Elizabeth Stone

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Dist. 14, Marion, Alabama
• Census: 1866, Twp. 9 Range 15W, Marion Co., Alabama
• Census: 1870, Western District, Marion, Alabama; Pikeville P.O.
• Census: 1880, Beat 3, Marion, Alabama; Enumeration District 237
• Occupation: 1870, Western District, Marion, Alabama; Keeping house
• Occupation: 1880, Beat 3, Marion, Alabama; Keeping house
• Residence: 1850, Dist. 14, Marion, Alabama; With husband Samuel M Reid and seven children
• Residence: 1866, Twp. 9 Range 15W, Marion Co., Alabama; With a boy and girl age 10 to 19
• Residence: 1870, Western District, Marion, Alabama; With five children and grandchildren
• Residence: 1880, Beat 3, Marion, Alabama; With daughter Mary F, two grandchildren and brother Burzela Stone.

Notes:

Not found in available online Marion Co., AL probate records

Buried:
Shottsville Cemetery

Elizabeth married Samuel M Reid 26 Sep 1829, Perry Co., Alabama. Samuel was born 1809, South Carolina; died 1859, Shottsville, Marion, Alabama; was buried Shottsville, Marion, Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married:
Officiated by Joshua West, Minister of the Gospel

Other Events:

• Census: 1810, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina
• Census: 1830, Perry Co., Alabama
• Census: 1850, Dist. 14, Marion, Alabama
• Census: 1860, Western Dist., Marion, Alabama; Pikeville P.O.
• Occupation: 1850, Dist. 14, Marion, Alabama; Farmer
• Occupation: 1860, Western Dist., Marion, Alabama; Farmer
• Residence: 1810, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina; With three boys and two girls under age 10 and a woman aged 26 to 44
• Residence: 1830, Perry Co., Alabama; With a boy and two girls aged 5 thru 9, a boy and two girls aged 10 thru 14, two girls aged 15 thru 19, three men and a woman aged 20 thru 29 and a woman aged 40 thru 49
• Residence: 1850, Dist. 14, Marion, Alabama; With a daughter, a son and two grandchildren
• Residence: 1860, Western Dist., Marion, Alabama; With a daughter
• Residence: 1867, Kennedy's Tan Yard Precinct, Marion, Alabama; Election district 32

Notes:

Probate records of Marion Co., Alabama were destroyed and are not available for the time period of his death (9 Oct 2017)

Buried:
Shottsville Cemetery

John married Annie S Lyle 1804, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina. Annie (daughter of Maher Shallal Hashbaz Lyle and Elizabeth Gibson) was born 12 Dec 1782, Virginia; died 1846, Marion Co., Alabama; was buried Shottsville, Marion, Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Daughter of Mahershallal Hashbaz Lyle (really), a Revolutionary War veteran from Ireland.

Buried:
Shottsville Cemetery

Notes:

Annie Maye Stone Robinson, wrote this story in her "History of the Stones":

John Stone was born in 1782 in Virginia and married Annie Lyle in 1804. Over the years they had 13 children and became pioneers from Virginia to South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. John and Annie first settled on a farm near Spartanburg, South Carolina. In addition to being a farmer, John became a hat maker and pioneer. In the fall of 1814, he enlisted six of his neighbors to join the army to help bring to a conclusion the War of 1812. They secured the best horses and flintlock rifles available in the community and with a supply of gun powder, bullets, and clothing started a journey to New Orleans to join General Andrew Jackson's army. John Stone was twenty-nine years of age at the time and left a wife and seven children to join the army.

This journey carried the party of volunteers through Northern Georgia (then the Cherokee Nation), into Mississippi Territory (through many other Indian tribes). After weeks of travel through various unsettled areas during the winter of 1815 and before reaching New Orleans, the party met members of General Jackson's victorious battle of New Orleans returning to their homes in Tennessee with news of defeat of the British. The return trip to South Carolina in the spring of 1815 by a different route carried the volunteer party through other sections of the unsettled lands of what is now Mississippi, Alabama, and northern Georgia.

John Stone reached his family and home in Spartanburg with a vivid impression of the rich lands, forest of giant trees, and numerous broad streams he had traveled through. He and his neighbors soon sold their farms in South Carolina and prepared to move southwestward. John and his family first settled in northern Georgia where new land was cleared and a farm was improved, but after a few years upon hearing that Alabama had been made a State, he sold this farm and with his family and friends started westward. They next settled in St. Clair County, Alabama. Another farm was cleared and a homestead established. After only a few years of farming on the hills of St. Clair County, the pioneer spirit and the desire for economic improvement prompted another venture. The St. Clair homestead was sold and with his family and friends, John Stone moved to the low lands of the Cahaba River in Bibb and Perry County, Alabama. Family stories have been repeated over the years of the entire family cutting away the cane break and planting corn without cultivation of any kind and producing thirty bushels of corn per acre. Fish and wild game were available in abundant quantities.

