Pvt. Charles C. (B) Stone Jr.
Attended Elgin High School.From the 1860 Census #306/2267
Name - Charles Stone
Aged - 18 Years
Born - Vermont
Home in 1860 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill.
Occupation - Serving at Home
From the Report of the Adjutant General of fhe State of Illinois
A Co. 7th Ill. Vol. Inf.
Fremont Rifles
20 year old Tinsmith.Mustered in for 3 years at Mound City, Ill. July 25, 1861.
Home of record listed as Elgin, Ill's.
Issued .69 US Altered Musket taken in the Geneva raid.
Spring 1863 and again in 1864 the Regiment was mounted on mules making them mounted infantry.
Re-enlisted as a Veteran and paid a $300 Veterans Bounty then sent home on 30 days Veterans Furlough.
During their Veterans Furlough the regiment bought at their own expense 16 shot Henry Rifles.
Mustered Out at Louisville, Ky. June 8, 1865.
Received Finial Pay and Discharged at Springfield, Ill. July 11, 1865.
Known Actions;
Fort Henry, Tenn. Feb. 6, 1862
Fort Donelson, Tenn. Feb. 11, 1862
Shiloh, Tenn. April 6, 1862
Corinth,, Miss. Oct. 3, 1862
Town Creek May 26, 1863
Swallow’s Bluff, Tenn. Sept. 30, 1863
Butler’s Creek Aug. 1, 1864
Allatoona Pass, Ga. Oct. 5, 1864
Wippy Swamp Feb. 8, 1865
Neuse’s Bridge, NC March 19, '65
Bentonville, NC March 19, '65
Elgin Registered Voter in 1866.
Member Elgin GAR Post #260.
From the 1870 Census #237/293
Name - Charles Stone
Aged - 29 Years
Born - Vermont
Home in 1870 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill.
From the Post #49 Files
Joined Elgin GAR Veteran's Post #49 Aug. 7, 1888.
From the 1900 Census
Name - Charles Stone
Aged - 58 Years
Born - Vermont
Home in 1900 - Elgin, Kane Co., Ill.
Occupation - Tinsmith
Obit; Feb. 9, 1917 issue of The Elgin Daily News.
Charles C. Stone, 75 years old, of 520 Spring street, sank near the corner of Spring and North streets as he was on his way downtown this afternoon and died fifteen minutes later at St. Joseph's hospital. Acute dilation of the heart is thought to have been the cause of death.
Mr. Stone had not been feeling well for several days past and this morning felt so ill that he did not go to his work at the watch factory, where he had been employed as a tinner. By noon he felt so much better that he ate a hearty meal and started down town.
Residents of the district where he fell took him to one of the homes and hailed Tom Jones, who was passing in a cutter, who took the sick man to the hospital.
Mr. Stone was a brother of Dr. A.N. Stone and the father of C. Alex Stone, secretary of the Elgjn Loan and Homestead association. The only other near relative, aside from the widow, is a siser living in Aurora.
Mr. Stone had lived in Elgin nearly all his life. He was a young man at the beginning of the Civil war and enlisted in the Seventh Illinois infantry. He was a member of C company. At the close of the war he returned at once to Elgin and had lived here ever since that time.
From the 1956 Kane Co. Honor Roll
Soldier - Pvt. Chas C. Stone
Unit - Co. A 7th Ill. Inf.
Died - Feb. 8, 1917
Location - Lot 47, Section 10
Brother of Arthur & Rodney.
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| Used with permission Elgin Area Hist. Soc. |
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| Used with permission Dan Mallett |
Many members of Post #49 sewed watch faces to their ribbons to show they were from Elgin.
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