2nd great-grandfather of Katherine Cook

Private     Co. E     2nd WV Cavalry
Dates of Service:  12 Sept 1861 - 30 June 1865

Edward Stoneking was born December 19, 1835 in Greene County, PA. His father died before he was 5 years old. After his father's death, his mother took him and a younger brother to Tyler County, VA[WV] where a couple of his uncles lived. Shortly after that, he was bound out to a farmer named John Bullman, to remain with him until he became of age. He did not see his mother again until after the Civil War.

   Edward enlisted in Co. E of the 2nd WV Cavalry on September 12, 1861. He re-enlisted as a veteran on January 1, 1864. During his furlough between enlistments, he married Mary Jane Livingston in Tyler Co. WV.

   On May 10, 1864, his regiment was involved in the Battle of Cove Mountain in Wythe County, VA. Edward was severely wounded by a gunshot through his left breast, just missing his spinal cord. He was captured by the enemy and taken to Emory & Henry College, a confederate hospital located in Washington County VA, along the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad. He remained there for about two months, then was transferred to the hospital at Andersonville Prison. He was paroled out in December 1864 and remained hospitalized until he rejoined his unit just prior to the end of the war.

   Edward and Mary Jane were the parents of nine children, eight of whom survived into adulthood. Their youngest son, James P. Stoneking, was my great-grandfather. Edward died on August 6, 1930 at the age of 94, and is buried at Topeka Cemetery in Topeka, KS.

GRAVESITE: Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee, KS
Written by Kathy Cook, June 2012