Name also spelled Orren Stone, and sometimes Orin and Orrin.
He was a son of Charlotte Hall Stone and Capt. Simon Stone of Windsor, Massachusetts, born into a long line of farming families. In the 1820 census he was 24, living with his widowed mother and siblings in Windsor. On 8 and 9 September 1820 he registered in Hinsdale and in Windsor respectively his intention to marry Joanna Turner of Hinsdale, Massachusetts, and she soon after became his wife. They resided in Hinsdale until around 1827, when they moved to Savoy where Joanna's parents, Hannah (Austin) and Elijah Turner (a Revolutionary War veteran), had settled. Oren's siblings and his widowed mother all seem to have moved west to Monroe County, New York with several of their Hall cousins sometime around the mid-1820s.
On 10 March 1824 Oren sold all of his interest in the real estate that he had inherited from his father and from his deceased brother, Lyman, to his brother, Ira Stone, of Windsor, for $200 (Book C, page 612, Berkshire Co. Registry of Deeds, Adams, Mass.). As a married man with two or three young sons to take care of, it is not surprising he needed the money.
On 22 January 1827 Oren Stone of Hinsdale bought from Rufus and Melinda Cain of Savoy about 50 acres (one-half of Lot 36) in Savoy for $152 (Bk 33, p 120). By the following April Oren Stone and his wife Joanna Stone mortgaged their Savoy property to Ira Bates for $150, to be repaid in one year with interest (Bk 30, p 368). On 19 December 1828 Oren Stone sold his land in Savoy to Charles Hathaway (perhaps a relative by marriage to his wife's family) for $152 (Bk 36, p 40). This seems to have concluded Oren's foray into land ownership. His wife, Joanna Stone, signed to relinquish her right of dower on the mortgage and on the deed selling the property.
The family stayed in Savoy through the 1840 census, when there were 10 people in his household, living near Joanna's parents. Oren and Joanna had at least six children: Henry H. Stone (1824-1882), William A. "Billy" Stone (c.1828-1894), Ward Nelson Stone (c.1831-1914), Francis Ebenezer "Frank" Stone (1833-1906), S. Elizabeth Stone Janes (c.1837-1914) and Ira Newell Stone (c.1841-1863). Unfortunately none of these births seem to have been registered in church or town records in Savoy, Windsor, Peru, or the surrounding areas--or at least cannot be found extant these days.
Tragically for her family, Joanna died 18 March 1846 at the age of 46. She was buried in the Turner cemetery (today at Savoy Center), next to her father. Her widowed mother, who might have helped raise Joanna and Oren's children, died just six months later.
The 1850 census finds the Stone children scattered around western Massachusetts, and Oren, their father, nowhere to be found. The sons, aged about 26 to 10, were all living in different households working as laborers on farms in Worthington, Cummington, and Windsor, and Elizabeth, at age 12, seems to have been sent to live in a boarding house to attend school in Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
On the 1860 census Oren Stone was listed as a "Pauper," age 63, living with farmer Lewiston Hollis and his wife and two young sons in Oren's hometown of Windsor. As was the custom, the Hollises were probably given a stipend from the town of Windsor for Oren's room and board as an "outdoor pauper" settlement (as opposed to his being committed as an "indoor pauper" in a state institution or poor house), while Oren contributed work on their farm to the best of his ability. The sons who had been living in Windsor ten years earlier had cleared out to Middlefield and Peru.
Oren's youngest son, Newell, died of consumption while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War and, according to newspaper coverage, Oren attended the funeral held in the Peru, Massachusetts church on 5 April 1863, along with his children Ward, Frank, and Lizzie. Before the end of that month neighbors of Oren's in Windsor had filed in court to have a guardian appointed for him. In July 1863 the Probate Court of Berkshire County found Oren Stone to be an insane person incapable of taking care of himself. He was appointed a court guardian in Windsor (one Henry Winslow, who had filed the case) and his property was appraised and disbursed (totalling $125 in personal estate, money "due from the U.S. to his son," Newell, on 9 January 1864).
