Biography of Joseph Cole Stalcup, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Joseph Cole Stalcup, of the firm of Garrett, Stalcup & Co., liverymen, was born
in McMinn County, Tenn.,  February 20, 1851, and is a son of Moses and Nancy
(Black) Stalcup. The father was a native of Virginia, and  one of the first
settlers of McMinn County, Tenn. He lived upon the farm he first cleared and
located upon in  that county for over half a century, and there reared a family
of eleven sons and two daughters. One son was  killed during his youth, while
on duty at Vicksburg, serving as lieutenant of Company F, Thirty-first
Tennessee  Infantry. Another died at the close of the war at Jeffersonville,
Ind. Seven of his sons were soldiers in the  Confederate army. The Stalcup
family originally came from Massachusetts and settled in Virginia, where they
became well-to-do planters. The family upon the side of our subject's mother
were influential people of Greene  County, Tenn., being early settlers of that
place. Joseph C. lived in his native county until 1869, when he left  home and
spent three years in Southwestern Missouri and one year in Kansas. He then
engaged in farming in Sebastian County, near Fort Smith, and in 1880 was chosen
by his friends to fill the position of deputy circuit  clerk, and took charge
of the office at Fort Smith. In 1882 he was elected circuit clerk, to which he
was  successively elected until 1888. He then retired from public life, and
went into the livery and transfer business  with Mr. Garrett. He was united in
marriage at Bolivar, Mo., to Miss Fannie A. Miller, a native of McMinn County,
Tenn., and daughter of the Rev. John W. Miller, a minister in the Baptist
Church. Mr. and Mrs. Stalcup  have one son and two daughters: Ada, a student at
Baird College, Clinton, Mo.; May and Hugh. Mr. and Mrs.  Stalcup have buried
two children in Hackett City Cemetery, named Frank and Lilly. Both himself and
wife are  members of the Baptist Church, in which the latter is an active
worker. He is a Master Mason.