By Muriel Bristol | December 29, 2024
Edward Russell Stone was born in Cambridge, MA, December 16, 1892, son of Walter E. and Louisa M. (Mellen) Stone.
Edward Russell Stone of Summer Street, Maynard, MA, registered for the WW I military draft in Maynard, MA, June 5, 1917. He was aged twenty-four years (b. Cambridge, MA, December 16, 1892), and employed as a teamster at the sawmill of C.D. Fletcher in Stow, MA. He had some previous military experience in that he had spent a year in a military academy in Staunton, VA. He was tall, with a medium build, gray eyes, and brown hair.
Edward Russell Stone of Maynard, MA, teamster, applied for a U.S. passport in Boston, MA, June 12, 1917. He was born in Cambridge, MA, December 16, 1892, son of Walter E. Stone (b. Portland, ME). He wanted to travel to the British Isles in order to do some lumber mill work, and planned to depart from New York, NY, on June 14, 1917. Stone was described as being twenty-four years of age, standing 5′ 11″ tall, with gray eyes, dark brown hair, and a ruddy complexion. He had a round face, high forehead, long nose, straight mouth, and a square chin. His employer, C.D. Fletcher of Stow, MA, acting on behalf of the MA Committee of Safety’s Committee on Ten Mill Units for England, verified that he had known his employee, E. Russell Stone of Maynard, MA, for five years, and that Stone was competent to do the necessary teamster and yard work for the committee.
SAWMILL MEN WANTED. Men are needed for the ten mill units for service in England as follows: Monthly Wages. 1 General Manager for mill and woods, $250.00; 1 General Bookkeeper and Accountant, 125.00; 1 General Engineer and Millwright, 150.00; 1 General Storekeeper, 125.00; 1 General Secretary and Stenographer, 100.00. Each unit will require: 1 Manager for woods and mill, 110.00; 1 Cook, 85.00; 1 Blacksmith, 70.00; 5 Teamsters, 60.00; 5 Head Choppers, 60.00; 1 Unloader and Scaler, 60.00; 5 Second Choppers, 55.00; 5 Swampers, 55.00; 1 Cookee, 50.00; 1 Millwright and Filer, 115.00; 1 Sawyer, 110.00; 1 Engineer, 70.00; 1 Checker, 65.00; 1 Roll on Man, 60.00; 1 Take away Man, 60.00; 2 Lumber Stickers, 60.00; 1 Slab and Fuel Man, 55.00. Board furnished in addition to above wages. Members of this expedition will sign a contract with the English Government at time and place of sailing. It is proposed to have contract for term of one year assuring members proper transportation to England and return to the United States, and protecting men from any military service, and from any work not required in logging and manufacturing of lumber in England and Scotland. The expedition to sail June 2nd or soon after. Address all communication to Recruiting Committee, Ten Mill Units for England, 50 Kilby street, Boston, Mass. Telephone, Fort Hill 3719 ( Bangor Daily News (Bangor, ME), May 26, 1917).
E. Russell Stone appeared in the Boston, MA, directory of 1918, as having his house at 175 Dartmouth street. His mother, Mrs. Louise Stone, appeared also, as having her house at 175 Dartmouth street.
Christina [(Davis)] Mellen, aged seventy-nine years (b. MA), headed a Boston, MA, household at the time of the Fourteenth (1920), Federal Census. Her household included her daughters, Sarah A. Mellen, proprietress (tea-room), aged fifty years (b. MA), Louise M. [(Mellen)] Stone, proprietress (tea-room), aged fifty-four years (b. MA), and her nephew [grandson], Edw. R. Stone, investments, aged twenty-seven years (b. PA). They resided on Dartmouth Street.
Edward R. Stone married (1st) in Hamilton, OH, April 6, 1920, Martha Miller Renner, he of Boston, MA, and she of Cincinnati, OH. He was a salesman, aged twenty-seven years, and she was at home, aged twenty-six years. Rev. Hinchbaugh performed the ceremony. She was born in Cincinnati, OH, circa 1893, daughter of Otto J. and Martha N. (Miller) Renner.
