Jonas Stone

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Jonas Stone & Margaret MacDonald

Jonas Stone, named for his grandfather - Captain Jonas Stone of Trepassey NL was born in 1799 and he accompanied his parents as an infant from Newfoundland to Lynche's River in July of 1800. He married Margaret "Peggy" MacDonald of Soldier's Cove and they had at least 6 children before Jonas died sometime before 1838, as on that census report, his wife is listed as the widow, as was the pioneer George's wife Mary Doody.

Jonas and Peggy resided in the original Stone cabin after his father built a bigger house on the 1809 grant. The point of land just west of the bridge was known as"Peggy's Point". Jonas eventually received his own land grant up the southeast slope from the inlet of 200 acres in 1834. Peggy was more comfortable down at the shore, so Old George offered a switch with Jonas for the two equal sized grants. Later on his sons Maurice and John Henry would settle up the south slope, where the Post Road eventually cut through, and Jonas' descendants remained for generations "at the Bridge."

He continued the cooper trade learned from his father and he fished, farmed and cut timber as did "Old George". There is quite a bit of mention of Jonas in Lawrence Kavanagh's Store records for 1819/1820. He liked his tobacco and rum - especially his rum. He and George landed large catches they sold to Kavanagh, as well did work for him in exchange for goods. There are records of Jonas cutting timber at River Denys and Arichat, as well as mowing hay and so on. Though Jonas died a relative young man, wife Peggy raised the family and lived on past 95yrs of age, ending her days with their second born son John "Johnny Peggy" and wife Sarah Campbell...

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(J&M) 1 George Stone b in 1822, d Jan 31, 1888

"Jean George" as he was known at some point,stayed at Lynche's River after his marriage in 1843 to Mary Pierro of L'Ardoise. It is believed that they moved to Rocky Bay by 1845, however records show that their first two children were born at Lynche's River or Salmon River (Barra Head) and baptized at L'Ardoise.

The family did relocate to Arichat after 1850, where some of his descendants still live. Jean George is shown on Census reports to have been a farmer, a labourer and a blacksmith. Several of their children moved back to the St Peter's area after marriage, Henry married Josephine Jackson. James moved into the house of Minnie Stone Cameron and her husband Malcolm. Mary was her grandmother. Mary died at St Peters on May 22. 1909 at 80years of age.

(G) 1 George Stone - b 1845, d April 30, 1888

He married Margaret Doyle in D'Escousse, Feb 5, 1877

(GSj) 1 Jonas Stone b Aug 19, 1877
(GSj) 2 Daniel Leo Stone b April 25, 1879

(GSj) 3 Charles Joseph Stone - b Nov 02, 1882

(GSj) Mary Ellen Stone - b 1885

(G) 2 Mary Ann Stone - born 1847

Married George Spry - Police Constable in Arichat

(1) Ann Spry b 1857

(2) John Spry b 1862

(G) 3 John 'Jack' Stone b 1851, d Mar 8, 1926

Married Adele Boudrot Jan 25, 1876 (she died Nov 11, 1910)

 (JJ) 1 John William Stone b Mar 13, 1876 

(JJ) 2 Charles Peter Stone b. August 05, 1877, d 1968 (Arichat)

(1) Married Margaret Ann Boudreau 1901. (2) Marie Josephine Duyon in 1936

i Francis Charles Stone b Dec 11, 1902

ii Joseph Raymond Stone b Jan 4, 1907

iii Marie Alvina Stone b April 6, 1910

iv Anita Stone

v Arthur Stone

vi Wilbert Stone

vii Mary Stone b Sept 25, 1907, d May 25, 1991

Married Thomas Acton on Jan 26 1926

viii John Ernest Stone b Jan 4, 1914, d June 29, 1986

(JJ) 3 Mary Ann (Minnie) Stone b. 1879. m Malcolm Cameron (Northside St Peters) May 8, 1905

Stephen (Stevie) G Cameron - b Oct 1906

Mary C Cameron - b April 1908

(JJ) 4 John Henry Stone b May 10, 1883

(JJ) 5 William Albert Stone b May 20, 1884

(JJ) 6 Adele Alvina Stone b May 21, 1887

 (G) 4 Jonas Stone b 1852

Married (1) Catherine MacDonald, Oct 28, 1872, Arichat

( 2) Ida Boudrot May 4, 1909

(G) 5 Elizabeth Stone b 1854, d prior to 1900

Married Eldridge Kimball on Sept 2, 1888 in Boston she is listed as a seamstress and 32 years old at the time.

