"[1] Although her date of birth is unknown, Sarah Stone was born to the midwife Mrs. Holmes of Bridgewater, who was quite well-known despite there not being many records about her.
Stone married a surgeon-apothecary and had children (the number unspecified, although at least one daughter became a midwife in 1726,) as it was custom for midwives to have experienced childbirth themselves.
Stone rarely used any tools or instruments as aid in the practice; she used knife in four circumstances over a thirty-five year period.
Stone, although not inventing a machine or becoming a royally active midwife like du Coudray, left her legacy in her treatise, fighting for the female profession of midwifery.
For the treatise, she collected the fifty most challenging or interesting births as a guide for women to follow in similar cases.
In turn, they would most likely give a lack of wanted sympathy for the woman bearing the child: "… for it must be supposed that there is a tender regard one Woman bears to another, and a natural sympathy in those that have gone thro’ the Pangs of Childbearing; which, doubtless, occasion a compassion for those that labour under those circumstances, which no man can be judge of.
Most of the births that ended in the death of the child or mother Stone blamed on the ignorance of the midwife that had started the delivery.
In her "Observation XXL The Delivery of a Woman, who was kept in hard Labour many hours, by the ignorance of her Midwife," Stone details such a case: "The first Pain she had, after I was with her, I broke her Waters, and was forc’d to be very quick to receive the Child; for her Pains being violent, and the Child so long confin’d by the thickness of the Skin that held the Waters, as soon as the Child had liberty, it was born in less than half a minute, which astonish’d the Midwife and Women: they would fain have prevailed on me to have told them what I did; but I chose not to inform them at that time.
[7] There is no exact date of death for Sarah Stone, however it was mentioned that she was still alive in 1737, the year that she published her treatise.
After her treatise was published, Stone moved to London and disappeared from public eye and records, thus giving no exact date or estimation of when she died.