Lucinda Hester

Other Events:

• Census: 1900, Pikeville, Marion, Alabama; Enumeration District 6-68
• Residence: 1900, Pikeville, Marion, Alabama; With parents Roland B and Mahala C (Stone) Hester, a half-sister and two sisters

Notes:

Buried:
Cantrell-Young Cemetery

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Dist. 6, Franklin, Alabama
• Census: 1860, Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama; Frankfort P.O.
• Census: 1870, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; Frankfort P.O.
• Census: 1880, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; Enumeration District 89
• Census: 1900, Pikeville, Marion, Alabama; Enumeration District 6-68
• Civil War Veteran: 28 Mar 1861 - 01 Apr 1862, Alabama; Private, Co E, 2nd Alabama Infantry
• Occupation: 1860, Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama; Farm laborer
• Occupation: 1870, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; Farm laborer
• Occupation: 1880, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; Farm worker
• Occupation: 1900, Pikeville, Marion, Alabama; Farmer
• Probate: 30 Oct 1900, Marion County, Alabama; Letters of administration granted to W H Carpenter, General Administrator
• Probate: 16 Jan 1901, Marion County, Alabama; Estate sale of land scheduled for 11 Feb 1901
• Probate: 27 Feb 1902, Marion County, Alabama; Final estate settlement
• Residence: 1850, Dist. 6, Franklin, Alabama; With parents Roling and Lucinda (Richardson) Hester, eight siblings and two uncles
• Residence: 1860, Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama; With parents Roling and Lucinda (Richardson) Hester and five siblings
• Residence: 1870, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; With parents Roling and Lucinda (Richardson) Hester and two brothers
• Residence: 1880, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; In the home of brother Robert M Hester, with a sister, two nieces and son Arthur M Hester
• Residence: 1900, Pikeville, Marion, Alabama; With wife Mahala C (Stone) Hester and four daughters

Notes:

Roland Benton Hester was born May 20 1840 Franklin County Alabama, the fifth child of Roling Hester and Lucinda Richardson. He died 11 Oct 1900 in Hamilton, Alabama. He married 1st "Welty" (or Wealtha) Ann Malone. They had one son, Arthur McGara Hester (b. June 1 1872). After 1st wife passed away, Roland married Eva Malone, but soon Eva deceased and Roland took yet another wife, Susie Ann Cantrell (1856-1891) of Marion County, Alabama. To this third marriage was born three sons and one daughter: Garland Benton Hester (died as an infant); Rachael Lucretia Hester (1885-1935; married 1904 to Robert Charles Duncan, Jr.); William Chesley Hester (died as infant); and Moorman Sacratus Hester (died as infant).

After 3rd wife, Susie Ann passed away on 28 June 1891, Roland married ( 17 Mar, 1892 Shottsville, AL) Mahala Caroline Stone (b. Mar 18, 1854-d. 1937) also of Marion Co., Alabama (daughter of John Lyle Stone). To this 4th marriage was born two daughters, Huldah Jane Hester (1895-1914; married Phillip Edgar Ritch)and Mary Ann Hester (1897-1976; married George Madison Gann). Roland's widow, Mahala, in July 1908, received a Confederate pension for his faithful service to the Confederacy. Eight years after his death, Mahala owned 40 acres in Marion County, one mare with two colts, a cow with calfs, one hog, a clock, and a horse wagon. Total property value: $227.00.

Not found in Marion Co., Alabama online probate records (20 Oct 2015)

Census:
This census shows his name as "Robert" while his brother Robert is listed as "Roling." The census taker botched a number of other names in this family as well

Census:
Listed as "Robt J Hester"