John Arthur Eldridge b Nov 20, 1888

There is no sign of Elizabeth of the child from this point. Kimball H Eldridge is a lodger in Boston in 1900 and he died at age 59 in 1905. He was listed as a widower...

(G) 6 William Lawrence Stone b Jan 1857 d Jan 28, 1943

(a) Married Johanna Morrison, Sporting Mountain - 1879

1 George Stone b 1880

(b) Married Mary Ann Gibbs, living in Halifax as of 1891...

(1) William Laurence Stone b 1892 (Halifax)

Married Ella Slavin 1924

(2) Margaret Stone b 1896 (Halifax)

(3) Lillian Marie Stone b 1898

Married Cyril Cushing Oct 18, 1924

(4) John Alfred Stone b Nov 21, 1901

Married Laura Jennie Woods Oct 26, 1923

(G) 7 Margaret Jane Stone  b 1865 - d - 1942, Bristol Maine

She married John Russell Fossett in 1884, Gloucester, MA
1 Sallie M Fossett b 1884, d Oct 19, 1886

2 George M Fossett b Dec 1886

Married Mary Jennie Saulnier

i George R Fossett b 1905, d 1905

ii Katherine M Fossett Carrol M b 1907

Katherine M Carroll 2

Florence Carroll 0

iii George M Fossett b 1909 d 1977

iv Mary D Fossett b 1910

v Robert W Fossett b 1911

vi Mildred E Fossett b 1913

vii Helen M Fossett b 1915 d 1971

Married Joseph J Sousa

viii Marion W Fossett b 1918

ix Charlotte C Fossett b 1922

Married Walter Loder

x Ronald J Fossett b 1924

3 Estelle Fossett b Jan 1890 Married Robert Boutchia

John Matthew Boutchia b Jan 1, 1907, d 1973

William Boutchia b Dec 6, 1908

Albert M Boutchia b May 29, 1910

4 John Russell Fossett b July 3, 1892

Pricilla Fossett b

5 Ella M Fossett b Nov 24, 1894, d July 10, 1896

6 Lottie May Fossett b March 10, 1897

Married Frank Slaney

7 Albert Fossett b Jan 3, 1900, d March 1977

(G) 8 Patrick James Stone - b Oct 20, 1868 d Nov 20, 1940 at St Peters James was living in St Peters staying with his niece Minnie Cameron at the time of the 1911 Canadian Census

(G) 9 Henry William Stone b Aug 10, 1874 d Aug 4, 1956 in Halifax Married Josephine Jackson on July 7, 1908 at St Peters. Moved to Halifax sometime after the 1911 census list. 

1 Mary K Stone b 1908
Married Albert Hayward Sept 30, 1929, Halifax

2 Anna M Stone b Sept 1909

3 Lillian Cecilia Stone b May 1911

Married Albert William Hunt on May 10, 1930, Halifax

4 Stella Isabelle Stone b 1917

Married Gordon Patton Jan 9, 1935

(G) 10 Mary Stone born July 4, 1877 Married Theophil Boudreau  Jan 19, 1909 ______________________________________________________ 

(J&M) 2 John Stone b 1826
Became known as "Johnny Peggy". He married Sarah Campbell, daughter of the great fiddler Donald Campbell of Lynche's River and granddaughter of John Campbell, the settler, who played the fiddle at Lawrence Kavanagh's place for Governor James Kempt of Halifax during the 1820s in the hope that the government would grant him a lot of land at Lynche's River.They did. In the mid 1860s John is listed as an Innkeeper, the story being after building a bigger home, the old cabin was turned into a small inn along the Corbett's Cove Road. Though known locally as Johnny Peggy, in his last will and testament he is identified as John Stone "The Bridge" as several of his children, including daughter Margaret, were called.

(JP) 1 John Stone - b 1851 - d -1941

Jack claimed innocence in a case of fathering a child with widow Sarah Kavanagh, but was forced to marry her by the law - This is from a notice in Gloucester Mass...Gloucester, May 12, 1893. John Stone, Gloucester, 30 years, born St. Peter's, Cape Breton

      s/o John Stone and Sarah Campbell MARRIED Sarah J. Kavanagh, Gloucester, 2nd marriage, 28, domestic born St. Peter's, Cape Breton - d/o John McDonald and Catherine McIssac.

James Dadis, Justice of the Peace, Gloucester.

