Willis Eugene Stone was simply known as Uncle Willis by those who remembered him in L. Flora (Stone) Brown's family. As a young man in the Prescott, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, home of his parents, Joseph and Lucy (Towne) Stone, he probably never dreamed that his family would be scattered by the economic conditions of the Great Depression and the needs of the Metropoliton District Water Commission to create a reservoir in the middle of the state of Massachusetts. However, he and his older brother Joseph Fayette Stone moved east to Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, where they worked as contract carpenters and built their own homes. Willis married Lillian Dale Beasley in April 1889 and they became the parents of two boys and a girl before the turn of the twentieth century. After his first wife died, he remarried a German immigrant named Anna about 1906. One of his sons found employment in the woolen mill, one became an electrician, and his daughter married Walter B Kelley. They moved to the Roxbury District of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, where Willis appeared in 1920. Willis E Stone spent the latter part of his life in the household of his daughter and her husband, and they had returned to Canton by 1930.
Willis Eugene Stone was simply known as Uncle Willis by those who remembered him in L. Flora (Stone) Brown's family. As a young man in the Prescott, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, home of his parents, Joseph and Lucy (Towne) Stone, he probably never dreamed that his family would be scattered by the economic conditions of the Great Depression and the needs of the Metropoliton District Water Commission to create a reservoir in the middle of the state of Massachusetts. However, he and his older brother Joseph Fayette Stone moved east to Canton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, where they worked as contract carpenters and built their own homes. Willis married Lillian Dale Beasley in April 1889 and they became the parents of two boys and a girl before the turn of the twentieth century. After his first wife died, he remarried a German immigrant named Anna about 1906. One of his sons found employment in the woolen mill, one became an electrician, and his daughter married Walter B Kelley. They moved to the Roxbury District of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, where Willis appeared in 1920. Willis E Stone spent the latter part of his life in the household of his daughter and her husband, and they had returned to Canton by 1930.
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