HENRY S. STONE was born in Rutherford county, Tenn., February 20, 1820; lived there until eight or nine years of age, when he came with his father to Illinois, and settled in Greene county, upon a farm near Carrollton; lived there until the fall of 1855, when he moved upon a farm in Macoupin county; remained there some five years, then bought a farm of two hundred and fifty acres in this township, where he still lives. He is a son of Thomas Stone, who was born in Virginia. He was in the War of 1812, under Jackson. His wife, Cassie (Owen) Stone, was born in North Carolina, and was a member of the Baptist Church; was in the War of 1812, and died March 19, 1855. His wife, Mary (McVeigh) Hall, was born in Tennessee; was a member of the Baptist church and the mother of seven children. She still lives at Virden, Illinois. Mr. Henry Stone is a member of the Baptist church, and in politics is a Democrat. He holds the offices of school director and commissioner of highways. In the spring of 1852, he went overland to California, with a party who were three months on the road; was there three years.