Jack never lived with her once they returned from Massachusetts. He lived his life with his sister Maggie and her husband John McDonald. He was known locally as a moonshiner and bootlegger...One of the surviving tales about Jack is in relation to his time fishing out of Gloucester, as many of the Lynche's River Stones would do. Apparently after one of his trips to the States, the Shanahan boys, who were his first cousins, came upon some timbers he had cut and peeled for fence poles, which he left until his return later on. They not only took the poles, but they built a cabin and commenced to squatting on his land. We don't know how this turned out or how they were received by Jack upon his return to Nova Scotia...

(JP) 2 Jonas Stone b 1856

Married Maggie McDonald in St Peter's CB on Jan 23, 1894

On the 1891 census, he is listed as having an "unsound mind" There is no sign of him or Maggie after their marriage...

(JP) 3 Mary Ann Stone b - 1858 d 1886 Married Joseph Johnston of Red Islands

James Johnston b July 21, 1882

Mary C Johnston b Sept 19, 1884

At the time of the 1891 census, Mary is 6 years old and living with her grandparents John & Sarah. Her mother died in 1886. Her father Joseph Johnston remarried to a wife Catherine and by the time of the 1901 Census, had 3 more young children. He is listed as a Carpenter at the time. Son James is a school teacher...

 (JP) 4 Daniel Bernard Stone b - Jan 1860 - d Sept 2, 1923 Born Donald Bernard, "Dan B" as he was known, became a lock keeper and eventually lock master at St Peter's Canal. Likely named for his grandfather, the fiddler Donald Campbell, Dan at some point moved the old house from Peggy's Point, across the ice to where it is still situated today along the road from St Peter's to Sydney. The house, along with several others still standing, was built by his cousin Angus Campbell. A big man, he married twice, the second time, after the death of his wife Margaret Kyte. He met his second wife Catherine McKinnon of Sydney, at the canal where the tour boat she worked on - The Marion - used to regularly come through the locks. His picture is in the background of this page...

Married Margaret Kyte - 4 Children...

(DB& M) 1 Joseph Bernard Stone - b June 14, 1894 - d Jan 12, 1954

married - Mary Margaret (Minnie) Sampson
(JB) John Daniel Stone b Dec 1941 (JB) Mary Stone - married Gary Batchilder - b Feb 1943

(JB) Joseph "Joey" Stone b 1944

(JB) Robert "Bob" Stone b 1946 (JB) Theresa Stone - married Ron Bent

(DB&M) 2 'Captain' Robert W Stone b 1895 - d 1979

Married Christina 'Tina' Martell (1894 - 1964)

(RW) 1 Daniel Bernard Stone b 1916 d 2004 (RW) 2 Margaret Kathleen Stone b Feb 16, 1919 d Aug 21, 2009 Married Harry Cotton

Richard Cotton

William Cotton

Robert Cotton

Pam Cotton

(RW) 3 Vincent Robert (Bobbie) Stone - born May 2, 1920 - died Oct 8, 1942

(RW) 4 John Henry (Johnny) Stone - b Dec 26, 1922 - d Sept 23, 2003

Married Beatrice Sampson

JH 1 Maura Stone (Poirier)

JH 2 Denise Stone (Larry Mombourquette)

JH 3 Janice Stone (ErvinTouesnard)

JH 4 Brent Stone

JH 5 Gisele Stone (Fraser McPhee)

JH 6 Pierre Stone

JH 7 Paula Stone (Jerome Sampson)

JH 8 Tanya Stone

(RW) 5 Joseph Stone b 1927

wife Monica

Joseph "Joey" Stone

(RW) 6 David (Davy) F Stone b 1930, d 2007

Wife Myrna Justine Tina Stone

David Stone Jr

(RW) 7 Donna Agnes Stone b 1934 m Alfred Leo Cote, 1953

Errol Keats b 1954 married Nelda Bray

Erin Mary b 1986

Colleen Donna b 1993

Gloria Ann b 1955 married Bernie McDonnell

Corrine Elizabeth b 1960 – d 1964

Darlene Theresa b 1963

Claude Alfred b 1965

Tyrone Daniel b 1968

Adrian Joseph b 1970

Vernon Nicholas b 1971

Jason Shawn b 1974 d 2010

(DB&M) 3 Dan John Stone b Sept 23, 1897 died in infancy

(DB&M) 4 Mary Della Stone - born about Aug 19, 1899

Married Morris Peters of L'Ardoise and lived in Halifax

Second Wife - Catherine MacKinnon - St Rose, Inverness County, daughter of Dan "Ban" MacKinnon, a great Cape Breton Fiddler.Married on July 2, 1905. Catherine died on March 20, 1942 

(DB&C) 5 Agnes Isabelle Stone b - October 7, 1906
Agnes never married. She lived in Boston and worked at the Wrentham State School of Mass. and one of the children there was , one of the Kennedy's . It was a place for children with special needs. When she retired she got a nice letter from the Kennedy's for her part in working there.

