May Stone (May 1, 1867 – January 29, 1946) was an American educator and administrator from Kentucky who contributed to the settlement school movement of the early 20th century.
With Pettit, Stone spent three summers conducting a series of schools for the Federation near Hazard and Hindman, Kentucky, from 1899 to 1901.
Local man Solomon Everage asked the two women to establish a school in the Troublesome Creek area, and, in 1902, with financing from the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Stone and Pettit co-founded Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky.
With Pettit, she helped found the Conference of Southern Mountain Workers and served on the board of the Frontier Nursing Service.
[2] Although Stone remained principal of the Hindman Settlement School until 1936, she relied heavily on other staff members, especially assistant director Elizabeth Watts, after 1920.