MARRIAGE LICENSES. Edward E. Stone, 27 years old, Boston, Mass., salesman, and Martha M. Renner, 26, Clifton and Lafayette avenue (Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH), April 6, 1920).
(The child of Edward R. and Martha M. (Renner) Stone was Richard Lowell Stone (1921-1990).
Son Richard Lowell Stone was born in Cincinnati, OH, February 27, 1921.
Father-in-law Otto J. Renner died in Cincinnati, OH, October 15, 1922, aged fifty-one years.
OTTO J. RENNER DIES. CINCINNATI, Oct. 16 – Otto J. Renner, 51, former assistant attorney general of the United States, and trustee of the University of Cincinnati, died here in a hospital Sunday after an illness extending over six months (Mansfield News Journal, October 16, 1922).
Martha M. (Renner) Stone divorced Edward R. Stone in Cincinnati, OH, in 1927.
NEW SUITS FILED. COMMON PLEAS COURT. A3,845. Martha R. Stone vs. Edward S. Stone. For divorce and custody of child (Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH), June 12, 1927).
Thomas J. Cowan, a steward (club), aged forty-nine years (b. MI), headed a Buffalo, NY, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. His household included his roomer, Edward R. Stone, a salesman (automobiles), aged thirty-seven years (b. MA). Thomas J. Cowan rented their apartment at 52 Whitney Street, for $55 per month. They did not have a radio set. (Stone was divorced).
Martha M. [(Miller)] Renner, a widow, aged sixty-three years (b. OH), headed a Cincinnati, OH, household at the time of the Fifteenth (1930) Federal Census. Her household included her daughter, Martha R. [(Renner)] Stone, a widow [SIC], aged thirty-five years (b. OH), her son, Gordon Renner, a lawyer (independent practice), aged twenty-nine years (b. OH), and her grandson, Richard L. Stone, aged nine years (b. OH). Martha M. Renner owned their house at 3892 Clifton Avenue, which was valued at $50,000. They had a radio set.
Edward R. Stone’s former brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Gordon and Martha M. Renner, as well as his ex-wife, Martha M. (Renner) Stone, were sued in a brokerage scandal in October 1930.
$200,000 ASKED. Receiver for Brokers Sues Attorney and Kin. Three suits seeking to recover more than $200,000 from Gordon Renner, attorney end Republican organization leader; his wife [mother] and sister were filed in Common Pleas Court Saturday by Graham P. Hunt, receiver for the defunct Roberts & Hall brokerage firm. The first suit seeks $93,929.47 from Renner. The second asks $35,257 from Mrs. Martha M. Renner, his wife [mother], and the third asks $85,489.50 from Mrs. Martha Stone, Renner’s sister. All the defendants live at 38928 Clifton-av. Attached to the suits were photostatic copies of records of dealings with Roberts & Hall (Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH), October 4, 1930).
Edward R. Stone married (2nd) in Buffalo, NY, October 18, 1930, Marguerite Durtche, he of Maynard, MA, and she of Cleveland, OH. She was born in Marion, OH, May 15, 1906, daughter of Frederick E. and Louise E. (Achenbach) Durtche.
Wedding Announced Today by Father. Fred Durtche of 518 Mound street, announces the marriage of his daughter, Miss Marguerite Durtche of Cleveland, to Edward Russell Stone of Maynard, Mass. The wedding was solemnized Oct. 18, in Buffalo, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. Stone will make their home in Maynard (Marion Star, November 1, 1930).
(The child of Edward R. and Marguerite (Durtche) Stone was Christina Stone (1934-2023)).
Daughter Christina Stone was born in Cambridge, MA, February 1, 1934.
The Milton Selectmen of 1940 were Stanley C. Tanner, Leroy J. Ford, and Edward R. Stone.
Edward R. Stone, a Selectman (Town of Milton), aged forty-seven years (b. MA), headed a Milton household at the time of the Sixteenth (1940) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Marguerite D. [(Durtche)] Stone, aged thirty-four years (b. OH), his daughter, Christina Stone, aged six years (b. MA), and his mother, Louise M. [(Mellen)] Stone, aged seventy-four years (b. MA). Edward R. Stone owned their house on the Milton Mills Road, which was valued at $3,000. They had all resided in the same house in 1935. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of George A. Smith, aged eighty-four years (b. NH), and Charles A. Longley, a storekeeper (retail grocery store), aged sixty-two years (b. ME).
