George Stoneman Sr. and wife Catherine Rebecca Cheney share a family monument here with son General Gov. George Stoneman Jr.
George Stoneman, Sr. -
Son of Richard Stoneman, of Torrington, Devon, England, and Mary Perkins, of Foster, Providence, Rhode Island. His parents had been married 31 December 1797, in New Berlin, Chenago county, New York. He was the eldest child of their 10 children, born 9 January 1799, in New Berlin, Chenango county, New York. He was named after his Uncle George, a Lieutenant in the British Navy, under Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, and had been killed at the battle of the Nile, which took place from 1 to 3 August 1798, in Aboukir Bay near Alexandria, Egypt. George lived his entire life in the State of New York, in New Berlin, Ellerly, Jamestown and Busti. He was a farmer, a prominent lumberman, and Justice of the Peace. He was considered by some to be eccentric, when he built a saw mill without a close source of water, and again, when he constructed a horse-boat upon two huge dug out canoes. He married Catherine Rebecca Cheney, on 22 July 1821. They were both of English descent. The Stoneman's were early settlers of Chenango county, New York, and the Cheney's were an early Rhode Island family. He and his wife were blessed with eight extraordinary children. They had four sons and four daughters. Their eldest child, a son, George Jr., named after his father, would someday graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point; becoming a distinguished cavalry officer in the Civil War and afterwards Governor of the State of California. George Stoneman, Sr., died on 6 August 1877, in Busti, Chautauqua county, New York. Interment was in the Stoneman family plot, at Bentley Cemetery in Lakewood, Chautauqua County, New York.
Submitted by Judy Froehlich
George Stoneman, Sr. -
Son of Richard Stoneman, of Torrington, Devon, England, and Mary Perkins, of Foster, Providence, Rhode Island. His parents had been married 31 December 1797, in New Berlin, Chenago county, New York. He was the eldest child of their 10 children, born 9 January 1799, in New Berlin, Chenango county, New York. He was named after his Uncle George, a Lieutenant in the British Navy, under Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, and had been killed at the battle of the Nile, which took place from 1 to 3 August 1798, in Aboukir Bay near Alexandria, Egypt. George lived his entire life in the State of New York, in New Berlin, Ellerly, Jamestown and Busti. He was a farmer, a prominent lumberman, and Justice of the Peace. He was considered by some to be eccentric, when he built a saw mill without a close source of water, and again, when he constructed a horse-boat upon two huge dug out canoes. He married Catherine Rebecca Cheney, on 22 July 1821. They were both of English descent. The Stoneman's were early settlers of Chenango county, New York, and the Cheney's were an early Rhode Island family. He and his wife were blessed with eight extraordinary children. They had four sons and four daughters. Their eldest child, a son, George Jr., named after his father, would someday graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point; becoming a distinguished cavalry officer in the Civil War and afterwards Governor of the State of California. George Stoneman, Sr., died on 6 August 1877, in Busti, Chautauqua county, New York. Interment was in the Stoneman family plot, at Bentley Cemetery in Lakewood, Chautauqua County, New York.
Submitted by Judy Froehlich
George Stoneman Sr. and wife Catherine Rebecca Cheney share a family monument here with son General Gov. George Stoneman Jr.
George Stoneman, Sr. -
Son of Richard Stoneman, of Torrington, Devon, England, and Mary Perkins, of Foster, Providence, Rhode Island. His parents had been married 31 December 1797, in New Berlin, Chenago county, New York. He was the eldest child of their 10 children, born 9 January 1799, in New Berlin, Chenango county, New York. He was named after his Uncle George, a Lieutenant in the British Navy, under Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, and had been killed at the battle of the Nile, which took place from 1 to 3 August 1798, in Aboukir Bay near Alexandria, Egypt. George lived his entire life in the State of New York, in New Berlin, Ellerly, Jamestown and Busti. He was a farmer, a prominent lumberman, and Justice of the Peace. He was considered by some to be eccentric, when he built a saw mill without a close source of water, and again, when he constructed a horse-boat upon two huge dug out canoes. He married Catherine Rebecca Cheney, on 22 July 1821. They were both of English descent. The Stoneman's were early settlers of Chenango county, New York, and the Cheney's were an early Rhode Island family. He and his wife were blessed with eight extraordinary children. They had four sons and four daughters. Their eldest child, a son, George Jr., named after his father, would someday graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point; becoming a distinguished cavalry officer in the Civil War and afterwards Governor of the State of California. George Stoneman, Sr., died on 6 August 1877, in Busti, Chautauqua county, New York. Interment was in the Stoneman family plot, at Bentley Cemetery in Lakewood, Chautauqua County, New York.
Submitted by Judy Froehlich
George Stoneman, Sr. -
Son of Richard Stoneman, of Torrington, Devon, England, and Mary Perkins, of Foster, Providence, Rhode Island. His parents had been married 31 December 1797, in New Berlin, Chenago county, New York. He was the eldest child of their 10 children, born 9 January 1799, in New Berlin, Chenango county, New York. He was named after his Uncle George, a Lieutenant in the British Navy, under Rear Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson, and had been killed at the battle of the Nile, which took place from 1 to 3 August 1798, in Aboukir Bay near Alexandria, Egypt. George lived his entire life in the State of New York, in New Berlin, Ellerly, Jamestown and Busti. He was a farmer, a prominent lumberman, and Justice of the Peace. He was considered by some to be eccentric, when he built a saw mill without a close source of water, and again, when he constructed a horse-boat upon two huge dug out canoes. He married Catherine Rebecca Cheney, on 22 July 1821. They were both of English descent. The Stoneman's were early settlers of Chenango county, New York, and the Cheney's were an early Rhode Island family. He and his wife were blessed with eight extraordinary children. They had four sons and four daughters. Their eldest child, a son, George Jr., named after his father, would someday graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point; becoming a distinguished cavalry officer in the Civil War and afterwards Governor of the State of California. George Stoneman, Sr., died on 6 August 1877, in Busti, Chautauqua county, New York. Interment was in the Stoneman family plot, at Bentley Cemetery in Lakewood, Chautauqua County, New York.
Submitted by Judy Froehlich
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