Following a several overflows of the Cahaba River and the appearance of illness from typhoid and malarial fevers, another move was planned. John Stone heard of a new treaty between the U.S. government and the Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians on Dancing Rabbit Creek in Mississippi whereby a large tract of land in Alabama west of Gaine?s Trace was open to settlement. With their family and relatives, John and Annie Stone left the low lands of Bibb and Perry County for Northwest Marion County, Alabama. In the fall of 1936, they reached a place on Papaw Creek, now Bull Mountain Creek, in Northwest Marion County. Here they found a few white settlers, many of them known as squatters, who had perhaps moved in on the Indians before the treaty was made. John Stone purchased the squatters right from Henry Lockridge and also cleared additional land rights with the Government Land Agents. On October 6, 1836, they were among the first buyers of Chickasaw Indian land in west Marion County, Alabama. Their first 160 acres being Southwest fourth (SE1/4), Section 20, Township 9, Range 15, west Huntsville Meridian, the present site of Shottsville, Marion County, Alabama. Lockridge had built a log cabin and deadened timber on six acres of the land. This was John Stone?s last pioneer move.

With his sons, son-in-laws, other relatives, and friends, John Stone bought squatters rights or entered into government land adjoining his tract. He and members of his family in addition to clearing land, building houses and roads, operated a blacksmith shop, shoemaking shop, and hat makers shop.

A church was built nearby and named New Bethel, but the community soon took on the name of Stonetown and carried that name for other thirty years before it was changed to Shottsville for the Post Office that was established by that name.

Annie Lyle Stone was a short, energetic woman and a great talker. She was widely and affectionately known the in the frontier communities where she lived as a midwife, practical nurse, and home remedy pioneer doctor. She made syrups, liniments, poultices, and plasters from herbs, barks, and other native ingredients available.

Enthusiastically joining her husband and neighbors in all of their westward pioneer moves and adventures, Annie Lyle Stone made it her responsibility to see that the covered wagon was properly stocked with clothing, herbs for medicine, powder and bullets for the flintstocks to insure food from wild game during periods of hardships and disappointments. Seed for growing the next year?s crops on the new farm was an important part of the covered wagon cargo. The cows, sheep, and dogs were cared for by the women while the men were hunting game or clearing the route for travel. Annie, her daughters, and other women of the community took the seed from the cotton, the burrows from the wool, spun the thread, wove the fabric, and made clothing for all members of their families. They also knitted the socks, stockings, gloves, shawls, caps and jackets for all members of their families.

Within their first ten years at Stonetown, Marion County, Alabama, all of Annie and John's thirteen children had married and were rearing their own families in the community. In 1846, at the age of sixty, Annie died leaving her husband, thirteen children, their spouses, numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Annie Lyle Stone was one of the first pioneers to be buried on the hill overlooking her last homestead in what is now Shottsville Cemetery. John Stone died in 1869 and was buried next to Annie in the Shottsville Cemetery.

Other Events:

• Census: 1790, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina
• Census: 1800, Spartanburg Dist., South Carolina
• Census: 1810, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina
• Probate: 22 Dec 1817, Spartanburg Dist., South Carolina; Estate inventory filed by Ambrose Stone, administrator, taken by John Harmon, Samuel Stone, Aron Stone (sic.), Zealy Stone. Valued at $448.00
• Residence: 1790, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina; With five white boys under 16, four white men over 16, two white females and five slaves
• Residence: 1800, Spartanburg Dist., South Carolina; With five boys under age 10, three boys age 10 to 15, two men and a woman age 16 to 25, a man age 26 to 44 and a woman over age 45
• Residence: 1810, Spartanburg Co., South Carolina; With a boy and a girl under age 10, three boys age 10 to 15, five men age 16 to 25 and a woman age 26 to 44

Notes:

Estate papers of Spartanburg Co., South Carolina are mostly not available online (11 Oct 2017)

Died:
Son Ambrose Stone was granted a citation to administer the John Stone estate on 26 Nov 1817

John married Mary Abt 1775, Hanover Co., Virginia. Mary was born 1757, Virginia; died 1851; was buried Shottsville, Marion, Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Dist. 14, Marion, Alabama
• Residence: 1850, Dist. 14, Marion, Alabama; With the Jesse and Jane Lindsey family

Notes:

Buried:
Shottsville Cemetery

Notes:

Ambrose Stone, so far, is the only proven child to this family. We await digitization of estate files of Spartanburg Co., South Carolina. (11 Oct 2017)

James Tilman Stone might actually have been two people; a James Stone is probated in Monroe Co., Mississippi in 1857, while a Tilman Stone is probated in Monroe Co., Mississippi in 1849. (11 Oct 2017)

Other Events:

• Census: 1800, Union Dist., South Carolina
• Residence: 1800, Union Dist., South Carolina; With a boy under age 10, a boy age 10 to 15, two men and a woman age 16 to 25, a woman age 26 to 44, and a woman over age 45

Notes:

Available online probate records for Jackson Co., Georgia stop weeks before his death (8 Jan 2014)

In the Bible records for Maher he is called a "Scotchman by birth" but this is assumed to refer to his Scoth ancestry rather than his place of birth for Bible records also say he was born in Ireland. The unusual name, Mahershalalhashbaz, is found in the Old Testament, Book of Isaiah, "Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Maher-shalal-hash-baz," meaning "Spoil Speeds. Prey Hastens", an ominous sign concerning the imminent fall of Damascus (Syria) and Samaria (Israel).

