Stone family.

Biographical notes:

Moses Stone (d. 1844) was a planter in the Spartanburg District of South Carolina. Stone's wife, Catharine Smith Stone (1798-1875), ran the plantation after her husband's death in 1844. Moses Stone had many brothers, including Pharis, Hillory, Henry, Ambrose, Tilman, Zealy, and John Stone. A cousin of Catharine Smith Stone, Jubilee Smith, practiced medicine and dentistry in Americus, Ga., after the Civil War.

The daughters of Moses and Catharine Stone included Martha Lovina (b. 1824); Regina Minerva (1824-1894), who married a physician, James Wright Tracy (1819-1896); Jane Melissa (b. 1827); Susan Ann (b. 1829); and Catharine Letitia (b. 1832).

From the guide to the Stone Family Papers (#4953), 1804-1876, (Univesrity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)