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 Story" by
Roni Stoneman
as told to Ellen F. Wright
(4) =
John C. Stoneman Sr.'s obituary
[Search for "John Stoneman Sr."]
"The Stonemans: An Appalachian Family and the Music That Shaped Their Lives" by Ivan M. Tribe
Archives of Appalachia / Stoneman Family Papers
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)
Other musicians in the Stoneman Family tree listed at this site:
For example, exactly how is Emmett W. Lundy, Ernest's "second cousin", related to Elizabeth Jane "Eliza" Lundy, Ernest's great grandmother?