The Stoner family were part of the large German migration southward down the Shenandoah Valley. The first to arrive in the Roanoke area was Daniel Stoner Sr (1770-1838), who was born in Maryland, where he married in 1792 Mary Dagen (1774-1858). They had ten children: John, (1793-1887), who married Elizabeth Gish; Anna (1796-1871), who married William McDermid; Rebecca (1797-1867), who married Jonathan Hardy and moved to Indiana; Mary “Polly” (1800-1866), who married Benjamin Crumpacker and moved to Indiana; Susannah (born 1804), who married David S. Nininger; Samuel (1805-1845), who married Catherine Ammen; Eliza (born 1810), who married Charles H. Carper; Daniel Jr (1811-1888), who married Matilda Campbell; Matilda (born 1815), who married Albert G. Williams; Lucinda (1820-after 1880), who married William S. Minor.
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