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Arthur Houston Stone

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Arthur Houston Stone

Birth
Tennessee, USA
Death
16 Oct 1945 (aged 60)
White Rock, Hunt County, Texas, USA
Burial
Tidwell, Hunt County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Hunt County, Texas, Marriages 1846-1911, page 446:
groom: Stone, A.H.
bride: Shanks, Geneva
married: 3 Oct 1906
recorded: marriage volume N page 125

Texas Death Index:
Arthur Houston Stone 16 Oct 1945 Hunt

Name: Arthur Houston Stone
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 16 Oct 1945
Event Place: Celeste, Hunt, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 15 Apr 1885
Birthplace: , Tennessee
Father's Name: Andrew Jackson Stone
Mother's Name: Margaret Horton
Certificate Number: 44688
GS Film number: 2218184
Digital Folder Number: 005145011
Image Number: 03302
Citing this Record:
"Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K39D-LK7 : accessed 7 November 2015), Arthur Houston Stone, 16 Oct 1945; citing certificate number 44688, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,218,184.

[Source: Peters Funeral Home Records, 1941-1955, by Hunt County Genealogical Society (1992), page 73: Arthur Houston Stone; white; born 15 Apr 1885 TN; store operator; resided White Rock; married; died 16 Oct 1945 home; aged 60 years; son of Andrew Jackson Stone (born TN) & Margaret Horton (born TN); resided in county 57 years]


Greenville (Texas) Evening Banner, Tue, 16 Oct 1945, page 5, Arthur H. Stone Called by Death; Services Pending

Funeral services are pending arrival of relatives for Arthur Houston Stone, 60, who died this morning at 6:30 o'clock at his home in the Whiterock community following a short illness. Rev. Fred Moore and Rev. Herbert Lowe will officiate at the service and burial will take place in the Tidwell Cemetery. The arrangements are being made by the Gray Sorrells Funeral Home.

A native of Tennessee, Mr. Stone was born April 11, 1885 and was the son of Andrew Jackson Stone and Margaret Horton Stone. He came to Texas with his parents when he was 3 years of age and located in the Whiterock community where he had lived since that time.

Mr. Stone was operator of a store and also one of the best-known and influential farmers and citizens of the Whiterock community. He had been a member of the Whiterock Baptist Church since 12 years of age. His wife was the former Geneva Shanks, and they were married in 1906 in Whiterock.

Surviving are his wife, two sons, Charles Leon Stone of Houston, A. G. Stone of Whiterock; one daughter, Mrs. Maxine Clift of Whiterock; his mother, Mrs. A. J. Stone of Whiterock; one brother, Leon Stone of Longview; a grandson Charles Dwain Stone and several nieces and nephews. One child preceded him in death.
Hunt County, Texas, Marriages 1846-1911, page 446:
groom: Stone, A.H.
bride: Shanks, Geneva
married: 3 Oct 1906
recorded: marriage volume N page 125

Texas Death Index:
Arthur Houston Stone 16 Oct 1945 Hunt

Name: Arthur Houston Stone
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 16 Oct 1945
Event Place: Celeste, Hunt, Texas, United States
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 15 Apr 1885
Birthplace: , Tennessee
Father's Name: Andrew Jackson Stone
Mother's Name: Margaret Horton
Certificate Number: 44688
GS Film number: 2218184
Digital Folder Number: 005145011
Image Number: 03302
Citing this Record:
"Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K39D-LK7 : accessed 7 November 2015), Arthur Houston Stone, 16 Oct 1945; citing certificate number 44688, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,218,184.

[Source: Peters Funeral Home Records, 1941-1955, by Hunt County Genealogical Society (1992), page 73: Arthur Houston Stone; white; born 15 Apr 1885 TN; store operator; resided White Rock; married; died 16 Oct 1945 home; aged 60 years; son of Andrew Jackson Stone (born TN) & Margaret Horton (born TN); resided in county 57 years]


Greenville (Texas) Evening Banner, Tue, 16 Oct 1945, page 5, Arthur H. Stone Called by Death; Services Pending

Funeral services are pending arrival of relatives for Arthur Houston Stone, 60, who died this morning at 6:30 o'clock at his home in the Whiterock community following a short illness. Rev. Fred Moore and Rev. Herbert Lowe will officiate at the service and burial will take place in the Tidwell Cemetery. The arrangements are being made by the Gray Sorrells Funeral Home.

A native of Tennessee, Mr. Stone was born April 11, 1885 and was the son of Andrew Jackson Stone and Margaret Horton Stone. He came to Texas with his parents when he was 3 years of age and located in the Whiterock community where he had lived since that time.

Mr. Stone was operator of a store and also one of the best-known and influential farmers and citizens of the Whiterock community. He had been a member of the Whiterock Baptist Church since 12 years of age. His wife was the former Geneva Shanks, and they were married in 1906 in Whiterock.

Surviving are his wife, two sons, Charles Leon Stone of Houston, A. G. Stone of Whiterock; one daughter, Mrs. Maxine Clift of Whiterock; his mother, Mrs. A. J. Stone of Whiterock; one brother, Leon Stone of Longview; a grandson Charles Dwain Stone and several nieces and nephews. One child preceded him in death.


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