Margaret wrote a story about her experiences in religion. At the top of the page is “Margaret Stone Her Book. Thomas Stone his pen in Hand”. At the bottom, May 12, 1798”. Found in a Bible of David Johnston the following: “Margaret Stone, the wife of George Johnston, born May 26, 1773. Margaret was a third cousin of Geore Washington”. In her story she said she joined the Methodist Society on the second day of May in 1794 and was baptised in the Lost River.

It is believed they went to Woodford County, Kentucky in 1811. In 1824 they were in Jefferson county, Illinois and later in Adams County, Illinois, Payson Twsp, where there was a Stone settlement.1