The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-03-01
OBITUARY.

The community of Dallas was stricken
with both surprise and grief on Sunday
morning to learn OF the death of Col. Stone,
q. 1880 O'Clock the previous night, February
26, 1881. He had not only been attending
to business on the streets during the day in
apparently robust health, but was engaged
till 0 p. m, when he went home in excellent
spirits, suddenly stricken in his room and
ustering only the expression, at is my heart"
Before his children and other inmates of the
house could respond to the cry of Mrs.
Stone, no was q corpse. Imagination may
picture The scene for this friendly pen can
not.
He was buried on the day following from
tho Commerce street Christian church, Rev.
Messrs. Shodle, Fuber and Smith oliiciat-
ing, and was followed to his lust resting
place by large concourse of friends.
Doubtless detsiled biography Of COL
Stone will shortly appear, as ono is now in
the publishers Daads OF ne E4cyclopR ljA Of
the New West; but respect Tor tue people OF
this country demands brief rec3 p!ulation
Of his career and character.
Barton Warren Stone was horn in George
town, kentucky, On the 6th Of November,
1917, and was coase luentlg sixty-thcas yesrs,
three months and tasnty-live days old on
the day of his death. he was the son of
Barton w. Stone an eminent divine and one
Of tho oldest ministers ia The Christian
church. Ills mothe: was Miss Bowen, o.
Tennessee, one Of whose sisters was the
mother of Gov. VIM. B. Campbell Of that
slate, aud another of Col john II, Moore
the distinguished old Texas chieEain of
whom honorable mention has recently been
made in the DALLAS HERALD.
Col. Stone studied law partly under that
lamented hero of Buena Vista Col. John j.
Hardin, of Illinois. After reaching tho bar,
he resiIed for some years at Memphis, Ten
ressee. He married daughter of the ZION.
Tilghman A. Howard, of Indiana, vino died
IN rexas as American charge de atfaires in
1874. In 1851 he came to Dallas ard locs-
ted as n lawyer TILL war became imminent in
1861. tic then raised and commanded the
sixth Texas cavalry, one of the best regi-
ments In tho service, till its re-
organization st Corinth during
the next year. He won distinction st Elk
horn, Arkansas, in March, 1862 and at
Pennington, near Corintb, a little later. Re.
turning home, he raised second regiment,
besides large bsttalion, and did gallant
service IN the Louisiana campaigns of Is - "a.
at tho close of 1865, after the war, no
spent q year in kentucky, and then located
ON farm ia Howard county, Missouri, where
ha remained till November 1879, whel h.
resumed his residence in Pallaa, and WAS
Welcome 10 his old home, after fourteen
yeats absence, by = host of frie do. His first
wife died, iesyigg him two daughters, only
one Of whom survives, married in Missouri.
dis second wif, aAd now bresgel widow, WEB
Miss Sue Smith, Of Mount Sterling, Keu-
lucky. lie leaves hor with four daughters
and one son to cherish his memory. lie was
man OF fine presence, open, generous
heart, devoted husband and father,
true friend, q patriotic citizen Of superior
ability aud member Of the Cnfistian church.
His death. so sudden, whilo in tho most per.
feet health, 80 far rs appearances 60, will DO
mourncd by his old comrades in arms and
thousands Of Others in Texas, Kentucky,
Tennessee and Missouri.
Less could not be said at present. His
forthcoming biography, it is hoped, will
meet the demand of his mora immediate
friends, and will doubtless do justice to his
high character, fine ability and public
Services. y. y. Y.