(DB&C) 6 Daniel Charles (Charlie) Stone - b 1908 - d Sept 19, 1989

Married Eva McDonald grand daughter of John Rory McDonald, who married Kate Stone, oldest daughter of John Henry Stone & Mary Harris

(C&E) 1 Francis Muriel 'Frannie' Stone

Married Hughie Campbell of Red Islands

Debbie Campbell

Bradley Campbell

Gary Campbell

Patricia Campbell

Marty Campbell

Verna Campbell

Wendy Campbell

Lisa Campbell

Douglas Campbell

Johnny Campbell

Glan Campbell

Angela Campbell

(C&E) 2 Mary Elizabeth Stone (Bennett)

Brian Bennett

(C&E) 3 Joseph Winston 'Sonny' Stone m Gloria

Joanne Stone

Charlene Stone

Katie Stone - adopted after the death of mother - Sharon

Shawna Stone - adopted after the death of mother - Sharon

(C&E) 4 Mary Catherine Gladys Stone m Gordon Cote

Vernon Roger Stone b 1960

Glen Stone

Anne Curatolo

Darren Cote

Dwayne Cote

(C&E) 5 Charles Gordon Stone

(C&E) 6 Wayne Bernard Stone
(C&E) 7 Sharon Anne Stone b 1948 d 1988
Vernon Stone b 1969 (Toronto)

Katie Stone - adopted by Uncle Joe "Sonny" & Gloria Stone

Shawna Stone - adopted by Uncle Joe "Sonny" & Gloria Stone

 (C&E) 8 Vernon Francis Stone b 1950 d 1960

(C&E) 9 Carolyn Marie Stone
Son - John Wayne Landry

(C&E) 10 Gail Agnes Stone

(JP) 5 Margaret Isabella "Maggie " Stone - b 1863
Married John Michael (Jack Mick) McDonald

(JP) 6 Catherine Marie Stone - b 1866

Married James J McNeil (farmer) in Boston, Massachusetts - Sept 26, 1889 listed as a dressmaker age 23 on that day... James was also from CB

1 John J McNeil b 1890, d Aug 17, 1891

2 Mary Frances McNeil b June 24, 1892 - married John J Leonard in 1909

1 James E Leonard b 1910

2 Josephine Leonard b 1915 (1930 US Census)

3 Josephine Jane McNeil b March 13, 1894 married Novik J Devine

1 James Frank Devine b 1925 (1930 US Census)

4 Robert L McNeil b July 17, 1896 wife Annabella McNeill b 1903 (1930 US Census)

5 Leo B McNeil b Aug 26, 1899 - d June 26, 1903

6 George J McNeil b Sept 26, 1902 - d July 1906

7 Margaret McNeil b April 17, 1906

(JP) Robert Stone - b 1867 Robert last appears on the 1881 census report at 13 years of age. He does not show on the 1891 census...

(JP) Lawrence "Harry" B Stone b - 1870 Married an Ida Ellen or Lillian Beckwith in Lynn Mass on Jan 1, 1900 - Lawrence was a carpenter and listed as a bridge builder at the time of the wedding. In subsequent child birth records, he is listed as a foreman and carpenter. He died at Marblehead Massachusetts on March 17, 1930. Ida dies in 1916 and he remarries. On the 1920 listing, his wife is down as Daisy Stone...

Infant Stone b Oct 14, 1900

Charles J Stone - b 1901 d 1975 Marries a Ruth Clark 1907 - 1989

James Lawrence Stone - b Jan 27, 1904, d Mar 20, 1930???

Willard Stone - b Aug 19, 1905

Dorothy Evelyn Stone b Aug 19, 1905 - d Nov 1, 1905

Theodore Daniel Francis Stone - b June 19, 1907, d 1966

Chester Leo Stone - b Dec 21, 1908

John Alvin Stone - b March 27, 1910

Josephine Veronica Stone - b July 30, 1912

Frank S Stone - b Oct 27, 1913 - died on Dec 1, 1914

Ellen Mary Stone b Nov 18, 1914, d Jan 19, 1931

At the time of the 1930 US census - Lawrence B has died, there is no trace of his second wife Daisy either. The 8 surviving Stone children, ages 29 to 15, are living together in Boston with Charles J Stone down as head of the household...

