Olive Stone1

b. 18 August 1795, d. 6 September 1864
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Great-grandmother of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
3rd great-grandmother of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Ruth Minerva Fairfield
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Olive Stone
     Olive Stone was born on 18 August 1795 in Arundel, York County, Maine.1,4,5 She was the daughter of Jonathan Stone and Margaret McCulloch.2,3 She was baptized on 17 September 1797 in Church of Christ, Arundel.6 She married Asa Fairfield, son of William Fairfield and Mary King, on 13 June 1819.1 She died on 6 September 1864 in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, at age 69 years, 19 days.1,7 She was buried on 8 September 1864 in Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne.8,7
     
     When Olive married, according to Anna Fairfield Pevoto, her father, "Capt. Oliver Stone" had made for her in Philadelphia, a full service of sterling flatware engraved with her initials "OS." It makes for a nice story, but Olive's father died several years before she married. Whatever the real story is, at least one spoon has survived and is currently owned by the writer, Laura Munson Cooper, it having been passed from Olive's granddaughter, Anna Fairfield, to her niece, Ruth Fairfield Horn, to Ruth's daughter, Ruth Anna Horn Munson, to me, Ruth Anna's daughter. I also have a letter from Anna that accompanied the spoon when she passed it to Ruth. Note that Anna believed Olive's father was a sea captain whose given name was Oliver. He may very well have been a sea captain (or "sailing master" as they were then called), but his given name was Jonathan.

     See also a 1912 article that appeared in the Fort Wayne Sentinel.

Additional Data
Olive and Asa Fairfield appeared on the 1 June 1850 Federal Census of Wayne township, Allen County, Indiana, enumerated 9 September 1850. Their children Olive, Augustus and Cyrus were listed as living with them.9 Click to view image

Olive and Asa Fairfield appeared on the 1 June 1860 Federal Census of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, enumerated 29 June 1860.10 Click to view image

Olive Fairfield's obituary appeared in Dawson's Fort Wayne Weekly Times on 14 September 1864 in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana.7 Click to view image

Children of Olive Stone and Asa Fairfield

Citations

  1. [S723] Fairfield, Holy Bible, This bible was given to Ruth Anna (Horn) Munson by Anna Miriam (Fairfield) Pevoto. It was lost when the Munson home burned in 1972. However, the family information contained therein was carefully copied by Laura (Munson) Cooper some years prior to that time. The handwriting was imitated and the formatting preserved in the copy, and it is still in the possession of the writer. Unfortunately, the publication data was not understood at the time the copy was made to be important, so that is lost forever. Hereinafter cited as Fairfield Bible.
  2. [S803] Lynn Frye Sherrill, "Hugh McCulloch, Forgotten Financier" (thesis submitted to the Graduate Dept., Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, June 1966), 8.
  3. [S804] Charles Bradbury, History of Kennebunkport, from its First Discovery by Bartholomew Gosnold, 1602, to a.d. 1837 (Kennebunk, Maine: J.K. Remich, 1837; reprint Salem, Massachusetts: Higginson Book Company, 1992), 262.
  4. [S496] Family data, Asa Fairfield Bible, unknown bible title (n.p.: n.pub., unknown publish date); original owned in 1996 by Joe Ed Fairfield (Rosharon, TX).
  5. [S805] Susan Guckenberg, "Hugh McCulloch: His Early Years in New England and Migration to Fort Wayne", Old Fort News 50:2 (15 September 1987): 9.
  6. [S761] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 148 vols., 1847-1994) 108: 55.
  7. [S1181] Sudden Death, Dawson's Fort Wayne Weekly Times, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 14 September 1864.
  8. [S770] Olive Fairfield tombstone, Fairfield plot, Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana; photographed by the writer in September 1987.
  9. [S769] Asa Fairfield household, 1850 U.S. Census, Allen County, Indiana, population schedule, Wayne twp, page 134A, dwelling 795, family 807; National Archives micropublication M432, roll 135.
  10. [S771] Asa Fairfield household, 1860 U.S. Census, Allen County, Indiana, population schedule, Wayne twp, Fort Wayne, page 104, dwelling 702, family 702; National Archives micropublication M653, roll 243.