The Milton Selectmen of 1941 were Leroy J. Ford, Edward R. Stone, and Porter J. Durkee.
Edward Russell Stone of Milton Mills registered for the WW II military draft in Milton, April 27, 1942. He had been born in Cambridge, MA, December 16, 1892, aged forty-nine years, and was employed by Dr. G.H. Michel, Co., Inc., of 3808 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, OH. (His [sales] region was The New England States). His next of kin was his wife, Mrs. Marguerite D. Stone of Milton Mills. Their telephone number was 19-12. He stood 5′ 10″ tall, weighed 185 pounds, and had gray eyes, brown hair, and a dark complexion. (Dr. G.H. Michel & Co. sold “… embalming chemicals of superior quality, cosmetic equipment, and instruments”).
Father-in-law Frederick E. Durtche died in Marion, OH, August 31, 1945, aged eighty-six.
FREDERICK DURTCHE OF MOUND ST. DIES. Former Shovel Co. Employe Passes Away at 86. Frederick Durtche, 86, died in his home at 518 Mound street at 4.50 p.m. yesterday. He was ill a number 0f years and bedfast three days. Born Jan. 8, 1859 at Bern, Switzerland, he was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Durtche, May 21, 1891, he married Louise Achenbach in Galion. She died Dec. 26, 1926, in Marion. A resident of Marion 54 years, he came here from Galion, where he was a member of the Lutheran church. A former employe of the Marion Steam Shovel Co., he has been retired a number of years. Surviving are these children, Carl and Frederick Durtche, Jr., both at home; Mrs. R.B. Levien of 637 Mary street; Mrs. E.R. Stone of Milton Mills, N.H.; 15 grandchildren, seven of whom are in service; five great grandchildren, and a sister who was living in France when last heard from before the war. Another daughter, Mrs. Dora Keck of Marion, preceded him in death some time ago. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the Shaffner-Denzer funeral home on East Center street by Rev. M.E. Hollensen of Emanuel Lutheran church. Burial will in Marion cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after Sunday noon (Marion Star (Marion, OH), September 1, 1945).
Edward R. Stone, aged fifty-seven years (b. MA), headed a Milton household at the time of the Seventeenth (1950) Federal Census. His household included his wife, Margarite D. [(Durtche)] Stone, aged forty-four years, his daughter, Christina Stone, aged sixteen years, and his mother, Louise M. [(Mellen)] Stone, aged eighty-four years. They resided in the “3rd house on left” on School Street, when “proceeding east on School st. from intersection of School st. and Milton Mills Road,” in Milton Mills. Their household appeared in the enumeration between those of Fred H. Simes, aged eighty-two years (b. NH), and Charles A. Longley, a proprietor (retail grocery store), aged seventy-one years (b. ME).
Mother Louisa M. (Mellen) Stone died of cerebral thrombosis on School Street in Milton, May 8, 1950, aged eighty-four years. She was a widowed housewife. Irving E. Brown, M.D. signed the death certificate.
DEATH NOTICES. STONE – Louise M., in Milton Mills. N.H., May 8, 1950, suddenly. Survived by a son, Edward R. Stone, of Milton Mills, and two grandchildren, Dr. Richard L. Stone, Gulfport, Miss., and Christina Stone, Milton Mills, N.H. Services at the Methodist Church, Milton Mills, N.H., May 11, at 2 p.m. Interment service at Bigelow Chapel, Mt. Auburn, Friday (Boston Globe, May 10, 1950).
Edward R. Stone served on the Milton Sesquicentennial Committee in 1952. (See Milton in the News – 1952).
