In 1935, Thomas Archibald Stone and his wife Ellen Ewing Noyes Stone purchased a much loved and beautiful southern plantation named Boone Hall. Lots of information is available on Boone Hall as it is now open to the public, thanks to the generosity of its current owners. (Boone Hall web site)
Last week I visited Boone Hall in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, for the first time. The Live Oaks planted hundreds of years ago that line the still unpaved driveway evoke feelings of a simpler time. The place is just peacefully beautiful.
The Discovery
To my delight, while looking at the exhibits in a small out-building now called the “Thomas A. Stone House”, I was able to make a little discovery of my own. A framed two page letter is on exhibit written by his mother Flora Maude Campbell Stone. (page 1, page 2)