Stone, Indiana

One principal p'ke, theone extending north toward Portland, has been in existence for several years, and it ia of pricelesB value to those low and level regions, erewhilo wellnigh impassable. The smooth and gravelly surface, the solid highway, is widely in contrast to the " corduroy " that used to stretch its rough and weary length for miles and miles at intervals toward the northeJ'u regions - northward, constantly northward, further and still farther, across swamps, through jungles, over creeks and rivers, through bottomless morasses, into the gloomy, overshadowing forests, those rude paths, those primitive roads - they i could not be called highways - would unroll their endless extent. | And now those awful " corduroys. " which used to jerk and shake and pound and rutilo, with their endless " jwunce " and " bounce," by sunlight and starlight, in rain or in shine, come winter come summer, do that fearful work no more forever! I V Other pikes also are in process of construction - one east and west through Stone Station, through Saratoga east and west, and perhaps others still.

Passage source: History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882.

Henry Kizer was born in Botetourt County, Va., in 1776; came to Ross County, Ohio, and then to Randolph County, tnd., in 1S21. He had entered land in 1820, east of Stone Station, in Ward Tdwnship. The log house which he built not long after coming to the county is standing yet His wife was born in 1770, being six vears older than her husband. He died August 12, 1823, and his wife died the next day, August 13, 1823, both in middle life. They wore earnest Methodists. Thomas W. Kizer, in speaking of his grandmother, when looking at the old family Bible, feelingly remarked: "There is not a word in this old Book that Grandmother has not read over and over." They had fom- childi-en, all sons-Elias, Henry, Adam, William. Mr. and Mrs. K. are buried near Stone Station, in a private graveyard. !

Passage source: History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882.

Temple Smith was born in 1800, in Adair County, Ky.; went to Highland County, Ohio, in 1811, and came to Randolph County, Ind., in 1819. He hiis resided thirty-six years west of Bloomingsport - sis years at Bitena Vista, two years at Farmland, and fifteen years east of Stone Station, Ward Township. He married Priscilla Crossley in 1827 (born in 1809). They have had twelve children; six died in childhood and youth, and six have beou married, and they have had thirty -seven grandchildren; three of the sons died of diphtheria, at the ages of nine, eighteen and twenty respectively. His wife died in January, 1882.

Passage source: History of Randolph County, Indiana with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers : to Which Are Appended Maps of Its Several Townships, published 1882.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Ward Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.