Oren cannot be found in the 1865 Massachusetts state census index, nor does he appear listed on the original images for Windsor, Mass. On the 1870 census Oren Stone was listed as living with Ward Ford and his wife Mary, farmers in Windsor. Oren was listed there as a "Farmer," age 74. On the 1880 census he was living with Timothy Leonard and his wife and grown daughter in Windsor, and was described as a "Boarding Pauper," age 84. In the 1884-85 Berkshire County business directory, he was listed on page 468, Windsor, Mass.: "Stone Orin, (Savoy) r 9 [Road 9], laborer." It would appear from these few available records that Oren Stone spent most of his later years as a pauper (suffering from mental problems?) boarding and laboring with unrelated families in his home town, while his surviving children would move and settle elsewhere (Henry in Franklin County, Ward in Peru, Frank in Becket, Lizzie in Worcester, and Billy a farm laborer migrating from town to town).
According to his death certificate filed in Windsor, Mass. on 15 February 1889, "Orren" Stone died in Windsor on 26 February 1888, of "inanition" (a state of exhaustion due to prolonged undernutrition). He was 92 years 7 months old, and noted as a Pauper. His burial was in Savoy, Massachusetts. On this evidence we assume him to be buried in a pauper's unmarked grave, perhaps near his wife, Joanna, and sons, Henry and Newell, at the Turner Cemetery in Savoy Center. No obituary or gravemarker for him has ever yet been found.
According to J. Gardner Bartlett's classic book, Simon Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass. 1320-1926, Oren Stone died in Windsor, Massachusetts on 25 February 1888 [sic]. In Bartlett's book, the following is all the mention of him, whom Bartlett links to his father, Capt. Simon Stone, and seven generations of Simon Stones back to the original immigrant from Essex, England in 1635:
"ORREN, b. 8 Aug. 1795; resided in Windsor, where he d. 25 Feb. 1888. On 9 Sept. 1820 he entered his marriage intentions with Joanna Turner of Hinsdale, Mass. Record of family not obtained." (p. 327).
He was a son of Charlotte Hall Stone and Capt. Simon Stone of Windsor, Massachusetts, born into a long line of farming families. In the 1820 census he was 24, living with his widowed mother and siblings in Windsor. On 8 and 9 September 1820 he registered in Hinsdale and in Windsor respectively his intention to marry Joanna Turner of Hinsdale, Massachusetts, and she soon after became his wife. They resided in Hinsdale until around 1827, when they moved to Savoy where Joanna's parents, Hannah (Austin) and Elijah Turner (a Revolutionary War veteran), had settled. Oren's siblings and his widowed mother all seem to have moved west to Monroe County, New York with several of their Hall cousins sometime around the mid-1820s.
On 10 March 1824 Oren sold all of his interest in the real estate that he had inherited from his father and from his deceased brother, Lyman, to his brother, Ira Stone, of Windsor, for $200 (Book C, page 612, Berkshire Co. Registry of Deeds, Adams, Mass.). As a married man with two or three young sons to take care of, it is not surprising he needed the money.
On 22 January 1827 Oren Stone of Hinsdale bought from Rufus and Melinda Cain of Savoy about 50 acres (one-half of Lot 36) in Savoy for $152 (Bk 33, p 120). By the following April Oren Stone and his wife Joanna Stone mortgaged their Savoy property to Ira Bates for $150, to be repaid in one year with interest (Bk 30, p 368). On 19 December 1828 Oren Stone sold his land in Savoy to Charles Hathaway (perhaps a relative by marriage to his wife's family) for $152 (Bk 36, p 40). This seems to have concluded Oren's foray into land ownership. His wife, Joanna Stone, signed to relinquish her right of dower on the mortgage and on the deed selling the property.