Buried:
Hester Plot
Terrell Cemetery

Roland married Mahala Caroline Stone 21 Mar 1892, Shottsville, Marion, Alabama. Mahala (daughter of John Lyle Stone and Margaret Caroline Jaggers) was born 18 Mar 1854, Bull Mountain, Marion, Alabama; died 31 Dec 1937, Marion Co., Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1860, Western Dist., Marion, Alabama; Pikeville P.O.
• Census: 1870, Western District, Marion, Alabama; Pikeville P.O.
• Census: 1880, Beat 3, Marion, Alabama; Enumeration District 237
• Census: 1900, Pikeville, Marion, Alabama; Enumeration District 6-68
• Census: 1910, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama; Enumeration District 6-76
• Census: 1920, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama; Enumeration District 57
• Census: 1930, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama; Enumeration District 47-3
• Occupation: 1870, Western District, Marion, Alabama; Keeping house
• Occupation: 1910, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama; Farmer, General farm
• Occupation: 1920, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama; Farmer, General Farm
• Residence: 1860, Western Dist., Marion, Alabama; With parents John L and Margaret C (Jaggers) Stone and seven siblings
• Residence: 1870, Western District, Marion, Alabama; With mother Margaret C (Jaggers) and six siblings
• Residence: 1880, Beat 3, Marion, Alabama; With brother Burzela Stone, mother Margaret C (Jaggers), sister Martha J
• Residence: 1900, Pikeville, Marion, Alabama; With husband Roland B Hester, three daughters and a step-daughter
• Residence: 1910, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama; With two daughters
• Residence: 22 Oct 1914, Marion Co., Alabama; Near Hamilton
• Residence: 1920, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama; With a daughter
• Residence: 1930, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama; Living alone
• Residence: 21 Mar 1934, Hamilton, Marion, Alabama; Rt. 1, living alone

Notes:

Birth:
Confederate pension application: "Bullmountain, Marion, Ala."

Notes:

Married:
Officiated by J D Stell, Minister of the Gospel

The cited newspaper, Hamilton Times, gives the license date as the marriage date

Other Events:

• Census: 1830, Franklin Co., Alabama
• Census: 1840, Franklin Co., Alabama
• Census: 1850, Dist. 6, Franklin, Alabama
• Census: 1860, Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama; Frankfort P.O.
• Census: 1870, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; Frankfort P.O.
• Census: 1880, Twp. 10 Range 13, Franklin, Alabama; Enumeration District 88
• Occupation: 1850, Dist. 6, Franklin, Alabama; Farmer
• Occupation: 1860, Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama; Farmer
• Occupation: 1870, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; Farmer
• Occupation: 1880, Twp. 10 Range 13, Franklin, Alabama; Retired
• Residence: 1830, Franklin Co., Alabama; With a boy under age 5 and a woman age 20 to 29
• Residence: 1840, Franklin Co., Alabama; With a boy and a girl under age 5, two boys aged 5 to 10, a boy aged 10 to 15 and a woman aged 30 to 40
• Residence: 1850, Dist. 6, Franklin, Alabama; With wife Lucinda (Richardson), nine children and two brothers
• Residence: 1860, Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama; With wife Lucinda (Richardson) and six children
• Residence: 1867, Precinct 1, Franklin, Alabama; Election district 42
• Residence: 1870, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; With wife Lucinda (Richardson) and three sons
• Residence: 1880, Twp. 10 Range 13, Franklin, Alabama; With son William C Hester and family

Notes:

At least four sons of Roling Hester (b. 23 Jan 1807 NC, d. 20 Jul 1882 AL) and Lucinda Richardson (b. 9 Dec 1805 GA, d. 9 Oct 1875 AL) served in the Confederate Army. Roling was the son of William "Buck" Hester (b. 27 Jan 1780 NC, d. 5 Oct 1847 Franklin Co., AL) and Amy Malone. "Buck" Hester and Amy Malone were married 18 Oct 1805 in Person County, North Carolina. Amy was born 17 March 1789 in North Carolina and died 23 Jan 1840 Franklin County, Alabama. She was the daughter of John Malone (b. abt 1763 North Carolina) and Anne Blackwell who married 25 Jul 1786 in Granville County, NC. John was a son of Daniel Malone (b. about 1725 Virginia). Buck Hester was the son of Robert Hester (will written 22 Aug 1820 and probated June 1827, Person Co., NC). Buck came to Franlin county in 1818, first settling east of Russelville, around Tharp Springs. He later moved near Frankfort along Tollison creek. Buck and Amy Hester were the parents of sixteen children, four of whom were known to have served in the Confederate army: Sgt. William Carroll Hester, Pvt. Roland Benton Hester, Sterling Richardson Hester (rank unknown) and Pvt. Wiley Robertson Hester.

