NameSamuel STONE 1
Birthaft 1775
Deathbef Oct 1840, Illinois, Adams County
ReligionMethodist Minister In Adams County Illinois
Note by HNS notes for Samuel STONE
There is a deed from James Stone and wife Rebecca to Samuel Stone dated March 28, 1815 for 98 acres of land in Licking County, Ohio, near that of George Stone, evidently this is the inherited land from his parents.
The 1820 census for Licking Co., Ohio records:
4 males under 10 born between 1810-1820
1 male 10-15 1804-1810
1 male 26-44 1776-1794
1 femal under 10 1810-1820
1 female 16-25 1795-1804
1 female 26-44 1776-1794.
Samuel does not show up in later Census. It is believed he migrated to Adams County, Illinois April 1822. From Quincy and Adams County, Illinois by Wilcox- Vol #1 page 628/29
“The little village of plainville, Southeast of the central part of Payson Twsp was originally called “Stone’s Prairie. Samuel Stone settled in that locality in the year 1822; himself and his family and descendants gve the settlement its early name. For many years, while the Post Office was called Stone’s Prairie, the village was known as ‘Shakerag’.”
Samuel made his Will in 8-Sep-1840 and it came before Probate 7-Oct-1840 in Adams County Illinois.