Stone, Sheffield F. 1858-1934 Morris Obituary

 The Stone plot is up on the mound to the right at Butternut Valley Cemetery

SHEFFIELD  F.  STONE   1858-1934

Stone, Sheffield F. 1858-1934 Morris Obituary

Sheffield Stone

Morris, Nov. 23---Sheffield F. Stone, 76, veteran hunter, and one of the most respected citizens of the town of Morris, died at the family home Thursday evening at 7:45 after many weeks of illness.

Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Dr. C. E. Vermilya, will be held at the Methodist church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in the family plot at the Brick schoolhouse cemetery.

Addendum: His date of death was Nov. 22, 1934. If there is an obituary with more information, I don't have one in the Mary Boice Gale Collection. I do have more information on him since he was my Grandfather William E. Stone's half brother.

Sheffield Fordyce Stone was born March 15, 1858 at Burlington, NY to Isaac Aylesworth and Phebe (Talbot) Stone, the oldest son of their 5 sons. He was a direct descendent of Arthur Aylsworth as well as Simon Stone. He married Arabelle R. Haynes in 1890. According to the 1900 census, they had one child, but none were living.

In 1892 they were living in Otego, NY, but moved to Morris in 1902 and lived there the rest of their lives. He was a blacksmith much of his life. On the 1925 and 1930 census, his occupation was listed as a farmer.

Link to Sheffield Stone's page on my Ancestry.com in case you have Ancestry.com

Link to Sheffield Stone Find A Grave Memorial
and more links to Stone family members. 

His brothers were:

Archibald Talbot Stone 1860-1925

Jesse Isaac Stone 1862-1945

Dwight E. Stone 1862-1940

Arthur Grant Stone 1866-

A half sister Mary Stone 1869 was born to

his father's second wife, Mary Bugbee Stone

To his father's third wife, Mary Jane Gardner Stone

were born:

Jasper Decatur Stone 1874-1965

Nettie D. Stone 1876-1904

Henry F. Stone 1884

William Elhanan Stone 1888-1919

Elmer L. Stone 1891-

His parents are buried at Butternut Valley Cemetery north of Garrattsville, NY as are his siblings and many other Stone relatives. His Grandfather was the Rev. Isaac Stone who spent his life as a Methodist minister in northern NY state.