Husband Rev. Joel Stoneroad 1
Born: 2 Jan 1806 - near Lewistown, Mifflin Co, PA 2
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Father: Lewis Stoneroad ( - ) 2
Mother: Sarah Gardner ( - ) 2
Marriage: 11 Sep 1832 - Greene Co, PA 3
Other Spouse: Hannah Paull ( -Aft 1882) 3 - 27 Jun 1854 3
Wife Rebecca Veech 3
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Father: David Veech, Esq. (1781-1866) 4
Mother: Elizabeth [Unk] ( - ) 5
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1 F [Unk] Stoneroad
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Spouse: Rev. T. P. Speer ( - ) 3
2 F Sarah Louisa Stoneroad 3
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Joel Stoneroad
He was educated at a common country school and at Lewistown Academy, under Rev. Dr. James S. Woods, a son-in-law of the famous Rev. Dr. Witherspoon, then president of Princeton College, New Jersey, at which academy he remained for a year and a half, there applying himself to study with such remarkable assiduity and cleverness in acquirement as in that brief period of time to fit himself to enter the junior class of Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania, as he did in the fall of 1825, graduating from that institution in 1827; whereafter he entered the Theological Department or Seminary of Princeton College (New Jersey), where he remained three years, taking (what was then not the custom to do) the full course, and receiving a diploma. Leaving the seminary he was licensed to preach, and returned home to Mifflin County, whence, with saddle, bridle, and horse, provided him by his father, he set out upon missionary work, under the commission of the Board of Home Missions, and betook himself at first to Hancock County, Maryland, where he preached his first sermon, and from thence to Morgantown, and Kingwood, Preston County, West Virginia, at which place he continued in his missionary labors for about a year, when he accepted the call of the Presbyterian Church of Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1831, of which church he was pastor for about eleven years.
An important incident in his history while residing at Uniontown was the active part he took in 1836 in the trial of the celebrated Rev. Albert Barnes for doctrinal heresy by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member, and then in session in Pittsburgh. The controversy was at its height when Mr. Stoneroad made a most telling speech, which was extensively published through the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia papers, and was frequently quoted thereafter.
Leaving Uniontown he received a call from the church of Florence, Washington County, where he remained eight years. His next call was the joint or united one of Laurel Hill, Franklin township, and Tyrone, Fayette County. After holding this double charge for about twelve years, he relinquished that of Tyrone and devoted himself to Laurel Hill, with Bethel added, for about sixteen years, when, after having been in the active ministry nearly fifty years, he resigned this charge, his health having failed him, through too great devotion to his pastoral duties and consequent exposure to the severities of an inclement climate, which broke down in good part a constitution which was apparently, and otherwise might have continued to be, one of the most robust. Thereafter Mr. Stoneroad took no active part as a clergyman. He resided with his family, in their quiet, romantically-located farm-house in Woodvale. He was an old-time Calvinist in doctrine, but not of that very bigoted school whose cruel austerities are sometimes pictured by ill-tempered or despairing mothers, and so made use of to frighten refractory children, for he was both genial and benevolent.