FolkLib Index - The Stoneman Family (The Stonemans)

      This page is a research project attempt to document The Stoneman Family, complete with all of the 23 chidren of Pop and Hattie Stoneman, whether they were musicians or not..

Key:
(1) = names unknown
(2) = Names found in Family Trees at ancestry.com (Sources, mostly the 1930 and 1940 Census)
(3) = Names listed in the on-line Index of "Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Family" by Roni Stoneman & Ellen Wright
      2007, 304 p., ISBN: 0252074343, ISBN-13: 978-0252074349 2006-030906 (book on order)
(4) = John C. Stoneman Sr.'s obituary

"The Stonemans: An Appalachian Family and the Music That Shaped Their Lives" by Ivan M. Tribe
      1993, 408 p., ISBN: 0252063082, ISBN-13: 978-0252063084

Archives of Appalachia / Stoneman Family Collection at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN
      (includes the names of spouses, children and grand children of 13 of the Stoneman children listed below)

In birth date order:

                                                                          BIRTH
        NAME                          KEY          BIRTH      DEATH       PLACE
     Elisha C.Stoneman (Pop's Father) (2)    -- 10-13-1849  7-06-1934
     Rebecca Bowers    (Pop's Mother) (2)    --  1-07-1868 10-18-1897(at age 29 in childbirth)
     Ernest Van "Pop" Stoneman        (2)(3) --  5-25-1893  6-14-1968  Monorat, VA
     Harriet "Hattie" E. Frost        (2)(3) --  9-28-1900  7-22-1976  Pipers Gap, VA

Edward Lewis "Eddie" Stoneman    (2)(3) --  6-30-1920  9-14-2001  Carroll, VA
Irma Grace Stoneman              (2)(3) --  8-29-1921  9-04-2003
John Catron Stoneman             (2)(3) --  8-20-1923  4-19-2001
Annie Anita Stoneman             (2)(3) -- 12-24-1924  5-  -1932  Galax, VA
Pattie Inez "Patsy" Stoneman     (2)(3) --  5-27-1925  7-23-2015  Galax, VA
Joseph William "Billy" Stoneman  (2)(3) -- 11-04-1926  4-10-1990  Galax, VA
Anna Juanita Stoneman         (4)(2)(3) -- 12-28-1927   -  -1935  Galax, VA
Jack Monroe Stoneman             (2)(3) --  5-10-1929  4-14-1992  Galax, VA
Dean Clark Stoneman              (2)(3) --  6-12-1930  2-28-1989
Gene Austin Stoneman             (2)(3) --  6-12-1930  8-15-2005
Calvin Scott "Scotty" Stoneman   (2)(3) --  8-04-1932  3-04-1973  Galax, VA
Donna LaVerne Stoneman           (2)(3) --  2-07-1934             Alexandria, VA
Rita Vivian Stoneman             (2)    --  3-08-1937  6-12-1937  Washington, DC
Oscar James "Jimmy" Stoneman     (2)(3) --  3-08-1937  9-22-2002  Washington, DC
Veronica Loretta "Roni" Stoneman (2)(3) -- 10-15-1938             Washington, DC
Van Haden Stoneman               (2)(3) -- 12-31-1940  6-03-1995
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Cecile Stoneman                  (3) (Scott's wife, m.  3-??-1954)
Fay Stoneman                     (3) (Dean's wife,  m.  8-31-1957)
Katherine Stoneman               (3) (Eddie's wife, m. 11-24-1940)

[...] = does anyone know how these people fit into the family tree?

      For example, exactly how is Emmett W. Lundy, Ernest's "second cousin", related to Elizabeth Jane "Eliza" Lundy, Ernest's great grandmother?

• Ray Cross - "a Stoneman cousin by marriage" [mother & father unknown]
• Bolen J. Frost - "Ernest's brother-in-law" [mother & father unknown]
        Hattie's siblings were: Irma Frost, Wesley Baldwin Frost and Emma Grace "Emmy" Frost.
        Ernest's siblings were: Boyd Ingram Stoneman and Talmer E. Stoneman.
        Hattie's father was John William Frost. Could Bolen have been an uncle instead of a brother-in-law? Could he be a child of one of her father's siblings: Laura Frost, James Frost, Ellen Frost or Simeon Frost?
• Irma Frost - Hattie's sister
• Emmett W. Lundy - m. 3-28-1886 Nancy Catherine Jennings (15 children) [parents: Churchwell Oglesby Lundy & Caroline Ward (Trimble) Lundy]
        recorded two 78's in 1925 with Ernest, his second cousin, Elizabeth Jane "Eliza" Lundy was Ernest's great grandmother, his father's mother
        Emmett's siblings were: Amos Lundy, Churchwell Oglesby Lundy Jr., James Marion Lundy, Lafayette Nuchelle Lundy, Rosa Jane (Lundy) McKnight, Susan Trimble (Lundy) Davis
        Emmett and Nancy Jennings (15 children): Geedy Lundy, Katy (Lundy) Golding, Stuart Rennie Lundy Kelly Lundy,
        Kelly's nephews: Bobby Lundy, Jerry Lundy, T.J. Lundy
        Emmett's other children [I don't know which one was Katy]: Ada Charity Lundy, Coy L. Lundy, Chester Lundy, Connie Stantin Lundy, Curtis Lundy, Elva Dora Lundy, Everett Jasper Lundy, Maurice Lundy, Melvin Lundy, Naomi Corinea Lundy, Ollie Sophia Lundy, Phebe Emily Lundy
• Ted Lundy - Emmett was Ted's great uncle, and son of Charles Edgar Lundy and Rena Edwards Lundy
  Other Lundy family from above:
  • Bobby Lundy - Kelly's nephew [mother & father unknown]
  • Charles Edgar Lundy [mother & father unknown]
  • Geedy Lundy - Emmett's son
  • Jerry Lundy - Kelly's nephew [mother & father unknown]
  • Katy Lundy - Emmett's daughter
  • Kelly Lundy - Emmett's daughter (15th of 15 children)
  • Rena Edwards Lundy [mother & father unknown]
  • Stuart Lundy - Emmett's son (12th of 15 children)
  • T.J. Lundy - Kelly's nephew [mother & father unknown]
• Bertha Stoneman - "musically inclined cousin" [mother & father unknown]
• Burton Stoneman - "musically inclined cousin" [mother & father unknown]
• George Stoneman - "musically inclined cousin" [mother & father unknown]
        Ernest's cousin, recorded 78's with him
• Peggy Stoneman - ca. 1956 she was a member of the Blue Grass Champs with Donna, Jimmy and Scotty [mother & father unknown]
        Peggy Brain m. Oscar James Stoneman on 7-04-1956, they had one child Jeanette Joyce Stoneman (b. 12-02-1958) ([A] p. 141)
• Willie Stoneman - recorded on 7/05-10/1928 in Richmond, IN with Ernest and the Sweet Brothers.

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