The website includes information about the Stone family and the Rhodes family, including an evolving story about descendants of John Stone of Clayhanger, Devon, who died in 1588 and Thomas Rhodes, 1718 – 1783 of Ash-next-Ridley, Kent.
The Stone Family page has received substantial updates and additional charts and reports since its beginning.
Tracing the Rhodes family of Kent and the Riley family of Staffordshire prior to the 18c has been more difficult.
James Scott Stone, 1839 – 1896. The father of John Charles Stone
Charles R. Rhodes, 1867 – 1911, married Mary Quarters Riley. They had three sons and one daughter, Mary Quarters Rhodes.
John Stone’s eldest son Richard Stone’s six children from his first marriage with Emma Sedgeborrow were baptized in the Clayhanger church (shown below) between 1602 and 1612. Some of the descendants immigrated to Albion, Illinois in 1818. Two of his three children from his second marriage with Eleanor Slocombe were baptized here in 1640 and 1647. Some of the descendants immigrated to Australia and New Zealand in the 1830s.
Home of the Stone family. Some of the tombstones that are visible memorialize members of our family.
John C. Stone II (1931-2022) created this site starting in 2013. With his passing in 2022, his son, John Stone III, and daughter, Lisa Stone, will work on updating this website with additional technical updates, help from other descendants, and other content as available.