Putnam Co, Tennessee; died on 29 Mar 1969 in Dexter, Chaves Co, New Mexico. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Nettie Viola Hall on 21 May 1927. Nettie was born on 7 Jun 1909 in Weatherford, Parker Co, Texas; died on 30 Jan 2005 in Lubbock, Lubbock Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 3 Jan 1963; letter

Notes:

Other-Begin:
mentioned in letter written in 1963 by Enoch Stone to his cousin Arlene, that he had had a couple of exchanges of letters with Bonny previously.
"However, Bonnie (Daisy's daughter) wrote me about it, and I answered I thought there was. Later she wrote me that she had investigated and foundout that she was not Grand Ma's sister."
(see attached)

Notes:

Census: 1920 Berkeley, Alameda County, California
Census: 1930 Piedmont, Alameda County, California
Occupation: Attorney

Ridley married Mrs Frances Ellen Crane on 23 Jun 1929 in Alameda Co, California. Frances was born about 1902 in California; died after 1930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Census: 1920 Berkeley, Alameda County, California
Census: 1930 Green Meadows, Los Angeles County, California

Sterling married Margaret E. Anderson on 27 Apr 1941 in Los Angeles Co, California. Margaret was born about 1914; died after 1960 in California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Census: 1930 Frisco, Canadian County, Oklahoma
(familysearch.org)

Cecil married Mabel Amanda Thomason on 31 May 1934 in Piedmont, Canadian Co, Oklahoma. Mabel was born on 29 May 1892; died in Apr 1973. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He did live in Choctaw, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
(familysearch.org)

Died:
Enoch STONE
Birth Date: 4 Aug 1912
Death Date: Mar 1979
Social Security Number: 442-66-8336
State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: Oklahoma

Death Residence Localities
ZIP Code: 73020
Localities: Choctaw, Oklahoma Co, OK

also found at familysearch.org

Other Events and Attributes:

• Other-Begin: 26 Apr 1931; letter

Notes:

Other-Begin:
referenced in letter by Cicero to his son Enoch in a letter dated April 26 1931; and then quoted in a letter from Enoch to his cousin Alene written on 3 Jan 1963.
Cicero remembering those who had died since last letter of 1877 listed, "... Poor Little Ruby..."
(see attached)

Warren married Martha Sarah Tomlinson about 1945. Martha was born on 25 Nov 1924 in Keyrene, Maricopa Co, Arizona; died on 11 Oct 2001 in Tucson, Pima Co, Arizona. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ella married Jack Arthur Bowman on 30 Nov 1946 in Odessa, Ector Co, Texas. Jack was born on 8 Aug 1925 in Ranger, Eastland Co, Texas; died on 17 Dec 1970 in Midland, Midland Co, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]