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Submitted: 10/22/22 • Approved: 10/22/22 • Last Updated: 10/25/22 • R1454220-G1454219-S3
1825 - January 1912
*Obituary
Fayetteville Daily
Monday, January 22, 1912
STONE, Amanda Malvina BRODIE - The Funeral Of Mrs. Stone - The funeral of Mrs. Amanda Malvina Stone took place at 2:30 Sunday afternoon from Central Methodist Church and was attended by a great thong of sorrowing friends of the deceased. She had, before death, requested that Rev. N.M. Ragland and Rev. J.J. Vaulx assist her pastor, Rev. Marion Nelson Waldrip in conducting the funeral services, but Mr. Vaulx was too indisposed to be present. It was assigned to Mr. Ragland to tell what he knew of the life and character of Mrs. Stone. He went back 27 years to the time he first visited Fayetteville and told of the cordial reception he received at her home. He spoke touchingly of her devotion to her church, to the W.C.T.U., the Confederate Memorial Association, her family, her deeds to charity that were never heralded to the world and her interest in education. The speaker gave it as his opinion that she and her family started an educational wave in the early days that resulted in the location of the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. The ruling passions of her life were strongly shown in the hour of death, said the speaker.
Mr. Waldrip read a sketch of the life of Mrs. Stone from Fay Humpstead's history of Arkansas. It showed that she was of Scotch-Irish descent and her forefathers had been distinguished in this country and Europe. She was born in Kentucky in 1825 and her father, Rodowick Brodie, moved to Arkansas in 1834, living in Benton County a year before coming to Fayetteville. In 1842 she was married to Stephen K. Stone and nine children were born to them, seven of whom are living, as follows: Mrs. George S. Albright of this city, R.S. of Kansas City, B.H., W.C.L., Miss Amanda and A. of this city. Mr. Waldrip paid a beautiful tribute to her character as one who had gone through the fire off suffering and yet was always cheerful and never selfish. This was the critical test, said the speaker. Mrs. Stone was crippled in a fall eleven years ago and has ever since suffered great pain and has never been able to stand on her feet.
Appropriate music was furnished by the Methodist choir, a solo by Miss Mamie Phillips being especially beautiful and touching. The floral decorations were the prettiest ever seen here on a similar occasion. The interment was in Evergreen Cemetery were additional services were held, in which Rev. J.J. Vaulx participated. The pallbearers were: R.J. Wilson, George T. Lake, George H. Pettigrew, Henry Crouch, Theodore F. Jones, J.H. McIlroy, Bruce Holcomb and I.G. Combs. Mrs. Stone had lived in Fayetteville more than three-quarters of a century and knew the history of the town better than any other person. It is a pity that her knowledge of the history of the city was not put on record. Her death leaves many blank pages that can never be filled.
Contributed on 10/22/22 by judyfrog
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