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Looking for J.W.R. Stambaugh's parents
Looking for J.W.R. Stambaugh's parents
The Tampico Area Historical Society encompasses parts of Whiteside County and Bureau County in Illinois. Focus is on Tampico, Hume Twp., Hahnaman/Deer Grove, & Prophetstown in Whiteside County & Yorktown & Thomas in Bureau County.
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lkayfields
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Sep 07, 2008
4:30 PM
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Information I have on Joseph often contradicts itself. I have not been able to positively locate him prior to the 1860 census when he shows up in Sterling, Whiteside County, IL with his wife (Elizabeth McNair Stambaugh) and in Denver, Arapahoe County, Kansas as a gold miner. According to his obituary, he was mining gold at that time. The Kansas census states he was born in NC. When he signed up for the 75th Illinois Volunteers in 1862 he stated he was born in Fayetteville, NC. The 1870 census, Sterling, Whiteside County, IL also shows NC. 1880 census, Sterling, Whiteside County, IL shows PA. His Illinois death certificate states Middleburgh, MD. His obituary from 1891 states he was born and raised in Middletown, MD and that “of a large family connection” only a sister living in Philadelphia is left. It doesn’t list her name. His obituary also states he was born on August 8, 1832. He was a 1st Lieutenant in the 75th in 1862, promoted to Captain in March 1863. He was then detailed to the Pioneer Brigade, 2nd Battalion. In 1864 he was mustered out on one day only to be mustered back in on the following day with the First Veteran Volunteer Engineers where he stayed till September 1865. Nowhere in his Civil War Service Record or Pension File does it mention his parents or siblings. His 1890 will bequeaths everything to his wife. He was in the Sterling Guards and later was Colonel of the Third Regiment Illinois National Guard. I have contacted Cumberland County, NC they were not able to find him. The same results were reached in Frederick and Carroll counties in Maryland and Franklin County, PA (where he married Elizabeth McNair in 1855). I contacted the Robert Fleming website with no luck. Whiteside County, IL land transactions did give me one other option. In 1866 he bought some land with the deposit received from Nancy Whitmire of Franklin County, PA, he gives her all rights to the land at that time. In 1886 a quit claim from Nancy gives all rights back to Joseph, she dies within months of the quit claim. Nancy and her husband Samuel are buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Franklin County, PA, they are listed in the 1860, 1870, and 1880 censuses, neither had a will.
I have numerous newspaper articles from the Sterling, IL papers on Joseph which mention much of his life but not his parentage.
Is there anyone who might have information on Joseph W.R. Stambaugh?
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