Roling Hester was born 23 January 1807 in North Carolina. He was the oldest child of William H. (Buck) Hester Sr. and Amy Malone Hester. In the spring of 1818, the year before Alabama became a state, young Roling, a lad 11 years of age, traveled by ox cart with his father, William H. (Buck) Hester Sr., from North Carolina to northwest Alabama. They settle five or six miles east of Russellville, Alabama, near the Gaines Trace at Tharp Springs. They cleared land, planted a small corn crop and erected a log cabin for themselves. William H. (Buck) Hester Sr. secured a section of land in 1818 in Franklin County from the Bureau of Land Management. Franklin County was created February 4, 1818 by the Alabama Territorial Legislature at St. Stephens.

In the latter part of 1818, Roling and his father returned to North Carolina to bring Roling's mother, Amy Malone Hester, and her six other children to their new home in Alabama. On the trip to Alabama, the Hester family was accompanied by Pumphrey and James Malone, who were brothers of Amy Malone Hester. They traveled in an ox cart caravan from Person County, North Carolina to their new home in the Territory of Alabama. In Alabama, the number of children of William H. (Buck) Hester Sr. and Amy Malone Hester grew to a total of 16.

Subsequently the Hester famly left their first settlement east of Russellville to relocate near the banks of Tollison creek, near Frankfort, Alabama. Descendants think the reason for the move was that the eastern part of Franklin County was becoming too heavily populated. largely as a result of the finalizing of the 1817 Indian treaties. This increase in population lessened the supply of fish and game in east Franklin County. There was a bountiful supply of wild game in the unsettled wilderness and an abundance of fish in Tollison creek. This area was bounded on the western side by the Chickasaw Indian Territory, which followed the course of Cane Creek through what is today Colbert County (created 1867) and continued southward through Franklin County. According to old land records, Roling Hester purchased over 200 acres of land in this area between 1834 and 1855.

At the age of 22, Roling married Lucendy Richardson, a native of Georgia who was 17 at the time. They reared nine children to adulthood. Eight of these children parented large families. Their third child, James Goodloe Hester never married. Much of the seventy five year life span of Roling Hester was spent along Tollison Creek. He and his wife Lucendy Richardson Hester, are buried in that area of Franklin County, Alabama, in the Malone Cemetery.

Probate records of Franklin Co., Alabama were destroyed in 1890 and are not available for earlier years (26 Sep 2017)

Buried:
Malone Cemetery

Roling married Lucinda Richardson 11 Dec 1828, Maury Co., Tennessee. Lucinda (daughter of John Wiley Richardson and Syntha Willis) was born 9 Dec 1805, Georgia; died 9 Oct 1875, Alabama; was buried Franklin Co., Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Dist. 6, Franklin, Alabama
• Census: 1860, Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama; Frankfort P.O.
• Census: 1870, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; Frankfort P.O.
• Occupation: 1860, Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama; Domestic
• Occupation: 1870, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; Keeping house
• Residence: 1850, Dist. 6, Franklin, Alabama; With husband Rolin Hester, nine children and two brothers-in-law
• Residence: 1860, Eastern Subdiv., Franklin, Alabama; With husband Roling Hester and six children
• Residence: 1870, Twp. 6 Range 12, Franklin, Alabama; With husband Roling Hester and three sons

Notes:

Buried:
Malone Cemetery

Notes:

Married:
Officiated by Alex Johnson, J.P.

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, 14th Dist., Marion, Alabama
• Census: 1860, Western Dist., Marion, Alabama; Pikeville P.O.
• Census: 1866, Marion Co., Alabama
• Occupation: 1850, 14th Dist., Marion, Alabama; Farmer
• Occupation: 1860, Western Dist., Marion, Alabama; Farmer
• Residence: 1850, 14th Dist., Marion, Alabama; With wife Margaret C (Jaggers) and four children
• Residence: 1860, Western Dist., Marion, Alabama; With wife Margaret C (Jaggers) and eight children
• Residence: 1866, Marion Co., Alabama; With two girls under age 10, a boy and four girls age 10 to 20 and two men and a woman over age 20
• 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

