What's in a name? Perhaps a lot.
With a name like Mourning Stone, I expected to find Native American heritage in my 7th great grandmother's lineage. What I found was quite the opposite.
Mourning was born in 1725 in Williamsburg, Virginia and was the daughter of Thomas Stone and Alexandra Brown. Some considered Mourning a spinster but in 1745, at the age of 20, she married Col. Ambrose Mills, who was a loyalist. They settled in Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina. I have read different accounts of the number of children they had, but what we do know is that only their son, William, lived to adulthood. In 1755 it is reported that Mourning and her children were riding in a coach in Wateree, South Carolina when they were killed by Indians during a raid. Their son, William, was apparently with his father during the massacre. Mourning was around 30 years old and is said to be buried in a field near their home.
How her name seemed to foreshadow her fate...
Mouring Stone's lineage is through the Edney line in my family:
Kate Edney (Raburn Anglin) (3rd great grandparents)
Calvin Edney (Lucinda Wilson)
Sarah Mills (Asa Edney)
William Mills, Maj (Eleanor Morris)
Mourning Stone (Ambrose Mills, Col)
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