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Biographical/Historical:
The Stone family of Calhoun County, Florida, dates to the arrival of Colonel Henry D. Stone, veteran of the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He and his son, Lackland M. Stone, served in Florida's Legislative Council. Mode Lee Stone was the son of John Henry Stone, the son of Lackland M. Stone.
Mode Lee Stone was a prominent Florida educator and school administrator. He served as Superintendent of Tallahassee schools from 1930 to 1937, and as Director of Curriculum for the Florida Department of Education from 1937 to 1942. He was a professor and Dean of the Florida State University School of Education from 1946 to 1973. He married Lois Lancaster on August 28, 1928. After the death of his first wife, Stone married Jeanne Compton, the daughter of John Coleman Compton and Bessie Beauchamp Phillips Compton, in 1942.
Summary:
The collection consists of the Stone family papers that Jeanne Stone, wife of Mode Lee Stone, collected. The collection contains material related to the Stone, Compton, and Godwin families; and other 19th and early 20th century records of various families in Jackson and Calhoun counties. The records include correspondence, diaries, photographs, financial papers, and land records.
The collection also contains Civil War materials relating to Daniel Hall, a member of the Sixth Florida Infantry; and Thomas A. Godwin, believed to be part of Company H, First Florida Infantry. These materials include correspondence and a receipt for Confederate tax. The correspondence relates to furloughs and several deaths during the Civil War. Hall's correspondence is to his parents Malcom and Martha Hall and business associate David D. McMillian, whose land records are also in the collection.
In addition, the collection contains a register and papers, 1866-1893, of the Antioch Baptist Church, which was in Altha (near Blountstown), Calhoun County, Florida. The register includes church minutes and membership lists. Some other items in the collection include land grants of the Yon family, estate papers of Felix H.G. Long, teacher exams from 1917 to 1946, various records of the Jackson County grand juries and county commission from 1850-1902, other territorial land grants, and miscellaneous other records related to Jackson County and Calhoun County lands. There is also correspondence between Jeanne Compton and Mode Lee Stone during his service in the U.S. Navy in World War II; poll tax receipts of Mode Lee and Lois Lancaster Stone, 1932-1936; and Jeanne Compton's grade cards from Tallahassee public schools and the Florida State College for Women, as well as directed reading outlines she made as a teacher.
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Associated Materials:
For materials related to Mode L. Stone's career as an educator, see the Mode L. Stone Collection (HP-2011-018) at the Florida State University Special Collections and Archives.
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Ownership/Custodial History:
William P. Thompson is the son-in-law of Jeanne Stone. Ben Stone is the great-grandson of Bessie Beauchamp Compton and the grandson of Jeanne Compton Stone.
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Compton family. Godwin family. Godwin, Thomas A., fl. 1860-1865 Hall, Daniel, fl. 1860-1865 Long, Felix H.G., d. 1878 Stone, Jeanne Coleman Compton. Stone, Mode, 1902-1979
Baptist church records. Baptists Florida Church records and registers Florida --Calhoun County Education Florida Education Administration. Florida Education--Florida--Teachers Poll tax Florida. Teachers Florida Women History 19th century Florida Women History 20th century Florida World War, 1939-1945.
Diaries. aat Deeds. aat Church records. aat
Calhoun County (Fla.) Florida History Civil War, 1861-1865 Jackson County (Fla.)
Added Entries
Stone, Jeanne Coleman Compton.
Stone, Lois Lancaster.
Stone, Mode, 1902-1979
Compton, Bessie Beauchamp Phillips.
Compton, John Coleman.
Hall, Daniel, fl. 1860-1865
Godwin, Thomas A., fl. 1860-1865
Antioch Baptist Church (Calhoun County, Fla.)
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