Died:
Place sometimes given as Bull Mountain, Marion, Alabama

John married Margaret Caroline Jaggers 1841. Margaret (daughter of Daniel Duncan Jaggers and Hepsabeth Sanderson) was born 9 May 1824, Limestone Co., Alabama; died 7 May 1900, Shottsville, Marion, Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, 14th Dist., Marion, Alabama
• Census: 1860, Western Dist., Marion, Alabama; Pikeville P.O.
• 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, 14th Dist., Marion, Alabama; With husband John L Stone and four children
• Residence: 1860, Western Dist., Marion, Alabama; With husband John L Stone and eight children
• Residence: 1870, Western District, Marion, Alabama; With seven children
• Residence: 1880, Beat 3, Marion, Alabama; With son Burzela and two daughters, Mahala and Martha J

Notes:

Not found in Marion Co., AL Final Estate Records v. 4-6 (1899 - 1908)

Died:
There is disagreement between the sources for her death date. One says 1889, the other says 7 May 1900. We believe the latter date due to a family photograph of the Roland B Hester family that shows her alongside Mary Ann Hester, who was born in 1897.

"Old AUNT CAROLINE STONE died a few days ago."
(Marion County News, May 17, 1900)

Other Events:

• Census: 1820, Franklin Co., Alabama
• Census: 1830, Franklin Co., Alabama
• Census: 1840, Franklin Co., Alabama
• Residence: 1820, Franklin Co., Alabama; With four boys and four girls under age 21 and a woman over age 21
• Residence: 1830, Franklin Co., Alabama; With two girls under age 5, two boys and two girls age 5 to 9, a boy and a girl age 10 to 14, a boy and a girl age 15 to 19 and a woman age 40 to 49
• Residence: 1840, Franklin Co., Alabama; With three boys and two girls aged 5 to 9, two girls aged 10 to 14, a boy aged 15 to 19, and a man aged 20 to 29

Notes:

Some sources say William "Buck" Hester was born in Ceder Creek, Franklin County, North Carolina. He left North Carolina in the Spring of 1818 for north Alabama. He was accompanied by his oldest son, Roling. That spring they cleared several acres of land in Franklin County near Gaines Trace at Tharp Springs and planted a corn crop. In the fall they returned to North Carolina to bring Amy and the rest of the children to Alabama in an ox cart. Two of Amy's brothers, Pumpfrey Malone and James Malone, also made the trip and settled in Alabama at the same time. The 1830 census of Franklin County, Alabama shows a Wm Hester, P(umpfrey) Malone, James Malone and R(oling) Hester all on the same page, p. 41.

In his book Forefathers of Franklin County, p. 76, Ritchie Hester recounts that a short while later Buck moved his family to Tollison Creek to be in a less populated area and to be near Amy's brothers. According to Ritchie Hester, Buck had a reputation as a great bear hunter and the Tollison Creek area offered bountiful fishing and game.

Buck made his living as a farmer.

According to Johnny Hester in his book Facts and Fables of Franklin County pgs. 31-32, there are two theories regarding where Buck Hester may be buried. Some people believe that he is buried in the Malone Cemetery which is the final resting place of his son, Roling. There is an unmarked grave next to Lucendy, Roling Hester's wife. Some people believe that this is Buck's grave.

The second theory is that Buck is buried in an unnamed cemetery about 2 1/2 miles from Frankfort. The cemetery has ten unmarked graves. Less than a quarter of a mile from Buck's last homeplace, this is a possibility because it was customary at that time for people to buried near their homes. Some people believe that this may be the burial site for both Buck and Amy.

Additional sources for the information on this generation are:

My Malones by Darse Malone Fant.
Records and information from Freddie Mae Malone.
Records and information from Evelyn Evans.
Olden Times Book, Volume I, sections on the Greenhill Family Cemetery.

Buried:
Unnamed Cemetery #5

William married Amy Malone 18 Oct 1805, Person Co., North Carolina. Amy (daughter of John Malone and Anne Blackwell) was born 17 Mar 1789, North Carolina; died 23 Jan 1840, Frankfort, Franklin, Alabama; was buried Franklin Co., Alabama. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

-- Hester Descendants: Family of Roling Hester and Lucendy Richardson Hester,
compiled by Bernice Hester, 1992 publication information p. iii.
The Hesters that are descended from William Buck and Amy Malone Hester are forever indebted to Amy for being an unusually good record keeper. Her records survive in the family Bible. The family records portion of that Bible was published in The Natchez Trace Traveler, May, 1982 edition.

