Liberty Stone

Liberty Stone, born at Shrewsbury, Mass., May 15, 1813, son of Daniel and Anna (Gibson) Stone, came to Peoria, May 6, 1833, and in September of that year settled in Osceola township, one half mile south of the north line, but moved to Buda in 1873. In 1S36, he married Mrs. Martha (Fisher) Winslow, who died here July 15, 1853. In October of that year he married Miss Thankful B. Lesan, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Brooks) Lesan, natives of Maine, who in 1830 moved to Ohio; thence to Bureau county, Ill., in 1836; thence to Knox county; and in 1838 to Osceola township. Her mother died in Illinois, her father in Iowa. Mr. Stone was an active abolitionist, and a conductor on the Underground railroad. Of his many children, Miss Louisa, born in 1843, married Col. W. Jackson in 1869.