The family stayed in Savoy through the 1840 census, when there were 10 people in his household, living near Joanna's parents. Oren and Joanna had at least six children: Henry H. Stone (1824-1882), William A. "Billy" Stone (c.1828-1894), Ward Nelson Stone (c.1831-1914), Francis Ebenezer "Frank" Stone (1833-1906), S. Elizabeth Stone Janes (c.1837-1914) and Ira Newell Stone (c.1841-1863). Unfortunately none of these births seem to have been registered in church or town records in Savoy, Windsor, Peru, or the surrounding areas--or at least cannot be found extant these days.
Tragically for her family, Joanna died 18 March 1846 at the age of 46. She was buried in the Turner cemetery (today at Savoy Center), next to her father. Her widowed mother, who might have helped raise Joanna and Oren's children, died just six months later.
The 1850 census finds the Stone children scattered around western Massachusetts, and Oren, their father, nowhere to be found. The sons, aged about 26 to 10, were all living in different households working as laborers on farms in Worthington, Cummington, and Windsor, and Elizabeth, at age 12, seems to have been sent to live in a boarding house to attend school in Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
On the 1860 census Oren Stone was listed as a "Pauper," age 63, living with farmer Lewiston Hollis and his wife and two young sons in Oren's hometown of Windsor. As was the custom, the Hollises were probably given a stipend from the town of Windsor for Oren's room and board as an "outdoor pauper" settlement (as opposed to his being committed as an "indoor pauper" in a state institution or poor house), while Oren contributed work on their farm to the best of his ability. The sons who had been living in Windsor ten years earlier had cleared out to Middlefield and Peru.
Oren's youngest son, Newell, died of consumption while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War and, according to newspaper coverage, Oren attended the funeral held in the Peru, Massachusetts church on 5 April 1863, along with his children Ward, Frank, and Lizzie. Before the end of that month neighbors of Oren's in Windsor had filed in court to have a guardian appointed for him. In July 1863 the Probate Court of Berkshire County found Oren Stone to be an insane person incapable of taking care of himself. He was appointed a court guardian in Windsor (one Henry Winslow, who had filed the case) and his property was appraised and disbursed (totalling $125 in personal estate, money "due from the U.S. to his son," Newell, on 9 January 1864).
Oren cannot be found in the 1865 Massachusetts state census index, nor does he appear listed on the original images for Windsor, Mass. On the 1870 census Oren Stone was listed as living with Ward Ford and his wife Mary, farmers in Windsor. Oren was listed there as a "Farmer," age 74. On the 1880 census he was living with Timothy Leonard and his wife and grown daughter in Windsor, and was described as a "Boarding Pauper," age 84. In the 1884-85 Berkshire County business directory, he was listed on page 468, Windsor, Mass.: "Stone Orin, (Savoy) r 9 [Road 9], laborer." It would appear from these few available records that Oren Stone spent most of his later years as a pauper (suffering from mental problems?) boarding and laboring with unrelated families in his home town, while his surviving children would move and settle elsewhere (Henry in Franklin County, Ward in Peru, Frank in Becket, Lizzie in Worcester, and Billy a farm laborer migrating from town to town).
According to his death certificate filed in Windsor, Mass. on 15 February 1889, "Orren" Stone died in Windsor on 26 February 1888, of "inanition" (a state of exhaustion due to prolonged undernutrition). He was 92 years 7 months old, and noted as a Pauper. His burial was in Savoy, Massachusetts. On this evidence we assume him to be buried in a pauper's unmarked grave, perhaps near his wife, Joanna, and sons, Henry and Newell, at the Turner Cemetery in Savoy Center. No obituary or gravemarker for him has ever yet been found.
According to J. Gardner Bartlett's classic book, Simon Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass. 1320-1926, Oren Stone died in Windsor, Massachusetts on 25 February 1888 [sic]. In Bartlett's book, the following is all the mention of him, whom Bartlett links to his father, Capt. Simon Stone, and seven generations of Simon Stones back to the original immigrant from Essex, England in 1635:
"ORREN, b. 8 Aug. 1795; resided in Windsor, where he d. 25 Feb. 1888. On 9 Sept. 1820 he entered his marriage intentions with Joanna Turner of Hinsdale, Mass. Record of family not obtained." (p. 327).
Name also spelled Orren Stone, and sometimes Orin and Orrin.
