History of Amos Pease Stone and wives. Written by Theresa Shaw McCarthy, grand-daughter. El Camino camp, West Los Angeles County Co. Feb., 1961
AMOS PEASE STONE
Born: Canaan, Massachusetts, March 18, 1815.
Died: Ogden, Utah, March 17, 1890.
Amos started school at the age of six, at Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He started work at age of 13 and for three years was in the employ of Joel Stevens at Pittsfield, Mass. The following winter he returned to his home on Canaan, N. Y., where he attended school during the winter. That spring he went to Houstonville, Mass., where he learned the of machine forging, and here he spent four years in the shops of P. D. Whitmore. He was later employed by Hall and Parker at Wallingford, Connecticut, with whom he remained until the spring of 1837, when he left for Haddan, Conn., where he worked at gun smithing for Mr. Schofield. In the fall of 1837 he began business for himself, renting a blacking shop at Northford, Conn.
While living at Northford he married Amelia Bishop. In the fall of 1839 they moved to Middletown, Conn., and one year later to New Haven where in one year and a half he built a steam engine and machinery used in making ship blocks for George W. Staples of New York City. In the spring of 1841 he set up machinery for Mr. Staple at New Haven, and operated the engine for him until the fall of 1845.
Amos and wife, Amelia Bishop, joined the L. D. S. Church in December, 1844, at New Haven and were arranging to leave to the West with the Mormons when Amelia died. Children of first marriage were as follows: Emily Amelia, b, Jan. 4, 1839, married Newton Tuttle; Charles Amos, b. Dec. 29, 1840, d. Mar. 24, 1842; Harman, b. July 3, 1843, d. Jan. 13, 1844; and Marab, b. Sept 26, 1845, d. Feb. 4, 1913, at Inkom, Idaho, married 1864 at Slaterville, Utah, to Thomas I Richardson, Jr.,
Amos P. Stone married second time Feb. 1, 1846, at home of Merlin Jones at Hamden Conn., to Minerva Leontine Jones, daughter of Merlin and Roxana Ives Jones. She was born June 4, 1822 at Wallingford, Conn. Died August 17, 1867, at Ogden, Utah.
Minerva was a woman of purity of mind and deeply religious. She was very poetic and wrote many poems and personal tributes.