Ada Maria Stone

    John Calvin's wife is Ada Stone. Ada was born to Henry Sparhawk Stone and Martha Lois Stacy in Osceola, Stark, Illinois. She is the second daughter of 10 children. I have done little research on her and her family as there is an extensive book about the Stone line. It is Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass. 1320-1917 by J. Gardner Bartlett. She and John were married in Toulon, Stark, Illinois. The couple can be found with their children in the Gregory Stone book on page 706. Her parents and siblings are listed and discussed on pages 705-707.

    One of the problems that I have had in my research is locating Ada in the 1880 census prior to her marriage. I have found her parents in Union, Republic, Kansas with her siblings Guy, Julia, Glenn, and Effie. I have also found her oldest sister Flora living with her grandparents Liberty and Thankful Stone in Buda, Bureau, Illinois. Her younger sister Bell is found living with her Aunt and Uncle Louisa and William Jackson in Elmira, Stark, Illinois. Her younger brother Gilbert has already passed away, leaving her sister Henrietta unaccounted for. Henrietta is married to a George Cinnamon the same year in Elmira, Stark, Illinois. I have found George with his family in Elmira and suspect that Henrietta is not far away. I have also found an Ada in Osceola, Stark Illinois that is 19 (a year or two off) and a servant for the Winslow family. It states that her father is from Massachusetts and her mother from Ohio. Both the Gregory Stone book as well as the two censuses that I have state that Martha is from Illinois. I hope that when Henrietta is located, that Ada will also surface.

For those of you that are interested, I do have copies of Ada with her family in the 1860 and 1870 census.