Stone Cave # 1
Information provided through a Stone family descendant, research, and personal traveling the Sequatchie Valley.
Photo
by Glenda Schroeder, taken March 6, 2010, permission granted by
Mrs. Walling, property owner. We thank her.
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Stone Cave # 1
Named for the Stone Family who settled in the Sequatchie Valley around 1812, Ezekiel and his wife, Jane Wood, along with their children and most of Ezekiel Stone's relatives and friends, all were moving in a long wagon train, planning to travel on to the West. One of Ezekiel Stone's sons, William, was married then and had one child which got sick and they had to stop, but the rest of the train went on. The Stone Family stopped in what is now known as the Sequatchie Valley in Tenn. By a big cave, now known as the Stone Cave, just off West Valley Road. When William and Mary Randall Stone's baby got well enough to go on, they liked the valley and the area so well they desided to stay.
Photo reprinted Courtesy of Mr. D. Rogers
The
division of General William Stone's Land to his children can be
seen at this location. (Click
here)
Photo
reprinted Courtesy of Mr. D. Rogers
Above - The original Stone homestead house which was built on the opposite side of West Valley Road from the Cave and the Slave's Cabin, where the storage units now stand on West Valley Road. This house no longer exists.
Ezekiel Stone married Jane Woods about 1779. Their children were: Rebecca, b. 1780, m. Beard., Catharine, b. 1783, m. McCord., Hannah, b. 1786, m. Thomas Blair., Mary, b. 1788., William, b. 1791, m. Mary Randall(Randles)., John, b. 1793, m. Susannah Kelley., Thomas Price, b. 1803, m. Minnie Bell, Richard, m. Anne Kelley. Source: History of Hamilton Co., and Chattanooga, TN, page 278 & 279.