Several Stone families in America are traced beginning with the Rev. Timothy Stone of Great Bromley, Essex, England and continuing through the descendants of William Stone, the Colonial governor of Maryland. Includes other Stone families of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee in an attempt to make a connection to the author's family.

The Stone family originally of England and later in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. The earliest known progenitor of the Stone family is William Stone de Twiste, born ca. 1490 in Parish of Twiston, Lancashire, England. He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Bradley. Their son, Richard (1540-1606), and his wife, Isabel Girdier (b. 1553), daughter of John Girdier of Carr House had nine children. Their third son, Thomas born 1580, was baptized in Parish of Croston. He and his wife Elizabeth Lufkyn had four sons and two daughters. Son, George, born 1597 in London, England came to Jamestown in 1620 with his three brothers all young men. He is the founder of the Stone name in Virginia. The other brothers migrated west. Robert Burns Stone (1889-1958) was born in Big Rock, Stewart Co., Tenn., a son of Joseph Franklin Stone and Martha Malinda Cherry. He married 1913 in Paducah, Ky., Ada Belle Stewart (1887-1982). Both died in Lexington, Kentucky. The Cherry family is also of English origin. The family discussed in this book stems from William Cherry, who came to America with his brother John in the 1630's. He settled in Martin Co., N.C. After 172 years in North Carolina, several families migrated to Tennessee.