Genealogy Data Page 522 (Notes Pages)

Genealogy Data Page 522 (Notes Pages)

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Stone, Asher (b. 27 MAY 1808, d. ?)

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Kilows, Dawson, GA

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Stone, Andrew Jackson (b. 10 JUN 1833, d. ?)

Note: Tombstone of Andrew J. Stone in Cameron, TX says he died 28 Jan 1893 in Hempstead, TX. It would suggest that he did not die of natural causes? Is there any reference to him in a Hempstead or nearby newspaper to confirm, or any reference to him at all? His wife was Emmala (Emily) Butler, daughter of Jane Tweedy Perry and William Butler.

HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN MILAM COUNTY, TEXAS CHAPTER V MAYSFIELD

One of the very first schools was organized in 1861, known as the Pebble Grove school, a name given to it by the father of Mrs. Looney, whose name was W. W. Easterwood. He said that there was both a grove and many pebbles there. The cemetery is still known by that name. It is near Maysfield. The school building was of logs as were the benches and table. Mrs. Looney went there with her brother. He was eleven and she was nine. This school was taught by a Reverend Anderson, a Baptist preacher, who was later president of Baylor.

Sometime in the early sixties this Pebble Grove school was taught by Captain A. J. Stone. There were about thirty pupils. Captain Stone taught to fractions. He used the blue-back speller and McGuffey’s readers. Mr. Chester McKinney stated that he attended this school in 1866.

Information leads us to believe there was a private school taught by Miss Josie Wilson at this period ‘and it was held in what was later a saddle shop. It had a dirt floor and little or no equipment.

There was a very famous private school located on Mrs. Elizabeth Moss McCulloch’s place and was taught by a man named C. C. Penuel. Mr. Penuel was a Boston man, a graduate of Harvard. His school was established before 1866. Possible Mr. Penuel taught at two different times. His wife helped him at one time. Mr. W. J. Smilie went there in 1876-1877 and he says that Mr. Penuel never accepted over 25 or 30 pupils. Once every month Mr. Penuel had a spelling match and many of the older people came and were chosen by the children and participated in the match. Some of these men remembered by Mr. Smilie were Herbert (Hub) Williams, Dave Mays, Tyres Sneed, Ed Atkinson, and Dr. Aikin. The spelling matches were great times in the lives of the children. Mr. Penuel seemed to have had a wonderful education and was a very fine teacher. He was very strict and demanded respect from his pupils. He did not take anything but selected pupils and they must pay tuition regularly. Some of the pupils were Dwight Phipps, Cooper Allen, Alsey Allen, W. J. Smilie, J. H. Smilie, Laura Jones, Jess Jones, Will Beard, Nelly Williams, Marcus (Bunk) McCulloch, Jack McCulloch, Henry (Gulf) Beal, Harold (Nick) Beal, Rebecca Stoneham, Emma Stoneham, Lillian Beal (Mrs. L. B. Snead), Jess Stone, Tom Stone, James Woodson, (later head doctor in Woodson Clinic in Temple), and Annie Woodson. there must have been many others but there is no record to be found of them.

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Welcome, Butler Ancestors
Emmala Frances Butler
Emmala Frances Butler was born December 11, 1838 in Eagles Crag, South Carolina to Hon. Dr. William and Jane (nee Perry) Butler. On July 01, 1856, she married Andrew J. Stone in Eagles Crag, South Carolina. They had the following issue:
I. Jesse Stone
II. Thomas Pierce Stone
III. Andrew T. Stone
(Note: The aforementioned were all born in Eagle's Crag, South Carolina.)

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Greenville, South Carolina

Census: Date: 1860
Place: La Grange, Lafayette, AR

Census: Date: 1870
Place: Milam, Texas

Census: Date: 1880
Place: Maysfield, Milam, Texas

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Benson, Harriet Maria (b. ABT 1796, d. ?)

Census: Date: 1850
Place: Greenville, South Carolina

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Kilgore, Benjamin Franklin Doctor (b. 6 AUG 1820, d. 20 FEB 1897)

Note: The following is from "The History of Spartanburg County", by Dr. J. B. O. Landrum, c. 1900
pg 334

Dr. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KILGORE was a son of Josiah Kilgore, whose ancestors came from Ireland; these settled first in Pennsylvania, but subsequently moved south. Dr. Kilgore was born in Greenville County, near the Spartanburg line, August 6th, 1820. He attended the schools of his neighborhood, and afterwards attended the high schools in the districts of both Greenville and Spartanburg.

In 1837 he read medicine with his preceptor, Dr. A. B. Crack of Greenville, and graduated in the South Carolina Medical College, at Charleston, in 1840. He then took a postgraduate course at Lexington, Ky., and began the practice of medicine in 1841 in Kershaw district.

In the fall of 1846 he returned to Greenville district and soon afterwards purchased a valuable farm on the Enoree River, a few miles below Woodruff, to which he moved Feb., 1847, and began to farm as well as to do an extensive practice of medicine.
This place he owned at the time of his death, which occured Feb. 20th,1897. From the time his removal to Spartanburg district, he became closely identified with the interests of the district, serving as commissioner of roads, and was elected twice (1854 and 1858) as a representative from Spartanburg to the State Legislature. In 1860 he was elected a delegate to the convention of South Carolina which declared the ordinance of secession.

At the beginning of the war he enlisted as a private in Co. K, 3d Regiment, S. C. V. shortly after he was appointed assistant surgeon

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of the 13th Regiment, S. C. V. (of which Dr. L. C. Kennedy was surgeon, whose health failing resigned), and in Sept. 23, 1862, was promoted to surgeon of the same regiment, a position which he held until 1865, when he was made a director in charge of a hospital. After his return from the army he did only a limited practice and removed to Woodruff, where, from paralysis he died on the date already referred to, and was buried in the new cemetery near by.

While Dr. Kilgore was located in Kershaw district in 1841, he met Miss Fannie A. Massey of the Waxhaw neighborhood, in Lancaster district, whom he married, and who, with two sons and three daughters, survives him, the names of which are John Belton Kilgore, who married Lora Westmoreland; Samuel M. Kilgore, who married Lilly Hunter; Jane, who married W. W. Simpson; Annie Virginia, who married Professor A. M. Stallworth, and Miss Hattie, unmarried.

Dr. Kilgore was a progressive citizen and an earnest patriot, and was endowed with an exceptionally fine mind, and used his time and talent for any measure he thought was for the progress and advancement of his county and State. It was largely due to his untiring energy and zeal that the Augusta and Spartanburg Railroad was built. At first he met with many discouragements, but he lived to see his cherished hope consummated.

As a farmer he was especially devoted to-sheep raising and had among his extensive flock the finest breeds of Southdowns and Broadtails.
Dr. kilgore was a true patriot, honest in the expression of his opinions and bold in his denunciations of wrong. A devoted husband and kind father, he was unselfish in disposition magnanimous and warm in nature, and true and loyal in his friendships. These excellent traits in his character made a strong impress on the community in which he lived.