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(J&M) 3 Mary Stone b March 31, 1827

Married Patrick Shannahan - Jan 7, 1851 - at the time of the 1911 census, Mary is a widow and living with her son Patrick. She died on Nov 9, 1914 in Arichat CB at the age of 87yrs...

(P&M) 1 Elizabeth Shannahan - Sept 26, 1851

(P&M) 2 John Shannahan b 1854

Married Maria McNeil b 1865

John L Shannahan b Dec 2, 1886

James P Shannahan b Dec 29, 1888 died on Sept 15, 1957 in Canso NS. He was a Marine Engineer - he was 68 yrs.

Augustus "Gus" D Shannahan b Nov 2, 1890 Married Mary B Coffey - lived in Sydney CB

Bernard M Shannahan b July 7, 1893

Michael F Shannahan b Oct 2, 1895

Joseph W Shannahan b Sept 2, 1898

Raymond Shannahan b Sept 1902

Herman Shannahan b Feb 1905

Sarah A Shannahan b Oct 1907

(P&M) 3 Peter Shannahan b June 6, 1858 Married Annie McDonald - Peter died on May 7, 1923 from TB

George Shannahan b July 26, 1894

John Shannahan b Aug 1901

Peter Shanahan b July 1903

Dave Shanahan July 1905

Patrick Shanahan Nov 1908

(P&M) 4 David Shannahan b 1865

(P&M) 5 Mary Ann Shannahan b 1867

• (P&M) 6 Annabell Shanahan b 1869 - d 1944

Married Jonas P Stone b Dec 1857

Herbert J L Stone b Aug 1896

Florence May Stone b Oct 1897

Patrick Jonas Stone b Oct 1899

James Chester Stone b Aug 1905

Peter Wilfred Stone b Feb 1908

• See John Henry & Mary Harris Page for more...

(P&M) 7 Patrick Shannahan b 1871

(P&M) 8 James Shannahan b 1875 ________________________________________________

(J&M) 4 William Jonas Stone - b 1830 - d 1871

never married

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(J&M) 5 Catherine Stone - b 1831 d Oct 20, 1922 age 90

married John Campbell, son of Donald Campbell and a brother to Sarah Campbell who married her brother 'Johnny Peggy' - At the time of the 1911 Census, Catherine is still alive, living with her sons John L and Dan (Donald). She is listed as 70, however she would have been 80 at the time...

(C&J) 1 John Lucius Campbell - b Dec 11, 1855

(C&J) 2 Mary Ann Campbell Sept - b 27, 1857

(C&J) 3 Margaret Genevieve Campbell - b Jan 1860

Marries John Callaghan on Oct 1, 1906 (1st cousins)

(C&J) 4 Donald "Dan L" Campbell - b 1864 d Feb 22, 1922

He was single and a carpenter at the time of his death...

(C&J) 5 Catherine Campbell - b 1866

She is alive and single at the time of the 1901 Census

(C&J) 6 William Jonas Campbell - b 1868

(C&J) 7 Elizabeth Campbell - b 1870

(C&J) 8 Sarah Campbell - b 1873

Married Michael "Mickey Norman" McDonald

(1) Joseph Leo McDonald b 1902

(2) John Norman McDonald b 1904

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(J&M) 6 Isabelle Stone - b 1833 - married John Callaghan

(J&I) 1 John Odilon Callaghan - b Oct 9, 1854

marries Margaret Campbell on Oct 1, 1906 (1st cousins)

(J&I) 2 Robert J Callaghan - b 1857 - Mail driver at Sydney at 1881 Census

(J&I) 3 James G Callaghan - b 1859 - Mail driver at Sydney at 1881 Census

(J&I) 4Margaret Callaghan - b 1862 - d 1867 at fifteen years

(J&I) 5 John Callaghan - b Nov 24, 1872

at 1911 Census taking - Isabelle is 82 years, husband John not listed, son James G is lodging with another family - there is no sign of Robert

Can not find him or his wife on the 1871 Census of Canada. He may be dead by 1871, but she should be on it, just can't find them.

His wife's entry on the 1881 Census of Canada lists her as a widow.

His wife's entry on the 1891 Census of Canada lists her as a widow.

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