Francis
Marion Stone
Francis
Marion Stone was born February 27, 1885 in Johnson County Arkansas, possibly in
the Pilot Rock Township of that county. He moved with his father and family to
Camden, Oklahoma between the years of 1890 and 1897, His sister Martha was married
in Oklahoma in September of 1897. He moved again with his family to the
Hartshorne area of Oklahoma after June 1900 and before June of 1910. He was
always known as "Mack".
Some
time between 1910 and 1925 Francis Marion married Martha Hurt, at this time the
dates and where they were married are unknown. Of this union were born four
sons Willie Edward, Alvin and Calvin, twins, and John B.. Hilliard Stone was an
adopted son of Francis Marion, but to him he was just a son. No one in the
family ever spoke of Hilliard being adopted. There has been mention of a sister
also, but nothing is known of her at this time. Calvin died at the age of one
and a half.
Francis
Marion and Martha moved to Bokoshe, Oklahoma probably in the 1910's or in the
early 1920's. He was a blacksmith and had a shop out behind his house in
Bokoshe. The house was a four room house, a living room, kitchen, and two
bedrooms. There were two doors on the front of the house, a porch on the front,
another on the side with a well in the middle, and another porch on the back of
the house. There was a cellar in the front yard just to the left of the
sidewalk and a tree on the east side of the house that had a steel rod in it to
hold it together from where it had started to split.
In
1964 Martha died and Francis Marion moved into a nursing home in Panama
Oklahoma. He later moved to another nursing home in Hartshore Oklahoma where he
died in September of 1973. He is buried at the cemetary at Hartshorne Oklahoma.