South Acton. By Mrs. Irl R. Hurd. Repeat Xmas Cantata. The Christmas cantata rendered at Acton-Milton Mills Church on the evening of Christmas Sunday the was resung for the members of the Gaffney Home in Rochester, N.H., Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Abbie Anderson was organist and director. Mrs. Marguerite Stone, matron of the home, is a former resident of Milton Mills and a close friend of members of the cantata group consisting of the Misses Grace and Eleanor Jenness, Miss Edwina Nary, Mrs. Ann Nary, Mrs. Virginia Mee, Mrs. Carolyn Pike, Mrs. Adella Ramsey, Sandra Winslow and Lucille Wood. At the first rendering of the cantata, the choir was assisted by the junior choir consisting of Julie Hersom, Gloria and Evelyn Farnham, Marcia and Evangeline Mee. Christmas characters were rendered by Erlon and Harlan Wentworth, Wayne Bowley, Charles Ramsey and Carl Hurd (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), January 1, 1953).
Edward (Marguerite) Stone appeared in the Rochester, NH, directory of 1953, as an employee of the Gaffney Home for the Aged at 90 Wakefield street, residing at the same address. Marguerite (Mrs. Edward) Stone appeared as the matron of the Gaffney Home for the Aged at 90 Wakefield street, residing at the same address.
MISS CHRISTINA STONE. ROCHESTER, N.H., Dec 11 – Mr. And Mrs. Edward R. Stone, Wakefield St., are announcing the engagement of their daughter, Miss Christina Stone, to C. Scott Hoar, Sanford, Maine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh E. Hoar, Portland, Maine. A late summer wedding is planned. Miss Stone was graduated from Nute High School, Milton. She is employed by the Rochester Courier here and will be graduated next June from Nasson College of Springvale, Maine. Mr. Hoar was graduated from Deering High School and Portland Junior College, Portland, and Boston University School of Public Relations. He is Sanford correspondent for the Guy Gannett papers of Portland and is instructor of journalism at Nasson College (Portland Press Herald (Portland, ME), December 12, 1954).
Daughter Christina Stone married in Sanford, ME, May 6, 1955, C. Scott Hoar, she of Rochester, NH, and he of Sanford, ME.
Christina Stone Is Married Friday To C. Scott Hoar. Miss Christina Stone of Rochester, N.H., became the bride of C. Scott Hoar of Sanford at the North Parish Congregational Church here last Friday afternoon. The Rev. Rufus Ansley performed the double ring ceremony. Mrs. Ernest Stansfield was organist. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Stone of Rochester, N.H., and the bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh E. Hoar Sr., of Portland. Given in marriage by her father, the bride was attired in a ballerina-length gown of nylon net and lace. Her shoulder length veil of nylon net was fastened to a band of white velvet leaves and orange blossoms. She carried bouquet of mixed Spring flowers. The bride was attended by Miss Sally Stevens, Milton Mills, N.H., as maid of honor and Rachel Hoar, sister of the bridegroom, was flower girl. Edward Austin was best man. Ushers included Leigh E. Hoar, Jr., brother of the bridegroom, and Charles Merrill, both of Portland. A reception followed in the vestry attended by 75. Miss Joanna Hoar, Portland, was in charge of the guest book. Serving were the Misses Helen Drew, Jane Farrow, Jacqueline Beach, Maryalice Purseglove and Hilma Naess, all of Nasson College. Following a short wedding trip to Boston, the couple are residing at 17 Grandview avenue. The bride travelled in a dress of turquoise flannel with brown accessories and corsage of red roses. Mrs. Hoar attended Milton Mills, N.H., schools and Nute High School in Milton. She will be graduated from Nasson College later this month where she majored in public relations. Mrs. Hoar has been employed by the Rochester, N.H., Courier. Mr. Hoar graduated from Deering High School, Portland Junior College, Portland, and Boston University. He is Sanford correspondent for the Portland Press Herald Evening Express and is an instructor of journalism at Nasson College (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), May 12, 1956).
E. Russell Stone appeared in the Rochester, NH, directories of 1958 and 1960, as being retired, with his house at 44 Wakefield street.
BREVITIES. A family by the name of Smith has purchased the home formerly owned by Russell Stone (Farmington News, June 1, 1961).
Edward R. Stone died in Athol, MA, September 28, 1961, aged sixty-eight years.
