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except as discussed below.
Mr. Stone was a resident of South Carolina at the time of
his death on June 5, 1997. Ms. Stone was a resident of South
Carolina at the time of her death on October 16, 1998.
Mr. and Ms. Stone had four children (children): Eugene
Earle Stone, IV, C. Rivers Stone, Rosalie Stone Morris (Ms.
Morris), and Mary Stone Fraser (Ms. Fraser). At the time the
respective petitions in these consolidated cases were filed,
Eugene Earle Stone, IV, C. Rivers Stone, and Ms. Fraser resided
in South Carolina, and Ms. Morris resided in Georgia.
In 1933, Mr. and Ms. Stone founded several successful
ventures in the apparel industry. Thereafter, at a time before
1976 not disclosed by the record, those ventures became Stone
Manufacturing Co. (Stone Manufacturing), a global manufacturer
and distributor of apparel, located in Greenville, South
Carolina. At least as early as the 1980s, Stone Manufacturing
focused on sports apparel and in particular soccer apparel.
In 1939, Mr. Stone purchased approximately 60 acres of real
property known as Cherrydale (Cherrydale property), located in
Greenville County, South Carolina, for the purpose of relocating
the manufacturing facilities of Mr. and Ms. Stone’s apparel-
industry business to that property. Shortly after purchasing the
Cherrydale property, Mr. and Ms. Stone began to use it, except
for the Cherrydale residence discussed below, as the location for
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