He was a son of Charlotte Hall Stone and Capt. Simon Stone of Windsor, Massachusetts, born into a long line of farming families. In the 1820 census he was 24, living with his widowed mother and siblings in Windsor. On 8 and 9 September 1820 he registered in Hinsdale and in Windsor respectively his intention to marry Joanna Turner of Hinsdale, Massachusetts, and she soon after became his wife. They resided in Hinsdale until around 1827, when they moved to Savoy where Joanna's parents, Hannah (Austin) and Elijah Turner (a Revolutionary War veteran), had settled. Oren's siblings and his widowed mother all seem to have moved west to Monroe County, New York with several of their Hall cousins sometime around the mid-1820s.
On 10 March 1824 Oren sold all of his interest in the real estate that he had inherited from his father and from his deceased brother, Lyman, to his brother, Ira Stone, of Windsor, for $200 (Book C, page 612, Berkshire Co. Registry of Deeds, Adams, Mass.). As a married man with two or three young sons to take care of, it is not surprising he needed the money.
On 22 January 1827 Oren Stone of Hinsdale bought from Rufus and Melinda Cain of Savoy about 50 acres (one-half of Lot 36) in Savoy for $152 (Bk 33, p 120). By the following April Oren Stone and his wife Joanna Stone mortgaged their Savoy property to Ira Bates for $150, to be repaid in one year with interest (Bk 30, p 368). On 19 December 1828 Oren Stone sold his land in Savoy to Charles Hathaway (perhaps a relative by marriage to his wife's family) for $152 (Bk 36, p 40). This seems to have concluded Oren's foray into land ownership. His wife, Joanna Stone, signed to relinquish her right of dower on the mortgage and on the deed selling the property.
The family stayed in Savoy through the 1840 census, when there were 10 people in his household, living near Joanna's parents. Oren and Joanna had at least six children: Henry H. Stone (1824-1882), William A. "Billy" Stone (c.1828-1894), Ward Nelson Stone (c.1831-1914), Francis Ebenezer "Frank" Stone (1833-1906), S. Elizabeth Stone Janes (c.1837-1914) and Ira Newell Stone (c.1841-1863). Unfortunately none of these births seem to have been registered in church or town records in Savoy, Windsor, Peru, or the surrounding areas--or at least cannot be found extant these days.
Tragically for her family, Joanna died 18 March 1846 at the age of 46. She was buried in the Turner cemetery (today at Savoy Center), next to her father. Her widowed mother, who might have helped raise Joanna and Oren's children, died just six months later.
The 1850 census finds the Stone children scattered around western Massachusetts, and Oren, their father, nowhere to be found. The sons, aged about 26 to 10, were all living in different households working as laborers on farms in Worthington, Cummington, and Windsor, and Elizabeth, at age 12, seems to have been sent to live in a boarding house to attend school in Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
On the 1860 census Oren Stone was listed as a "Pauper," age 63, living with farmer Lewiston Hollis and his wife and two young sons in Oren's hometown of Windsor. As was the custom, the Hollises were probably given a stipend from the town of Windsor for Oren's room and board as an "outdoor pauper" settlement (as opposed to his being committed as an "indoor pauper" in a state institution or poor house), while Oren contributed work on their farm to the best of his ability. The sons who had been living in Windsor ten years earlier had cleared out to Middlefield and Peru.
Oren's youngest son, Newell, died of consumption while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War and, according to newspaper coverage, Oren attended the funeral held in the Peru, Massachusetts church on 5 April 1863, along with his children Ward, Frank, and Lizzie. Before the end of that month neighbors of Oren's in Windsor had filed in court to have a guardian appointed for him. In July 1863 the Probate Court of Berkshire County found Oren Stone to be an insane person incapable of taking care of himself. He was appointed a court guardian in Windsor (one Henry Winslow, who had filed the case) and his property was appraised and disbursed (totalling $125 in personal estate, money "due from the U.S. to his son," Newell, on 9 January 1864).