STONE FUNERAL. ORANGE – Funeral services for Edward Russell Stone, 68, of 75 East Main Street, who died unexpectedly yesterday in Athol, will be in Milton Mills. Calling the Kennett Funeral Home, Sanbornville, N.H. Rev. Buell Maxfield of Million Mills, N.H., will officiate. Burial will be in Milton Mills. Calling hours will be this evening from 7 to 9 at the Higgins Funeral Home here. Botn in Cambridge, Dec. 16, 1892, he was the son of Walter and Louise (Mellen) Stone. He attended schools in Cambridge and Brookline and Staunton Military Academy in Virginia. He was a veteran of World War I, having served to the Navy as chief radioman. During the war he entered Harvard University ROTC, graduating as an ensign. He was a former selectman of Milton, N.H., former fire commissioner at Milton Mills, former Masonic Order member in Cincinnati and the Elks in Buffalo, and a member of Milton Legion Post and Trinity Church, Boston. Besides his widow, Mrs. Marguerite Durtche Stone, matron of the Eastern Star Home here, he leaves a son, Dr. Richard R. Stone of New Orleans; a daughter, Mrs. Christina Hoar of Sanford, Me.; and two grandchildren (Greenfield, Recorder (Greenfield, MA, September 29, 1961).
Mrs. Dushion Eastern Star Home Matron. Mrs. Marguerite D. Stone, who has been matron of the Eastern Star Home, 75 East Main street, the past seven years, has resigned to become superintendent of the Cambridge Home for the Aged at 360 Mt. Auburn street, Cambridge. She will leave Orange Friday to begin her new position the 27th of this month. Mrs. Ethel Dushion, formerly of Ohio, has returned from Worcester to take over the position vacated by Mrs. Stone. She is already staying at the home so that she may become familiar with the position. Mrs. Stone, native of Marion, Ohio, lived in Cleveland before coming to New England. She came to Orange from Rochester, N.H., where she was matron of the local home for the aged. She has been living in Brookline. Her husband, the late Edward R. Stone, was a native of Cambridge and she has relatives living in that city (Athol Daily News (Athol, MA), May 16, 1963).
Mrs. Marguerite Stone was mentioned as a fifteen-year member of V.F.W. Auxiliary, #4405, when it met at Angelo’s Restaurant in June 1968 (Farmington News, June 13, 1968).
Marguerite (Durtche) Stone died in Sanford, ME, August 16, 1984, aged seventy-eight years.
OBITUARIES. Marguerite Stone. SANFORD – Marguerite D. Stone, 78, formerly of Winter Street, died Thursday at Sanford Health Care. She was born in Marion, Ohio, May 15, 1906, a daughter of Frederick and Louise Durtchie. She came to Sanford 10 years ago. She was a former resident of Milton Mills, N.H., and Dover, N.H. Mrs. Stone was an administrator of residences for the elderly for more than 25 years. She worked for the Gafney Home in Rochester, N.H., for a Cambridge, Mass., home and the Order of the Eastern Star Home in Orange, Mass. In 1973 she retired from the Wentworth Home in Dover. After coming to Sanford, she served several years as a volunteer in the H.D. Goodall Hospital Auxiliary thrift shop. Mrs. Stone is survived by a daughter, Mrs. C. Scott (Christina) Hoar of Sanford; a stepson, Richard L. Stone of New Orleans; four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday morning at 10 from Heald Funeral Home, 61 Main St., Springvale, with the Rev. Chandler M. Holmes officiating. Interment will be in Milton Mills Cemetery. Calling hours will be tonight 7-9 at the funeral home (Sanford Journal-Tribune (Biddeford, ME), August 17, 1984).
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Find a Grave. (2015, October 2). Frederick Edward Durtche. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/153148286/frederick-edward-durtche
Find a Grave. (2011, October 21). Otto J. Renner. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/79022144/otto_j_renner
Find a Grave. (2013, August 12). Edward R. Stone. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/115320189/edward-r-stone
Find a Grave. (2011, October 21). Martha R. Renner Stone. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/79050826/martha_r_stone
Find a Grave. (2011, October 21). Dr. Richard L. Stone. Retrieved from www.findagrave.com/memorial/79050844/richard-l-stone
Michel, Gustav H. (1913). “The Scientific Embalmer”: A Treatise on Judicial Embalming, Throwing Light on Very Important Questions which Had So Far Remained Obscure. Retrieved from books.google.com/books?id=R_4zAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA3
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