Roy Hunter visited me [Helen Stone Woodruff] last year [1980 or so] and told me of some of his memories. He remembered that his mother was very sick in Romona (Ramona, Oklahoma ??) and her brother, Charley (Charles Hugh Mayberry Stone), came to Oklahoma and got him and his mother and took them to his home near Lamar, Missouri in a covered wagon. [1

Funeral Card --IN MEMORY OF Mrs. Ruth Kreider. BORN January 9, 1878 Kansas. PASSED AWAY December 5, 1945 Springfield, Missouri. SERVICES HELD AT Berman Lohmeyer Chapel 2:00 p.m., Saturday December 8, 1945. OFFICIATING Rev. Robert Baker. SOLOIST Al Stone ORGANIST Mrs. Al Stone INTERMENT Maple Park

1880 Federal Census (Kansas, Coffey, Neosho, 049, 5). Samuel A. Stone W M 52 Farmer; Catherine M. W F 41 Wife ; Keeping House, Carrie M W 18 F Daughter At Home; Mary E. W F 16 Daughter At Home; James H. W M 14 Son At Home; Charles T W M 12 Son At Home; William T. W M 11 Son, At Home; Ralph H.  M 10 Son At School; John C. W M 8 Son; Ruth V W F 2 Daughter. Samuel and Catherine are indicated as married. All the children are marked as single. All children from Carrie to John were in school that year. All four grandparents were born in Virginia. John, Frank, and Ruth were born in Kansas. All the others in the family were born in Ohio.