Oren cannot be found in the 1865 Massachusetts state census index, nor does he appear listed on the original images for Windsor, Mass. On the 1870 census Oren Stone was listed as living with Ward Ford and his wife Mary, farmers in Windsor. Oren was listed there as a "Farmer," age 74. On the 1880 census he was living with Timothy Leonard and his wife and grown daughter in Windsor, and was described as a "Boarding Pauper," age 84. In the 1884-85 Berkshire County business directory, he was listed on page 468, Windsor, Mass.: "Stone Orin, (Savoy) r 9 [Road 9], laborer." It would appear from these few available records that Oren Stone spent most of his later years as a pauper (suffering from mental problems?) boarding and laboring with unrelated families in his home town, while his surviving children would move and settle elsewhere (Henry in Franklin County, Ward in Peru, Frank in Becket, Lizzie in Worcester, and Billy a farm laborer migrating from town to town).
According to his death certificate filed in Windsor, Mass. on 15 February 1889, "Orren" Stone died in Windsor on 26 February 1888, of "inanition" (a state of exhaustion due to prolonged undernutrition). He was 92 years 7 months old, and noted as a Pauper. His burial was in Savoy, Massachusetts. On this evidence we assume him to be buried in a pauper's unmarked grave, perhaps near his wife, Joanna, and sons, Henry and Newell, at the Turner Cemetery in Savoy Center. No obituary or gravemarker for him has ever yet been found.
According to J. Gardner Bartlett's classic book, Simon Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass. 1320-1926, Oren Stone died in Windsor, Massachusetts on 25 February 1888 [sic]. In Bartlett's book, the following is all the mention of him, whom Bartlett links to his father, Capt. Simon Stone, and seven generations of Simon Stones back to the original immigrant from Essex, England in 1635:
"ORREN, b. 8 Aug. 1795; resided in Windsor, where he d. 25 Feb. 1888. On 9 Sept. 1820 he entered his marriage intentions with Joanna Turner of Hinsdale, Mass. Record of family not obtained." (p. 327).
He was a son of Charlotte Hall Stone and Capt. Simon Stone of Windsor, Massachusetts, born into a long line of farming families. In the 1820 census he was 24, living with his widowed mother and siblings in Windsor. On 8 and 9 September 1820 he registered in Hinsdale and in Windsor respectively his intention to marry Joanna Turner of Hinsdale, Massachusetts, and she soon after became his wife. They resided in Hinsdale until around 1827, when they moved to Savoy where Joanna's parents, Hannah (Austin) and Elijah Turner (a Revolutionary War veteran), had settled. Oren's siblings and his widowed mother all seem to have moved west to Monroe County, New York with several of their Hall cousins sometime around the mid-1820s.
On 10 March 1824 Oren sold all of his interest in the real estate that he had inherited from his father and from his deceased brother, Lyman, to his brother, Ira Stone, of Windsor, for $200 (Book C, page 612, Berkshire Co. Registry of Deeds, Adams, Mass.). As a married man with two or three young sons to take care of, it is not surprising he needed the money.
On 22 January 1827 Oren Stone of Hinsdale bought from Rufus and Melinda Cain of Savoy about 50 acres (one-half of Lot 36) in Savoy for $152 (Bk 33, p 120). By the following April Oren Stone and his wife Joanna Stone mortgaged their Savoy property to Ira Bates for $150, to be repaid in one year with interest (Bk 30, p 368). On 19 December 1828 Oren Stone sold his land in Savoy to Charles Hathaway (perhaps a relative by marriage to his wife's family) for $152 (Bk 36, p 40). This seems to have concluded Oren's foray into land ownership. His wife, Joanna Stone, signed to relinquish her right of dower on the mortgage and on the deed selling the property.
The family stayed in Savoy through the 1840 census, when there were 10 people in his household, living near Joanna's parents. Oren and Joanna had at least six children: Henry H. Stone (1824-1882), William A. "Billy" Stone (c.1828-1894), Ward Nelson Stone (c.1831-1914), Francis Ebenezer "Frank" Stone (1833-1906), S. Elizabeth Stone Janes (c.1837-1914) and Ira Newell Stone (c.1841-1863). Unfortunately none of these births seem to have been registered in church or town records in Savoy, Windsor, Peru, or the surrounding areas--or at least cannot be found extant these days.
