Research Notes:
1753 Christian Stoner was reported born on May 4, 1753.
1760 Elizabeth Neff was reported born on June 16, 1760. (John F Murray, "Neff Families and Their Desc. in the 1700's and early 1800's", Compiled for the Neff Reunion, New Market, Virginia, June 20-22, 1991)
1777 The marriage of Elizabeth Neff and Christian Stoner has been reported, by several researchers, on March 22, 1777.
1778 Elizabeth Neff married Christian Stoner on April 27, at St James Church, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [1]
1835 Christian Stoner reportedly died on October 5, 1835.
1849 Elizabeth Neff reportedly died on July 14, 1849 in Ontario, Canada (John F Murray, "Neff Families and Their Desc. in the 1700's and early 1800's", Compiled for the Neff Reunion, New Market, Virginia, June 20-22, 1991)
A memorial stone naming Christian Stoner (1753-1835) and his wife Elizabeth Neff (1760-1849) is at the Stoner Family Cemetery, Port Colborne, Niagara Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada. [2] A biosketch reports:
Christian Stoner was of German heritage and was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was a land owner and a farmer. He was a Mennonite and because of his faith and the early training that was opposed to wars and revolutions, he as well as other members of the same faith refused to take up arms when the rebellion broke out between the 13 colonies and the motherland. When the Americans gained their independence, Christian Stoner became a sufferer from persecution by the Americans, because of his early steadfastness to his principles. Feeling it would be safer to live under British rule, he came to Canada in the early part of the 1790's and located in Welland County, where he took up 400 acres of land. Returning to Pennsylvania, he persuaded a number of relatives and friends to follow him to Canada, where they could find freedom, make a home and keep the faith of their fathers. Christian Stoner returned to Canada with his wife and children and located in Humberstone Township on his 400 acres, where a colony from Bucks County was beginning to be established. The remainder of his life he spent on the farm, where both he and his wife later died. Mr. Stoner took no part in public affairs, but was a firm adherent of the Mennonite Church. They had 12 children.
[1] William Henry Egle, Notes and Queries Historical Biographical and Genealogical Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Annual Volume 1897 (1898), 38, left column, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[2] Find A Grave Memorial 116391710, [FindAGrave].