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Thomas Porcher “Tom” Stoney
- Birth
- Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA
- Death
- 21 Apr 1973 (aged 83)Awendaw, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
- Burial
- Berkeley County,South Carolina,USAAdd to Map
- Memorial ID
- 29064247View Source
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Mr. Stoney was born at Medway plantation on the Black river, in Berkeley County, in the oldest house in the state. The house was the former home of Landgrave Thomas Smith, the first provincial governor of South Carolina, said place having been in the immediate possession of his father's people for several generations. His birth occurred there December 10, 1889, and his entire boyhood was spent in the country on a rice plantation on the Cooper River, where stock raising was also engaged in. His parents are Samuel Porcher and Eliza (Croft) Stoney. His great-great-grandfather, John Stoney, was a native of the north of Ireland (his family having moved there from Yorkshire, England, in 1682). On coming to this country he settled in South Carolina, where Mr. Stoney's great-grandfather, also John Stoney, was born in 1780. His grandfather was Peter Gaillard Stoney, and his grandmother Anna M. Porcher. Mr. Stoney's mother was a daughter of Dr. Randell Croft, of Greenville, South Carolina, and Charlotte M. Jenkins of St. Helena, South Carolina, the former of English and French ancestry and the latter of English and Welsh descent. Samuel Porcher Stoney and wife had seven children. Dr. Randell Croft Stoney was killed in a trolley car accident in San Francisco, California, October 1, 1906; Anna Porcher died in infancy; Charlotte M. resides in Charleston, South Carolina; S. Porcher is a planter at Ladson, South Carolina; Laurence O'Hear died May 21, igo6; Thomas Porcher is the next in age, and Sanford Barker resides at Dillon, South Carolina, being connected with the Southern Cotton Oil Company.
Thomas P. Stoney received his primary advantages from governesses and in the country schools of Berkeley County: graduated from Porter Military Academy at Charleston in 1907, afterward spending two years in the University of the South, at Suwanee. Tennessee, and took his law degree from the University of South Carolina. He also attended Columbia University, New York, where he took special work under Rolf M. Gifford. He was admitted to the bar June 7, 1911, and spent eighteen months in the office of J. P. Kennedy Bryan. He then embarked in a general practice for himself, and for a time was associated in the firm of Stoney & Cordes. Mr. Stoney was elected solicitor of the Ninth Judicial Circuit on September 12, 1916, and offering for re-election in 1920, is unopposed for nomination for said office.
October 7, 1915, he married his cousin, Beverly Means Du Bose, daughter of Dr. Theodore Marion and Beverly (Means) Du Bose of Columbia, South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Stoney have two children, Randell Croft and Theodore Du Bose.
Mr. Stoney has been a working member of the democratic party all of his life. He is affiliated with the A. T. 6. fraternity, the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order of Moose and a few social clubs. While in "prep" school and college he took a great interest in all forms of athletics and closed his college days on the varsity football and track teams. He has carried with him in life this love of all forms of clean athletics and is convinced that the best work is accomplished when one is physically as well as mentally fit.
He was the 53rd mayor of the city of Charleston.
Children
Randell Croft Stoney
Theodore DuBose Stoney
Laurence O’Hear Stoney
Contributor: Anonymous (49981769)
Mr. Stoney was born at Medway plantation on the Black river, in Berkeley County, in the oldest house in the state. The house was the former home of Landgrave Thomas Smith, the first provincial governor of South Carolina, said place having been in the immediate possession of his father's people for several generations. His birth occurred there December 10, 1889, and his entire boyhood was spent in the country on a rice plantation on the Cooper River, where stock raising was also engaged in. His parents are Samuel Porcher and Eliza (Croft) Stoney. His great-great-grandfather, John Stoney, was a native of the north of Ireland (his family having moved there from Yorkshire, England, in 1682). On coming to this country he settled in South Carolina, where Mr. Stoney's great-grandfather, also John Stoney, was born in 1780. His grandfather was Peter Gaillard Stoney, and his grandmother Anna M. Porcher. Mr. Stoney's mother was a daughter of Dr. Randell Croft, of Greenville, South Carolina, and Charlotte M. Jenkins of St. Helena, South Carolina, the former of English and French ancestry and the latter of English and Welsh descent. Samuel Porcher Stoney and wife had seven children. Dr. Randell Croft Stoney was killed in a trolley car accident in San Francisco, California, October 1, 1906; Anna Porcher died in infancy; Charlotte M. resides in Charleston, South Carolina; S. Porcher is a planter at Ladson, South Carolina; Laurence O'Hear died May 21, igo6; Thomas Porcher is the next in age, and Sanford Barker resides at Dillon, South Carolina, being connected with the Southern Cotton Oil Company.
Thomas P. Stoney received his primary advantages from governesses and in the country schools of Berkeley County: graduated from Porter Military Academy at Charleston in 1907, afterward spending two years in the University of the South, at Suwanee. Tennessee, and took his law degree from the University of South Carolina. He also attended Columbia University, New York, where he took special work under Rolf M. Gifford. He was admitted to the bar June 7, 1911, and spent eighteen months in the office of J. P. Kennedy Bryan. He then embarked in a general practice for himself, and for a time was associated in the firm of Stoney & Cordes. Mr. Stoney was elected solicitor of the Ninth Judicial Circuit on September 12, 1916, and offering for re-election in 1920, is unopposed for nomination for said office.
October 7, 1915, he married his cousin, Beverly Means Du Bose, daughter of Dr. Theodore Marion and Beverly (Means) Du Bose of Columbia, South Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Stoney have two children, Randell Croft and Theodore Du Bose.
Mr. Stoney has been a working member of the democratic party all of his life. He is affiliated with the A. T. 6. fraternity, the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias, the Loyal Order of Moose and a few social clubs. While in "prep" school and college he took a great interest in all forms of athletics and closed his college days on the varsity football and track teams. He has carried with him in life this love of all forms of clean athletics and is convinced that the best work is accomplished when one is physically as well as mentally fit.
He was the 53rd mayor of the city of Charleston.
Children
Randell Croft Stoney
Theodore DuBose Stoney
Laurence O’Hear Stoney
Contributor: Anonymous (49981769)
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Mayor of the city of Charleston 1923-1931
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- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/29064247/thomas_porcher-stoney: accessed), memorial page for Thomas Porcher “Tom” Stoney (16 Dec 1889–21 Apr 1973), Find a Grave Memorial ID29064247, citing Strawberry Chapel Cemetery, Berkeley County,South Carolina,USA;Maintained by Saratoga (contributor46965279).
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