Tragically for her family, Joanna died 18 March 1846 at the age of 46. She was buried in the Turner cemetery (today at Savoy Center), next to her father. Her widowed mother, who might have helped raise Joanna and Oren's children, died just six months later.
The 1850 census finds the Stone children scattered around western Massachusetts, and Oren, their father, nowhere to be found. The sons, aged about 26 to 10, were all living in different households working as laborers on farms in Worthington, Cummington, and Windsor, and Elizabeth, at age 12, seems to have been sent to live in a boarding house to attend school in Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
On the 1860 census Oren Stone was listed as a "Pauper," age 63, living with farmer Lewiston Hollis and his wife and two young sons in Oren's hometown of Windsor. As was the custom, the Hollises were probably given a stipend from the town of Windsor for Oren's room and board as an "outdoor pauper" settlement (as opposed to his being committed as an "indoor pauper" in a state institution or poor house), while Oren contributed work on their farm to the best of his ability. The sons who had been living in Windsor ten years earlier had cleared out to Middlefield and Peru.
Oren's youngest son, Newell, died of consumption while serving in the Union Army during the Civil War and, according to newspaper coverage, Oren attended the funeral held in the Peru, Massachusetts church on 5 April 1863, along with his children Ward, Frank, and Lizzie. Before the end of that month neighbors of Oren's in Windsor had filed in court to have a guardian appointed for him. In July 1863 the Probate Court of Berkshire County found Oren Stone to be an insane person incapable of taking care of himself. He was appointed a court guardian in Windsor (one Henry Winslow, who had filed the case) and his property was appraised and disbursed (totalling $125 in personal estate, money "due from the U.S. to his son," Newell, on 9 January 1864).
Oren cannot be found in the 1865 Massachusetts state census index, nor does he appear listed on the original images for Windsor, Mass. On the 1870 census Oren Stone was listed as living with Ward Ford and his wife Mary, farmers in Windsor. Oren was listed there as a "Farmer," age 74. On the 1880 census he was living with Timothy Leonard and his wife and grown daughter in Windsor, and was described as a "Boarding Pauper," age 84. In the 1884-85 Berkshire County business directory, he was listed on page 468, Windsor, Mass.: "Stone Orin, (Savoy) r 9 [Road 9], laborer." It would appear from these few available records that Oren Stone spent most of his later years as a pauper (suffering from mental problems?) boarding and laboring with unrelated families in his home town, while his surviving children would move and settle elsewhere (Henry in Franklin County, Ward in Peru, Frank in Becket, Lizzie in Worcester, and Billy a farm laborer migrating from town to town).
According to his death certificate filed in Windsor, Mass. on 15 February 1889, "Orren" Stone died in Windsor on 26 February 1888, of "inanition" (a state of exhaustion due to prolonged undernutrition). He was 92 years 7 months old, and noted as a Pauper. His burial was in Savoy, Massachusetts. On this evidence we assume him to be buried in a pauper's unmarked grave, perhaps near his wife, Joanna, and sons, Henry and Newell, at the Turner Cemetery in Savoy Center. No obituary or gravemarker for him has ever yet been found.
According to J. Gardner Bartlett's classic book, Simon Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Deacon Simon Stone of Watertown, Mass. 1320-1926, Oren Stone died in Windsor, Massachusetts on 25 February 1888 [sic]. In Bartlett's book, the following is all the mention of him, whom Bartlett links to his father, Capt. Simon Stone, and seven generations of Simon Stones back to the original immigrant from Essex, England in 1635:
"ORREN, b. 8 Aug. 1795; resided in Windsor, where he d. 25 Feb. 1888. On 9 Sept. 1820 he entered his marriage intentions with Joanna Turner of Hinsdale, Mass. Record of family not obtained." (p. 327).
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