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A biosketch reports [1]:

(III) Christian (2), son of Christian (1) and Barbara (Shank) Stoner, was born in Bedford county, October 10, 1793. When six years old his parents moved to Westmoreland county, settling in East Huntington township near Scottdale, at what is known as "Stoner's Settlement." Here he grew to manhood and resided until his marriage, when he moved to Dunbar township, settling in 1817 on the old Stauffer farm, which he obtained through his wife, Annie, daughter of Christian and Agnes (Overhault) Stauffer. Annie Stauffer was born February 5, 1798, died October 9, 1865. They were both Presbyterians. Children of Christian (2) Stoner: 1. Abraham, married Margaret Mackey; settled in Illinois, going thence to Missouri; served four years in the confederate army; died at Eureka Springs, Arkansas. 2. Christian S., married Mary Shellenbarger, and moved to Illinois, where he died; two of his sons, Caleb R. and Martin S., served in the union army. 3. Mary, married Abraham Galley, and resided in Franklin township, Fayette county. 4. Sarah, married Henry N. Friede, and lived in Bullskin township, Fayette county, where her husband died. 5. Agnes, twin of Sarah, married John Dudley Collins, and lived in Dunbar township. 6. John W., married Margaret Ogleive, and moved to Kansas about 1875; he served in the civil war in the Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery; both deceased, leaving a large family of grown children. 7. Rebecca, married Joseph Ogleive of Dunbar township, a merchant of Vanderbilt. 8. Elizabeth, married Joseph Newcomer, and moved to Kansas, where he was killed by a train. 9. Levi, of whom further. Io. Isaac F., married (first) August 11, 1859, Rachel Ball, who died January 25, 1882; he married (second) March 9, 1884, Mrs. Leah (Sipe) Eicher, widow of Andrew Eicher, a union soldier killed in front of Petersburg, and daughter of Peter and Rebecca Sipe. 11. Annie, born October 4, 1839; married John W. Hair, and lived in Franklin township, Fayette county. 12. Cyrus, born October 6, 1842, died unmarried in Dunbar township, aged thirty-three years.


Footnotes:

[1] John Woolf Jordan, Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette and Greene Counties Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (New York: Lewis, 1912), 473, [GoogleBooks].