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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
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Author: Rick Dwayne Hollis
WILLIAM STONE, SR., North Carolina 1745, Virginia – June 1805, Dickson County. With others from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, he was an early settler of the Watauga Settlement. Stone was a member of Captain William Bean’s company in 1778 that helped drive the Tories under Grimes out of Watauga. In 1790, he was Captain of the Washington County Militia, before moving to Grangier County, Tennessee in 1796. Later he and his family moved into Middle Tennessee and, with his son William, Jr., was a signer of the petition to create Dickson County in 1803.
He married Elizabeth Hardeman, 1750 – after 1812. Their children were William, Jr., 8 December 1782 – 5 October 1865 married Keziah Morrisette; Hardeman; Dorcas, married (1) Bartholomew Smith, (2) Coleman Jesse Shelton; John H.; Susanna; Dolly married George W. Shelton; Marble; and Solomon.
Sources: White, Katherine Keogh, The King’s Mountain Men, Dayton, Virginia, 1924, page 227. Williams, Samuel Cole, Dawn of Tennessee Valley and Tennessee History, page 339. Dickson County Will Book A.
Information pertaining to the “Soldiers of the American Revolution Buried in Dickson County” was compiled by Mrs. Baron M. Stuart, DAR Regent, 1974 — 1977 in preparation for the unveiling of the DAR Monument on the Courthouse Lawn on 4 July 1976, celebrating the American Bicentennial. The information was updated 25 February 1980 by the Gideon Carr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, 14 January 2005 and 31 August 2006 by Rick Hollis, Charter President, Christopher Strong Chapter, Tennessee Society Sons of the American Revolution. Jean Hickman, Dickson County Genealogist, and Linda Parker, Dickson County Archivist, gave valuable advice and assistance.
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