Stone descendant recalls old days in young Jasper
What will be the Jasper Historical Museum at 165 N. Main was once the Stone family pharmacy in the 1920's.
Mary Sanders is the daughter of Clarence Ryall Stone, the pharmacist, and the granddaughter of Thomas Edwin Stone, "an old horse and buggy country doctor," Sanders said. She never met the elder Stone, who is buried at the old Ryall cemetery off U.S. Highway 63.
Country doctors did not make a great deal of money a hundred years ago, but old Doc Stone did well enough to send both sons to Georgetown University in Texas, where Clarence and Joel Edwin Stone became pharmacists.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Jasper in the 1920s
