Draft:Samuel Gaillard Stoney

Samuel Gaillard Stoney (August 29, 1891 - July 30, 1968) was a historian and preservationist in South Carolina. He wrote a collection of Gullah creation stories, a novel about miscegenation, and several books and articles about Charleston, South Carolina.

He graduated from the College of Charleston and received an architecture degree from Georgia Institute of Technology.

He married in 1933 to poet Frances Frost. They divorced.

He was a lecturer at the College of Charleston from from 1949 to 1966.

Writings

 * A collection of creation tales told in Gullah, Black Genesis (1930), a collection of creation tales
 * Po’ Buckra (1930), a novel addressing miscegnation
 * Charleston: Azaleas and Old Brick (1937)
 *  Plantations of the Carolina Low Country (1938)
 * This Is Charleston (1944)
 * The Story of South Carolina’s Senior Bank: The Bank of Charleston (1955)
 * The Dulles Family in South Carolina (1955)