Captain R L Stone
Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 December 1884, page 7
NEWPORT
The death of Captain R L Stone was briefly mentioned in
yesterdays ENQUIRER. Mr. Stone was born in Alexandria, Virginia, October
6, 1798 and received his education there. He was wedded to a Miss Sarah
Ainsworth, August 13, 1819, and their union resulted in seven children, three of
whom survive them. The children are R H Stone, jun. of Cincinnati, Mrs.
Woods of Portsmouth and Mrs. E Clark of this city.
Mrs. Stone died about fifteen years since in Dayton Ky. Uncle Dick, as he was familiarly known, came West in the year 1832 and settled in Fulton and has resided in this vicinity every since. In his young days he was in the hat business, which he abandoned and went into the steamboat business. He followed that until he became too feeble to give it the attention it needed.
Although eighty-six years of age, Mr. Stone was very lively and those who saw him a few weeks ago would readily say that he would live to celebrate the centennial anniversary of his birth. He was captain of several steamboats during his life and none were better known or better like than Uncle Dick.
He was a member of the Odd fellows and Masons. Of the former society he has been a member of for the past fifty years and his card of the Cincinnati lodge dated over fifty years ago, adorns the walls of Odd fellows Hall in Dayton Ky. He was always lively, genial, social and strictly moral in all of his habits and honest in all of his transactions. he has been a member of the Methodist Church for over fifty years and his funeral will take place from the Grace M E Church tomorrow morning at ten o'clock.
The pall bearers will be his four grandsons as follows: R H Stone jun. G W Stone, O W Stone and Geo L Clark. Old St Peter will open the gate for the spirit of Uncle Dick. He was the first volunteer to the Mexican War from Ohio.