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Name: Willis Stone
Alias:
Place of Birth: Nelson KY
Year of Birth: 1842
Occupation: Laborer
Eyes: Dark Hair: Dark Complexion: Dark
Height in Feet: 5 Inches: 4.25
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Enlistment Date: August 23, 1864
Enlistment Place: Louisville
Enlistment State: KY
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Congressional District: Nelson County, 4th District, KY
Company: C
Regiment(s): 5th USCC
Mustered Where: Louisville, KY
Mustered Out Date: March 16, 1866
Rank at Muster Out: Private
Notes:
Stone was born in Nelson County, Kentucky, about 1842; he was 22 when he enlisted in 1864 in Louisville. He mustered out in Helena, Arkansas in March 1866.
Died in war? No
Military Death Date:
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Military Cause of Death:
Death Date: January 1, 1900
Cause of Death:
Pension Card Link: Pension Card
Pension Application Date: August 15, 1890
Application No.: 896709 Certificate No.: 678585
Alternate First Name: Alternate Last Name:
Widow Pension Card: Pension Card
Widow Application Date: January 14, 1901 Application No.: 733168
Certificate No.: 522298
No other family pension card found
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Pension Notes:
Willis Stone filed for a pension application (invalid) in August 1890, in Colorado. His widow filed in January 1901.
No Freedman’s Bank information found
No Freedmen’s Bureau Documents found
Mother First Name: Mary Mother Maiden Name: Foster
Father First Name: Father Last Name:
Siblings:
Wife #1 First Name: Mina Maiden Name: Green
Wife #2 First Name: Maiden Name:
Wife #3 First Name: Maiden Name:
Children: William Stone 1868
Charles Stone 1869
Joseph Stone 1873
Stacy Stone 1874
Lilly J Stone 1877
Walter H 1881 Stone
Mary Alphia Stone 1886
Jesse G Stone 1889
Family Notes:
Willis Stone had several sons and daughters. His mother Mary Foster resided with him in 1870 and 1880 in Nelson County, Kentucky. In 1900 the family moved to Denver. By 1918 Willis’s son Jesse moved to Los Angeles.
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1870 Census Link: View
1870 Profession: Farm Laborer
1870 Live with/near former enslaver? Yes
1870 Real Estate Value: 600 1870 Personal Estate Value: 225
1870 Ability to Read? Unknown Ability to Write? Cannot write
1870 Census Notes:
Willis Stone and his family appear in the 1870 and 1880 censuses in Nelson County. (Willis also appears as William.) In 1870 the value of his real estate was $600, and his personal estate was valued at $225. His mother was listed in Willis’s 1870 and 1880 households.
1880 Census Link: View
1880 Profession: Farm Hand
1880 Live with/near former enslaver? Unknown
1880 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1880 Census Notes:
1890 Census information not found
1900 Census Link: View
1900 Profession: Laborer
1900 Ability to Read? Can read Ability to Write? Can write
1900 Own/Rent: Rent 1900 Home Free/Mortgage: Unknown 1900 Farm/House: House
1900 Census Notes:
In 1900 the family had moved to Denver, Colorado where Willis and his wife died.
1910 Census Link: View
1910 Profession: Laundress
1910 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1910 Own/Rent: Own 1910 Home Free/Mortgage: Free 1910 Farm/House: House
1910 Census Notes:
In 1910 Willis’s widow Mina was listed as Minna Lamb but in 1920 and 1930 her surname was Stone.
1920 Census Link: View
1920 Profession:
1920 Ability to Read? Can read Ability to Write? Can write
1920 Own/Rent: Own 1920 Home Free/Mortgage: Free 1920 Farm/House: House
1920 Census Notes:
Name: John Stone
Location: Nelson County, Kentucky
Previous Enslaver:
Enslaver Notes:
Two men named John Stone resided in Nelson County, Kentucky. Census links are to the elder John Stone (born in Virginia) who appears in the 1850 and 1860 slave schedules, and corresponding population schedules including 1870 but not 1880. (The 1860 slave schedule for John Stone is on 2 pages.).
1850 Census Link: View
1850 Slave Schedule Link: View
1850 Number of Enslaved: 28
1860 Census Link: View
1860 Real Estate Value: $25,000
1860 Personal Estate Value: $20,000
1860 Slave Schedule Link: View
1860 Number of Enslaved: 26
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Real Estate Value: $27,500 1870 Personal Estate Value: $2,500
1880 Census information not found
Compensation Application not found
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