The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-09-05
STONE FAMILY REUNION
ABOUT ONE HUNDRED MEMBERS OF
 THE FAMILY REUNITE.

United States-Ofiicers Elected-An In-
 teresting Social Time-Names of Those
 Present.
 Two hundred and flfty-six years ago John Stone of Herefordshire, Eng, left his native country and coming to the wilds of New England settled on the shores of Long Island Sound in what is now the town of Guilford.
 It seems highly probable that 1t was here that the Stone family acquired first their taste for the clans of Long Island Sound and the other etceteras that go to make up a good shore din- ner. To-day the descendants of the set tler John Stone, number nearly 2,000, and they have overrun the borders of little Connecticut, and established their hearthstones in many of the United States.
 Yesterday nearly one hundred of these met to hold their ninth reunion at the pleasantly located Pembroke house at Woodmont. Here with the pleasantest of September days they renewed old friendships and formed new ones with long separated members of their fam fly.
 Over five hundred invitations had been sent out by C. s. Smith of Terry vile, and nearly hundred members of the family, both young and old, responded to it and were present. The business meeting was called to order at Il o'clock by the president, s. M. Hotchkiss of Hartford. The secre- tary read the minutes of the last meet ing, and they were accepted. The oom- mittee of arrangements for the re- union of 1895 also reported. The com mittee for the selection of a badge re- ported and presented a badge pin. The pin is of sterling silver in imitation of the Pilgrim Rock and has inscribed upon it: 1889 Guilford Stone Family" D. l.. Clark, chairman of the library committee, made a brief report. Rev. | Joel Stone and Henry E. Rhoades, | lieutenant in the engineer corps of the | United States navy, both presented 1 books to the association.
 | The book presented by Lieutenant | Rhoades is finely illustrated volume | of 300 pages, written by himself and | entitled Around the World With the Blue Jackets" Lieutenant Rhoades Is eminently qualified for the task of writ l ing such a book, as he has been in | the navy since 1S61,, and has sailed on many voyages, among them the famous voyage of De Long in the polar re- gions. The meeting further noted that | the genealogy of the family should be collected and published, and the edit ! ing of the work was left in the hands l of c. s. Smith. It was further voted 1 that the said genealogY should be con l3ffned to the descendants of John Stone of Guilford, 1639.
 1 The committee to nominate officers for l the coming year were as follows: w.. | F. Downes, H. E. RhoadeS, D. L.. | Clark, c. s. Smith, Miss Tibbals. It | was also voted to authorize the presi- dent and secretary to arrange for the | reading of a paper on some member of
 the family at the next reunion.
 l The following committee was also ap- l pointed to draw up a brief constitu- ton for the association: P. Downes, c. S. Smith, Joel Stone Ives.
 The meeting then adjourned for din-
 ner.
 A fine shore dinner was served up in the dining room of the Pembroke | house. All fell to with good appetites
 and will and enjoyed not only the din- ner but the opportunity for a social time which it gave.
 After dinner the nominating commit | ,i11sr nffi afof, the ensuing year: President, Rev. Joel Stone Ives; secretary, Mrs.
 Rhoades; treasurer, H. B. Dykman; vice president, A. F. Stone, Louisville, Ky; Lyman s. Stone, New York; Sanford Coe Stone, New Haven; J. B. Stone, Worcester. Mass; Elliot Stone, River
 dale, N. r.; Merwin E. Stone, Wash ington, D. C.; Mrs. Marvin A. Tibbals, Milford; Mrs. M. Virginia Smith, Welles- ley college; MT. Charles c. Ford. Wash ington, D. c. The report of the com
 mittee was accepted and the above
 officers elected.
 The remainder of the afternoon was
 passed in pleasant social enjoyment, and
 in tracing out the family genealogy
 with one another, and eager was the
 search made for some slight traces
 of the old, original John Stone of Gull
 ford blood, and happy the one who
 found a clear descent from the old set
 tier and read his or her title clear to
 membership in the Stone family.
 Old family recollections were also told
 and the hearts of the younger gener' |-ation were made to beat more quickly
 as they heard the exploits of their an
 cestors told MT. c. $. Smith of Terry
 vile, who is engaged in preparation ot
 the Stone family genealogy, finds many | things of interest in the history of this
 old New England family, and it ap pears from work already done by hin that John Stone, the founder of tht American branch of the Stone family was the son of the Rev. Samuel Stone of Herefordshire, England. His son John Stone, jr., removed to Milford where he married the daughter of tht
 Rev. Roger Newton and the grand daughter of the Rev. Thomas Hooker the leader in the Hartford settlement MT. c. s. Smith also showed some pear! picked from a tree set out in 1855 by { member of the Stone family one Simo1 Stone, in Watertown, Mass, where nov is the famous Mt. Auburn cemetery
 The pears were fair and hard, but tot | large to eat as yet.