Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-03

tary.
 E. S. Smith of Birmingham, former, president, made some remarks. He is about to remove to Seattle, where his sons, one lawyer and one doctor, reside. William E. Downs spoke in satisfaction of the preparation of the genealogical work, and Rev. Josiah Tyler, late missionary in South Africa, now of St. Johnsbury, Vt., was present and made remarks.
 James B. Stone of Worcester, Mass, also made remarks. A recitation was given by Bertha Stone of Orange, ,subject:r Aunt Tabitha Never Did So." John Hooker of Hartford followed with remarks. A recita- ton was given by Ethel Stone of Orange, Harvest Home" Remarks were also made by Dr. DeF Forest of Middlebury, Fred erick Stone of New Jersey, H. C.. Wooding of Bristol, and William B. Downes of New Haven Samuel Stone Hotchkiss of Hart ford and by 0. s. Smith of Terryville.
 At the reunion Stones were present from Washington, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey and New York states. From New York city was present Mrs. Doremus, wife of New York million
 Rev. Samuel Stone, non-conformist divine of Herefordshire, England, was the common ancestor of the brothers Simeon, Gregory and Isaac, who settled at Water town, Mass, and of William and John of Guilford, Conn. The following interest ing paper was prepared for the occasion by c. s. Smith of Terryville, the correspond ing secretary, who read similar paper last year. Owing to the limited time the paper could not be given yesterday.
 After another year of storm and sun shine, of happiness and of sorrow, the God of our fathers has brought us together again in fraternal greetings, to renew fealty to those whose blood flows in our veins, though centuries intervene and oceans separate their dust of the, past from our living present. s*.
 In these closing years of the nineteenth century it is impossible to realize the mag nitude of the act of forsaking the old world for the new, of collecting together their little all and of leaving fasherland forever. -
 Reared from childhood on English soil, the England of that day, notwithstanding it's rude and primitive lines of thought and action, when judged from our own stand point, was without doubt at the front of the worlds civilization.
 There in the garden of the world for un- known generations our sires lived, died and were buried, it's soil to them was sa- cred, for it was actually part of their own kindred. We can conceive of the pleasure or even indifference of changing one's home in the wilderness for land of refinement; but the leaving of pleasant home, with all it's sacred associations and endearments for one whose only inhabi- tapts were even wilder and more savage that the sterile and rocky wilderness round about them, it is impossible to under stand. There must have been motive deeper and more far reaching than hither- to appeared in the worlds economy; even the laying of the corner stone of @ new empire, the foundations whereof were the hitherto unknown, yet faintly freshed avowed idea of religious emancipation and | universal freedom.
 Here if anywhere we see Gods hand in the Pharaoh of English inheritance driv- | ing out chosen few, although stern men | and uncouth they might have been; yet | here new era was to be inaugurated, a l new principle was to be inscribed on the chart of human progress, and Hooker was to install this new idea of representa- tive government-and we'll he and they did this work.
 However, as their part in this great work of civilization our ancestors, the brothers William and John Stone, left the paternal roof at Herefordshire, Eng, left l the sermons and prayers of the sainted father, left the old England, in 1889, crossed the stormy Atlantic, landed at New Haven about the middle of July, and drove | their stakes at Guilford ere the falling of | the snow.
 And now propose to follow them in their history, not continuously, but draw ing little sketch here and there as the subjuct seems to demand.
 | William Stone came to Guilford in 1639 1 with wife Hannah where she died and he I .s.lc c.. . | widow of Richard Hughes. He had three children and died in 1883. Among his de- scendants was the celebrated Leman Stone of Derby, also Rev. Hiram Stone of Litch field and our friends by the name of Stone from Bristol and vicinity. l We have the names of several hundred of his descendants, though only small part. The brother John settled in Gull ford with wife Mary in 1639-died 1887. Four of his five sons married and had fam flies. John, the eldest, married Susannah, daughter of Rev. Roger Newton and grand. daughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker. He went in 1850 to Milford and died in 16S6.
 We have more of the names of his descendants than of any other branch. The other sons of the settler, John Stone, lived at Guilford. Several hundred names of their descendants have been obtained, although probably not one-half. One of them, Nathaniel, is the late William L. Stone, the historian of New York. Also of the same Nathaniel is the somewhat noted family of Dr. Noah Stone of Oxford, Conn. One daughter married Rev. Stephen Hubbell, and was the author of ''Shady Side" A son was the Rev. D. L. Stone, the noted clergyman of Boston and San Francisco Another son, David M. Stone, is, and has been for nearly half century, editor of the New York Journal of Com. l merce.
 Coming out from the same English stock of the brothers William and John Stone, | their descendants commenced separating, 1 the breach ever widening in each succeed ing generation, until in the fifth generation we find the diverging lines reunited in the marriage of Leman Stone of the branch ot William with Louisa Stone of the branch of John. At the present time the only living descendants of this union are Mrs James s. Engles and her son, Charles Stone Engles, of Washington, Conn.
 Again, nearly one hundred years later, the two branches were reunited in the marriage of the honored president of our association, Df. I. s. Stone of NewBritain
 to Miss A. E. Warner of Plymouth, they being respectively descendants of the brothers John and William Stone of Gull ford. " LeInan OGOne was nOteO man ID nls day; born at Litchfeld in 1850, removed to Derby in 1791, where he died in. 1S47, al the age of ninety-seven years. He was g man of energy, largely engaged in com. merce with Boston, New York and the
 West Indies, receiving his supplies from 6 large region of county round about Derby
 and this at time when Derby was dan
 gerous rival of New Haven. But mark the changel The old building standing on the
 bank of the river close to the station oi
 the New Haven and Derby railroad, fol
 years an uninhabited landmark and fas1 going to decay, was built by Lyman Stone over 100 years ago, and as the historian oi Derby has it, "At first vast stone house
 then the receptacle of whalesale garden seeds; next seat of learning, long the domicile of it's enterprising builder, and still longer the residence of one of ths most gifted and estimable women of Derby
 Mrs. Ellen Stone, and has outlived its
 builder and all his children and grandchil. dren except one."
 As we follow the line down in each sue
 ceeding generation is added 8 new branch
 bringing new blood into the family, and ir nearly every instance this new accession if noble, alloyed, added to the lustre of the ancestral name.
 The eldest son of the settler, John, mar. | 1T H. - .