1    Ausker Friel Stone Fath Moth b.1850-09 Wythe Co Va or Grayson  d.1931  
info New 20Sep2012: Excerpt from "The Meek Family of Washington County, Virginia" by Danny Morris Fluhart containing reminiscences' by Ausker Friel Stone of his life. The link to the excerpt can be found at the bottom of this page in the docs section. It is well worth the read. The first several pages are genealogy info for Martha Susan Meek (Ausker's wife) with Ausker's recollections beginning on page 327 (page numbers at bottom of page). Poems included at the end begin at the bottom opf page 342.
I am indebted to Mr Fluhart for giving me permission to reproduce this excerpt from his book. [Fritz]
Note: Marriage lic says AF Stone was born in Wythe Cnty Va & wife in Smythe Cnty Va

Census 1860 Western District, Pulaski, VA: William Stone 50 Louisa Stone 42 Riley Stone 22 Oscar Stone 9 Amanda Stone 15
Census 1900 Marion, Smyth, Virginia: Au??S* [Auscar F (from viewing image)] Stone 49 Mattie Stone 46 Lucy L Stone 18 L??Ckie Stone 17 Steven A Stone 14 Mattie V Stone 13 Gaylord J Stone 11 Albina F Stone 9 Lorena Stone 8 William W Stone 7 Herbert G Stone 3 Myra W Stone 1 Mollie J Jantenir 33 Abraham L Jantenir 1

Photograph from Ancestry.com, submitted by Margaret Cathcart 3 Oct 2007. She also reports he is buried at East End Cemetery in Wytheville, VA
1900 census certifies birth date
9 1860 () Newbern, Pulaski Co, VA 9 VA
19 1880 () Smyth Cty, District 82 29 Virginia
20 1900 () Smyth Cty, District 81 49 Virginia
15 1910 () Reed Creek, District 148 60 Virginia
16 1920 () Wytheville, District 195 69 Virginia
17 1930 () Wytheville, District 11 78 Virginia
 
 2   Laura Elizabeth Stone Fath Moth b.1872-11-24 Marion, Smyth Cty, Va  d.1873-02-12 Marion, Smyth Cty, Va 
 
 2   Lydia Ella Stone Fath Moth b.1873-12-29 Marion, Smyth Va  d.1947-07 Wytheville Va 
infoCensus:1930 Wythe Co Va
Burial:1947 East End Cemetery, Wytheville, Va
 
 2   Samuel Hall Stone Fath Moth b.1876-01-11 Marion, Smyth Co Va  d.1889-03-09  
 
 2   Ausker Meek Stone Fath Moth b.1878-12-05 Marion, Smyth Co Va  d.1934-11-30  
info16Sep2018 SR: Found the blurb below in a book about the Holston Conference of the Methodist Church, Sketches of Holston Preachers.
https://www.google.com/search?q=j.c.+thomas,+carter+county,+tn&ei=3HmdW8j5IPDH_QbFn6n4Cg&start=100&sa=N&biw=1471&bih=868
Stone, Ausker Meek: Born Dec. 13, 1878, near Marion, Va. He was one of a family of nineteen children. He was for a time a student at Emory and Henry College. Engaged for some years in milling and electrical business, and later, was a traveling salesman. He was converted and united with Mt. Carmel Church in childhood. In his forty-third year (1921) he gave himself anew to God and felt anew the call to preach, and was licensed to preach. He was immediately given work as a supply. Admitted in 1923, he served five charges. He was a builder of churches. Ardent in temperament, he won friends readily and had a genius for leadership. Although beginning to preach late, he was an acceptable preacher and his work was successful. He married Oct. 19, 1898, Miss Octavia Etter, Rural Retreat, Va. Shortly after Conference in 1934 he underwent a serious surgical operation in a hospital in Norton, Va., where he was entering upon his third year as pastor. He died suddenly in the parsonage on Nov. 30, 1934. He was buried at Mt. Carmel, Smythe County, Va.
 
 2   William Connelly Stone Fath Moth b.1880-10-03 Marion, Smyth Co Va  d.   
 
 2   Lucy Lunday Stone Fath Moth b.1882-01-11 Marion, Smyth Co Va  d.1952-01-27  
 
 2   Lockie Flowers Stone Fath Moth b.1883-04-04 Marion, Smyth Cty, Va  d.1958-03-14  
  3  Robert Friel Hufford Fath Moth b.1903-09-05   d.1906-09-06  
infosource: Listen to the Mocking Bird by Daniel Dunbar Howe
  3  Eleanor Virginia Hufford Fath Moth b.1907-07-23   d.   
infosource: Listen to the Mocking Bird by Daniel Dunbar Howe
  3  Martha Elizabeth Hufford Fath Moth b.1909-09-13   d.   
infosource: Listen to the Mocking Bird by Daniel Dunbar Howe
  3  William Wallace Hufford, Jr Fath Moth b.1913-04-23   d.   
infosource: Listen to the Mocking Bird by Daniel Dunbar Howe
 
 2   Charles Emit Stone Fath Moth b.1884-10-14 Marion, Smyth Co Va  d.1899-10-26 Marion, Smyth Cty, Va 
 
 2   Stephen A Stone Fath Moth b.1886-01-12 Marion, Smyth Cty, Va  d.1905-04-07 Marion, Smyth Cty, Va 
 
 2   Mattie Virginia Stone Fath Moth b.1887-02-16 Marion, Smyth Co Va  d.   
 
 2   Gaylord Joseph Stone Fath Moth b.1889-01-04 Marion, Smyth Co, Va  d.1952-01-14 Fort Worth, TX 
 
 2   Albina Fitzillian Stone Fath Moth b.1890-08-20 Marion, Smyth County, Va  d.   
 
 2   Lorena Stone Fath Moth b.1891-07 Smyth Co Va  d.   
info1940 census Maryville, TN
 
 2   Mary Gold Stone Fath Moth b.1891-07-26 Marion, Smyth Co Va  d.1905  
 
 2   Winnie Wentworth Stone Fath Moth b.1894-07-16 Marion, Smyth Cty, Va  d.1975-10-07  
 
 2   Alma Gertrude Stone Fath Moth b.1895-08-24 Marion, Smyth Cty, Va  d.1895-09-24 Marion, Smyth Cty, Va 
 
 2   Herbert Given Stone Fath Moth b.1896-09-25 Marion, Smyth Cty, Va  d.1976-10 Kingsport Sullivan Tenn 
  3  Martine Stone Fath Moth b.1921   d.   
  3  Valda Stone Fath Moth b.1924   d.   
  3  George B Stone Fath Moth b.1926   d.   
 
 2   Myra W Stone Fath Moth b.1899-02 Marion Va  d.   
 
 2   Harriett Katharine Stone Fath Moth b.1914-07-20 Bel Aire, MD  d.1995-09-28 Fort Worth, Tarrant Co. TX