The following is quoted from pages 447-48 of Professor James Edmund Nowlin's book, written about 1915, "The Nowlin-Stone Genealogy":
Samuel Marion Stone, whose moral endowments were of the highest order, was a man of virtue, temperance, courage, humility, and faith. His strength of personality and nobility of soul were impressive. He always spoke positively, yet kindly, fully made up as to the best course to pursue. His life's work was an exalted one, filled with deeds of kindness. He was a son of nature's noblemen that was destined to become a light and beacon to those around him.
He grew not only intellectually and morally, but financially. Wealth seemed to come as a natural result. He was one of Virginia's wealthy planters and a typical Southern Gentleman who was master of the situation around him. In his young manhood he was made overseer of his father's large plantation, who owned many slaves, and those under him honored and obeyed their young master because of his remarkable kindness, never resorting to harsh means of discipline. He provided for both white and black families and all were prosperous and peaceful, not only the work in the field but the looms at home plied with the shuttle making cloth, blankets, and covers.
Samuel Marion Stone was one whose characteristic was single devotion. He was true to the marital vows of his young manhood; though his young wife had been called to the other side many years and notwithstanding his superabundant surroundings, he died a widower, never for once considering a second marriage. And though he loved all Christians his affections were characterized even more by their intenseness than their breadth.
His large and well proportioned frame indicated a grave and well positioned intellect. His nobleness of soul, his unruffled equanimity, his unfailing gentleness, and his expansive benevolence won unbounded popularity, and, if his shrinking modesty would have accepted, there was no office within the gift of the county that would not have been gladly bestowed upon him. His death was a public calamity and many will long deplore the loss of such a wise councilor, and intelligent and impartial umpire in all disputes, and a tender sympathizer in all sorrows.
Samuel Marion Stone, whose moral endowments were of the highest order, was a man of virtue, temperance, courage, humility, and faith. His strength of personality and nobility of soul were impressive. He always spoke positively, yet kindly, fully made up as to the best course to pursue. His life's work was an exalted one, filled with deeds of kindness. He was a son of nature's noblemen that was destined to become a light and beacon to those around him.
He grew not only intellectually and morally, but financially. Wealth seemed to come as a natural result. He was one of Virginia's wealthy planters and a typical Southern Gentleman who was master of the situation around him. In his young manhood he was made overseer of his father's large plantation, who owned many slaves, and those under him honored and obeyed their young master because of his remarkable kindness, never resorting to harsh means of discipline. He provided for both white and black families and all were prosperous and peaceful, not only the work in the field but the looms at home plied with the shuttle making cloth, blankets, and covers.
Samuel Marion Stone was one whose characteristic was single devotion. He was true to the marital vows of his young manhood; though his young wife had been called to the other side many years and notwithstanding his superabundant surroundings, he died a widower, never for once considering a second marriage. And though he loved all Christians his affections were characterized even more by their intenseness than their breadth.
His large and well proportioned frame indicated a grave and well positioned intellect. His nobleness of soul, his unruffled equanimity, his unfailing gentleness, and his expansive benevolence won unbounded popularity, and, if his shrinking modesty would have accepted, there was no office within the gift of the county that would not have been gladly bestowed upon him. His death was a public calamity and many will long deplore the loss of such a wise councilor, and intelligent and impartial umpire in all disputes, and a tender sympathizer in all sorrows.
The following is quoted from pages 447-48 of Professor James Edmund Nowlin's book, written about 1915, "The Nowlin-Stone Genealogy":
Samuel Marion Stone, whose moral endowments were of the highest order, was a man of virtue, temperance, courage, humility, and faith. His strength of personality and nobility of soul were impressive. He always spoke positively, yet kindly, fully made up as to the best course to pursue. His life's work was an exalted one, filled with deeds of kindness. He was a son of nature's noblemen that was destined to become a light and beacon to those around him.
He grew not only intellectually and morally, but financially. Wealth seemed to come as a natural result. He was one of Virginia's wealthy planters and a typical Southern Gentleman who was master of the situation around him. In his young manhood he was made overseer of his father's large plantation, who owned many slaves, and those under him honored and obeyed their young master because of his remarkable kindness, never resorting to harsh means of discipline. He provided for both white and black families and all were prosperous and peaceful, not only the work in the field but the looms at home plied with the shuttle making cloth, blankets, and covers.
Samuel Marion Stone was one whose characteristic was single devotion. He was true to the marital vows of his young manhood; though his young wife had been called to the other side many years and notwithstanding his superabundant surroundings, he died a widower, never for once considering a second marriage. And though he loved all Christians his affections were characterized even more by their intenseness than their breadth.
His large and well proportioned frame indicated a grave and well positioned intellect. His nobleness of soul, his unruffled equanimity, his unfailing gentleness, and his expansive benevolence won unbounded popularity, and, if his shrinking modesty would have accepted, there was no office within the gift of the county that would not have been gladly bestowed upon him. His death was a public calamity and many will long deplore the loss of such a wise councilor, and intelligent and impartial umpire in all disputes, and a tender sympathizer in all sorrows.
Samuel Marion Stone, whose moral endowments were of the highest order, was a man of virtue, temperance, courage, humility, and faith. His strength of personality and nobility of soul were impressive. He always spoke positively, yet kindly, fully made up as to the best course to pursue. His life's work was an exalted one, filled with deeds of kindness. He was a son of nature's noblemen that was destined to become a light and beacon to those around him.
He grew not only intellectually and morally, but financially. Wealth seemed to come as a natural result. He was one of Virginia's wealthy planters and a typical Southern Gentleman who was master of the situation around him. In his young manhood he was made overseer of his father's large plantation, who owned many slaves, and those under him honored and obeyed their young master because of his remarkable kindness, never resorting to harsh means of discipline. He provided for both white and black families and all were prosperous and peaceful, not only the work in the field but the looms at home plied with the shuttle making cloth, blankets, and covers.
Samuel Marion Stone was one whose characteristic was single devotion. He was true to the marital vows of his young manhood; though his young wife had been called to the other side many years and notwithstanding his superabundant surroundings, he died a widower, never for once considering a second marriage. And though he loved all Christians his affections were characterized even more by their intenseness than their breadth.
His large and well proportioned frame indicated a grave and well positioned intellect. His nobleness of soul, his unruffled equanimity, his unfailing gentleness, and his expansive benevolence won unbounded popularity, and, if his shrinking modesty would have accepted, there was no office within the gift of the county that would not have been gladly bestowed upon him. His death was a public calamity and many will long deplore the loss of such a wise councilor, and intelligent and impartial umpire in all disputes, and a tender sympathizer in all sorrows.
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