In the Oscar K. Lyle book the name of the son of David Lyle and Mary Blair was given as Robert. However the names and dates of birth for all of his sons were exactly the same as those for Maher Lyle found among numerous Bible records preserved by descendants of Maher and Elizabeth Lyle in Georgia; no names of females were given under Robert Lyle in the book. It was also reported by descendants early in the 20th century that Maher was known to have been a nephew of the three Lyle men who lived at Timber Ridge, Virginia, Matthew, Daniel and John Lyle.

Their home in the section of Bedford County, Virginia, became Campbell County in 1781/82 was very near the Halifax County border area.

In family papers it is said Maher Lyle served as a private during the Revolutionary War; was present when General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown. No record of his actual service has been found and neither he nor Elizabeth lived long enough to apply for a pension offered in 1832 but when Elizabeth, then living in Winn's District, Jackson County, Georgia, was awarded land during the Land Lottery of 1827, the grant reveals that she was the widow of a Revolutionary War Soldier. There is a record in Campbell county, Virginia at a court held September 1782, which records that Maharshalalhazbaz Lyle proved he furnished Christopher Irvine, Commissioner of Provost Law, with 275 Grass Beef. This was when citizens who had rendered service to the Continental Army during the conflict came before the court requesting payment after the war ended. The Irvines were neighbors of the Gibsons.

It is not known how well Maher got along with his wife's family as it appears in this court case Maher had some problems with what appears to be Elizabeth's brothers:

Union County, South Carolina, Minutes of the County Court June 2, 1794
The State vs William Dasefield, Robert Gibson, John Gibson and william Gibson: "Breaking the Peace"
Maher Liles, came into open court and took the necessary oath prescribed by Law and prayed the court for a continuance of the defendant recognizance, whereforce came the said defendants, together with James Lockhead, Thomas Dean, James Maberry, John Beckham, Senr. Their securities and acknowledged themselves indebted to the state in the sum of viz the said defendants in the sum of twenty five pounds and their securities in the sum of ten pounds, to be levied on their certain goods and chattels, for their good behavior towards Maher Liles and his son Delmar Liles for the term of twelve months and one day.

Records show on November 5, 1783 Mahershalalhashbaz Lile and Betty, sold 166 acres on Cheese Creek in Campbell County, Virginia. It was about this time Maher moved to the 96TH District, Union County, South Carolina. On January 2, 1786, Mark Mitchell of Washington County, South Carolina sold to Mahar Lyle, part of a 300 acre grant to Joab Mitchell. There is also a grant February 12, 1793 for Maher Lyle in the 96th district of Union County for 165 acres on a branch of Mill Creek and Jumping Run of Pacolet River.

From traditional accounts and tax records, Dilmus and William, sons of Maher, moved to Jackson county, Georgia before 1800, settling on land on a branch of the Mulberry river, near the Gainesville-Midland Railroad. It was not long after this that Maher and the rest of the family joined them in Georgia.

There is no record of a deed for Maher Lyle in Jackson County, Georgia and he is not taxed for land but does pay for one slave in the Jackson County Tax List for 1809. Family history relates that the slave was named George, that Maher freed him but that he remained with the family continuing to care for Maher. Maher and Elizabeth are believed to have lived with their son William.

Maher and Elizabeth are said to be buried in a family cemetery near the home. One account says they are buried at the forks of the Little Oconee and Mulberry, but there are no markers or headstones to identify their graves as there are with other members. It is said that Dilmus Lyle and his wife, Katherine Reid, moved to Jackson County Georgia soon after their marriage in 1799. While seeking a swift-flowing stream on which to build a mill, Dilmus, instead, found gold. After staking a claim, Dilmus and Katherine set out to inform their families of this find. It is said that Maher and others of his family decided to move to Georgia to share in this discovery of gold, but upon returning, Dilmus could never locate the site of the stream of gold. Mahar and Dilmus with their families settled on the north shore of the Mulberry River on a road that today branches off of State Road 55. The Lyle family cemetery is here, located on part of what was their property. Maher and Elizabeth Lyle are buried in this cemetery. It is believed their graves are located nearer to the house that presently stands on the property for there are no markers or other means to identify the exact spot.

Birth:
Probably in Larne, County Antrim

Buried:
Lyle Cemetery

Maher — Elizabeth Gibson. Elizabeth (daughter of John Gibson and Elizabeth Call) was born 13 Feb 1741, Virginia; died 15 Jan 1831, Jackson Co., Georgia; was buried Jackson Co., Georgia. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Birth:
Sources differ on the year because of the calendar change in the early 1700s to begin the new year on 1 Jan rather than 25 Mar; the William C Lyle Bible cited here establishes her age at death as 89 years rather than 90

Buried:
Lyle Cemetery

John — Elizabeth Call. [Group Sheet]