Buried:
Unnamed Cemetery #5

Other Events:

• Census: 1820, Maury Co., Tennessee
• Census: 1830, Maury Co., Tennessee
• Census: 1840, 6th Civil Dist., Maury, Tennessee
• Probate: 6 Jul 1846, Maury Co., Tennessee; Estate sale
• Residence: 1820, Maury Co., Tennessee; With four boys and a girl under age 10, two girls age 10 to 15, two men and two women aged 16 to 25, a man and a woman age 26 to 44, and six slaves
• Residence: 1830, Maury Co., Tennessee; With a boy age 5 to 9, a boy age 10 to 14, a man age 15 to 19, a woman age 50 to 59, and six slaves
• Residence: 1840, 6th Civil Dist., Maury, Tennessee; With a man aged 15 to 19, a man aged 20 to 29, a woman aged 60 to 69, a free "colored" man over age 55, and five slaves
• Will: 25 Feb 1839, Maury Co., Tennessee

Notes:

Investigation reveals the William Richardson, Sr. left a will written in 1806, filed 1808 in Wilkes Co., Georgia, in which he names his three sons, William, John, and Thomas. A Thomas Richardson is probated in Maury Co., Tennessee in the 1830s and would be of an age to have been John Wiley Richardson's brother. It is possible but far from proven that William Richardson is the father

Some researchers make him the son of William Richardson, Sr. of Wilkes Co., Georgia but do not cite sources.

Died:
Probably closer to the later date, i.e. Jun 1846; he appears in the 1840 census but his estate is auctioned on 6 Jul 1846; his will contained a number of provisions that would have had to have been executed prior to the auction

John married Syntha Willis 1790, Wilkes Co., Georgia. Syntha died Aft 1839. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

No mention in Wilkes Co., Georgia probate records of a Syntha Willis Richardson (30 Nov 2015)
No Willis wills of Wilkes Co., Georgia through 1840 mention a Syntha Willis or Syntha Richardson (30 Nov 2015)

Died:
Mentioned by name in husband John W Richardson's will of 1839

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: 1820, Limestone Co., Alabama
• Census: 1830, Limestone Co., Alabama
• Census: 1852, Mariposa Co., California
• Census: 1860, Smith Twp., Bradley, Arkansas; Mount Elba P.O.
• Occupation: 1852, Mariposa Co., California; Trader
• Occupation: 1860, Smith Twp., Bradley, Arkansas; Farmer
• Residence: 1820, Limestone Co., Alabama; With two boys under age 21 and a woman over age 21
• Residence: 1830, Limestone Co., Alabama; With two girls under age 5, two boys age 5 to 9, two boys age 10 to 14 and a woman age 20 to 29
• Residence: 1831 - 1851, Bradley Co., Arkansas
• Residence: 1852, Mariposa Co., California
• Residence: 1860, Smith Twp., Bradley, Arkansas; With wife Rutha (McCaskill) and a William F Hunter family

Notes:

Not found in Bradley Co., Arkansas Probate Court Record vol. C, 1860-1868; Probate Court Record vol. D, 1868-1880 available but not indexed; Admin Bonds and Letters vol. B, 1857-1908; Wills vol. B, 1860-1933 (16 Oct 2017)
Not found in Cleveland Co., Arkansas Admin Record vol. 1, 1876-1908; Probate Court Record, Vol A, 1873-1893 available but not indexed; Will Record, Vol 1, 1877-1947. Cleveland County was created in 1873 (16 Oct 2017)
Not found in index to estates and inventories of Monroe Co., Mississippi (2 Dec 2015)
Not found in index to letters of administration of Barry Co., Missouri; various volumes of "Probate Records" of the 1850s-1870s; etc. (17 Oct 2017)
Not found in the available online Dallas Co., Arkansas probate records: Wills, Probate Court Records (24 Apr 2017)

Census:
This census shows him as "Daniel Jaggers Senr" and the next entry is another "Daniel Jaggers" -- perhaps a cousin or nephew. That is probably the Daniel P Jaggers (1799 - 1830) who married Hepsabeth Sanderson's sister, Ann

Daniel married Hepsabeth Sanderson 13 Apr 1816, Madison Co., Alabama. Hepsabeth (daughter of James Sanderson and Elizabeth Granade) was born 27 Aug 1794, North Carolina; died Abt 1830, Limestone County, Alabama. [Group Sheet]