• Born: 1833, Long Alley, Ruan Minor, Cornwall
• Christened: 2 Dec 1833, Ruan Minor, Cornwall ¹
• Died: 27 Dec 1858, Long Alley, Ruan Minor, Cornwall
• Buried: 29 Dec 1858, Ruan Major, Cornwall ¹

  Research Notes:

In 1851 Sophia Stone, aged 17, born in Ruan Minor Cornwall, was with her parents in Long alley, Ruan Minor.

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Sophia Stone of Long Alley Ruan Minor died aged 25 years (burial record).

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CORONERS' INQUESTS.

—On the 27th inst., in the parish of Ruan Minor, on the body of Sophia Stone, aged 25 years.—The deceased lived with her father, and attended to the domestic work of his house. On Christmas-day she went from thence with some meat for a pig, and was found dead shortly after, lying in a rivulet of water, her face downwards, having fallen, as was supposed, in a fit (which she had been subject to for many years) whilst crossing it, and had been thereby suffocated.—Verdict, "Accidental Death."

Royal Cornwall Gazette, Friday, 31 Dec 1858, p. 5