Family: Roland Benton Hester/Mahala Caroline Stone (F013)

• Father | Male Private Roland Benton Hester

  
  

  Born	20 May 1840	Franklin Co., Alabama
  Died	11 Oct 1900	Hamilton, Marion, Alabama
  Buried		Marion Co., Alabama
  Married	21 Mar 1892  [1, 2, 3]	Shottsville, Marion, Alabama  [1, 2, 3]
  Other Spouse	Weltha A Malone | F020
  Married
  Other Spouse	Eva Malone | F021
  Married
  Other Spouse	Arthusa Cantrell | F022
  Married
  Father	Roling Hester | F023 Group Sheet
  Mother	Lucinda Richardson | F023 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Mahala Caroline Stone

  
  

  Born	18 Mar 1854	Bull Mountain, Marion, Alabama
  Died	31 Dec 1937	Marion Co., Alabama
  Buried
  Father	John Lyle Stone | F014 Group Sheet
  Mother	Margaret Caroline Jaggers | F014 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Female Lucinda Hester

  
  

  Born	19 Mar 1893	Alabama
  Died	3 Sep 1900	Marion Co., Alabama
  Buried		Hamilton, Marion, Alabama

  
  

  Child 2 | Female Huldah Jane Hester

  
  

  Born	28 Mar 1895	Alabama
  Died	Mar 1977	Marion Co., Alabama
  Buried		Hamilton, Marion, Alabama
  Spouse	Phillip Edgar Ritch | F028
  Married	1915

  
  

  Child 3 | Female + Mary Ann Hester

  
  

  Born	13 Jan 1897	Marion Co., Alabama
  Died	3 Dec 1976	Flint, Genesee, Michigan
  Buried	Bef 11 Dec 1976	Hamilton, Marion, Alabama
  Spouse	George Madison Gann | F012
  Married	31 Jul 1920	Hamilton, Marion, Alabama

  
  

• Photos

  Hester, Roland B - Family Portrait c. 1898 (left to right) Roland Benton Hester, Rachel Lucretia Hester (standing, holding a picture of Arthur McGara Hester), Lucinda Hester, Mahalia Caroline (Stone) Hester, Mary Ann Hester, Hulda Jane Hester, Margaret Caroline (Jaggers) Stone

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Officiated by J D Stell, Minister of the Gospel The cited newspaper, Hamilton Times, gives the license date as the marriage date

  
  

• Sources

  [S242] Hamilton Times, (J.S. Clemens), Thursday, 24 Mar 1892, pg. 4 (Reliability: 2), 27 Nov 2020. [S12597] Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800-1969, Ancestry.com, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006), Jordan Dodd, Liahona Research (Reliability: 3), 04 Nov 2010. [S157] Alabama, Texas and Virginia, Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958, Ancestry.com, (Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Archives and History), Alabama Confederate Pension Applications, Herring, C. H. - Hicks, K. G. A., img. 632 (Reliability: 3), 30 Jan 2018.