This from an article by Ben T. Traywick, in the Tombstone News, Feb. 14, 2014.

"Frank Swift, later to become governor of California, was among the 200-odd Pike County emigrants in the train. Swift often wrote poems- or doggerel- and as he was quite fond of John Stone, he wrote one poking gentle fun at the young fellow. He entitled it "Joe Bowers" and while sitting around the campfire one night, his friend, ex-Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, R. A. Campbell, read it to the company at large. Soon everyone was convulsed with laughter. In a very short time the entire train had memorized the poem and a musician found suitable music* and made it into a song called "Joe Bowers, All the Way from Pike."
The song was sent back to the Salt River Journal in Pike County where it was published and re-published......"

..... (The song is reproduced).

*We do not have the music; the tune used now is by a later composer.

"The song caused John Stone to lose his name entirely, for he became "Joe Bowers," and he stayed Joe Bowers."

The story is given about the chunk of gold quartz that gave him $15,000.
Traywick says Stone became a drunk, and despondent one night, slashed his throat in his cabin at Greenwood, January 23, 1864.

The above is another story that needs verification.