Benton Stone
1907 - 1981-
Born 31 Jan 1907 Loudoun County, Virginia 
[1] Gender Male Died 30 Nov 1981 Falls Church, Virginia [1] Buried Mount Olivet United Methodist Church Cemetery, Lovettsville, Virginia [1] Person ID I15 Virts Last Modified 22 Apr 2017
Father Unknown, d. Yes, date unknown Mother Ella Mae Stone, b. 2 Aug 1879, Lovettsville, Virginia , d. 27 Jun 1953, Leesburg, Virginia Family ID F25486 Group Sheet
Family Goldie Pauline Virts, b. 20 Oct 1907, Lovettsville, Virginia , d. 13 Feb 1997, Leesburg, Virginia Married 24 Oct 1934 Leesburg, Virginia [2] Last Modified 5 Aug 2015 Family ID F4 Group Sheet
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Goldie Pauline Virts and Benton Stone
Goldie was born October 20, 1907 in Lovettsville, Virginia to Oscar Franklin and Mary Catherine Mann Virts. She died on February 13, 1997 in Leesburg, Virginia. She married Benton Stone on October 28, 1934. Benton was born January 31, 1907 in Loudoun County, Virginia and died November 30, 1981 in Fairfax, Virginia. Both are buried in the Cemetery at Mt. Olivet Methodist Church in Lovettsville.
Photo Courtesy of Raymond E. Virts Family
A Virts Country Butchering
Th hog has been scrapped clean and shaved down with a knife and ready to be hung on the gallous pole. In the foreground are Benton Stone and Theodore Roosevelt Virts, with Russell James Virts working on the hog. Behind Russell is Elmer Swartz.
A Virts Country Butchering
Raymond Eugene Virts, left, and Benton Stone de-bone and cut up the heads. This meat will be cooked in the kettles and later ground up and will be put in the ponhaus (scrapple) and poudin.
A Virts Country Butchering
The hog has been cut up, with an untrimmed ham (foreground right). The ham, some weighing as much as 40 pounds, will eventually be sugar cured along with the sides (bacon) and shoulders. The backbone and ribs will be put into a salt-water brine in large 10-20 gallon crocks. Pork chops were not part cut from the hog, since the whole tenderloin was kept, sliced and frozen. Scrap pieces will be put into the sausage. In this picture are (left, front to back), Benton Stone, James Speaks and Clarence Lanham. On the right are James Green and Elmer Swartz.
A Virts Country Butchering
Elmer Swartz stirring the Poudin, Raymond Eugene Virts, Lester William Thomas Virts, Clarence Lanham, Benton Stone stirring Ponhaus (scrapple) and Daniel Fleming.
Headstones 
Goldie Pauline Virts (1907-1997) and Benton Stone (1907-1981) Headstone
Albums A Virts Country Butchering (14)
November was the time for butchering hogs. It has been a fall tradition in the Virts family for well over 100 years. The Raymond E. Virts family on the Long Lane in Lovettsville, Virginia always butchered on Thanksgiving day. You might consider the butchering day as a family reunion held several times each November as this even would bring together siblings, cousins and friends. There was always a friendly competition amongst Raymond's brothers to see who had the largest hog. It was not uncommon to have a hog have a dressed weight of over 400 pounds. Such a hog would produce over 40 pound hams that would be sugar cured. Most local families had a butchering and would usually slaughter form 2 - 14 hogs, depending on the size of the family. Butchering is nearly extinct today. You will only find a hand full of families that still carry on the tradition. Hardly anyone even knows how to do it anymore. I would have to say it is a dying art. Just click on the picture to see it enlarged and to get a description.
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Notes - Loudoun Times Mirror, December 1981
Benton Stone, 74, of Waterford, a Loudoun native, died Nov. 30 at Fairfax Hospital. Born Jan. 31, 1907 in Loudoun, Mr. Stone had attended the old Brookland School near Morrisonville. He is survived by his wife Goldie Pauline Stone; a step-daughter, Lureen Laing of Wilmington, Del.; two half-sisters, Helen Wright of Purcellville and Madge Reynolds of Silver Spring, Md.; eight step-grandchildren and eight step-great-grandchildren. Interment was in the Mt. Olivet Methodist Cemetery, Lovettsville.
- Loudoun Times Mirror, December 1981
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