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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   STALCUP FAMILY. Among the early pioneers of northern Greene County, none
became more widely known than the Stalcups. Isaac Stalcup was the progenitor of
that name and his advent within the county's present boundaries, was some time
during the year 1817, his location being on Section 26. Township 8, Range 4
west. He was a native of North Carolina, and he and wife are said to have been
the parents of twenty-one children. James Stalcup, deceased, who became widely
known in the early history of the township, was a son of Isaac, and was born
August 22, 1786, in the same county as his father. While in Tennessee in 1812,
he married Margaret Marlin, and in 1819 came to Greene County, this State (or
what was then Greene County), and settled first near the present site of
Worthington, but afterward removed to Highland Township, where, by his honorable
conduct and neighborly ways, he acquired many warm and steadfast friends. He was
a hard working and economical citizen and a credit to the township. He died in
1872, followed by his widow a year later. They were the parents of this family:
George, Catharine, Isaac, Elizabeth, Rebecca, William B. H., Maria L. and Elvira
J. Of these, the following named are deceased: George, Elizabeth, Rebecca and
Maria L. George B. Stalcup, of the above, and the oldest child in the family,
was born March 6. 1814, in Tennessee; came with his parents to Indiana; was
married, in August, 1834, to Mary Buckner, who was born June 6, 1813, in North
Carolina, and came with her parents to Greene County when yet a small child. Of
the fourteen children born to them, only two daughters are the survivors. These
are Mary (Mrs. Jacob Bucher) and Josephine (Mrs. Thomas C. Owen). George B.
Stalcup died October 31, 1880, and his widow November 12, 1883. Catharine,or
"Aunt Katy," as she is more familiarly known, is the second born in the family
of James Stalcup. She is a native of Tennessee, her birth occurring January 26,
1816. She was married to John Jones, a native of South Carolina, March 26, 1835,
by whom she had two children, only one—Mrs. Margaret Howe, of Worthington—being
the only survivor. Mr. Jones died December 8, 1838, and two years later his
widow became Mrs. Benjamin C. Ballard. Four years later, she was again left a
widow with two children by her second husband, as follows: John J. and Ellen
(Mrs. D. H. Wylie). Mrs. Ballard deserves no small amount of credit for the
success she has made in life. She was widowed both times with heavy burdens to
be borne, with small children to care for, and pecuniary embarrassments to
overcome, but under these discouraging features she went to work with
determination, and this is the result: Besides rearing and amply educating her
own children, she has extended the hand of charity liberally to other children
in a like manner. She and son own upward of 900 acres of some of Greene County's
best land, and they are considered among the best of Highland Township's
citizens. William B. H. Stalcup, the sixth born of the children of James
Stalcup, is a native of the township and county where he now resides, his birth
occurring April 6, 1828. His marriage with Susan R. Ballard was solemnized in
1848, and two children were the result of this union—Benjamin and one that died
in infancy unnamed. The mother was born in Shelby County, Ky., July 5, 1831.
Benjamin Stalcup was born September 5, 1849, and October 5, 1870, Miss Ella R.
Osborn became his wife. Bertha C. is their only living offspring. Benjamin has
been a teacher in the schools of Greene County for a number of terms, and
besides being well informed on the leading topics of the day, he is enterprising
and one of the county's promising young men. The Stalcup family are descended
from Swiss ancestors but for many generations they have been residents of the
United States. As a class of people they have devoted the greater part of their
lives to farming and with but few exceptions they have always lived on the
frontier, where their strength and skill as frontiersmen have served them with
homes, even rude though it may have been. In politics, as in religious matters,
they are independent, each individual member adhering to his own views, and they
are universally capable of supporting their ideas with sound logic and
reasoning. For further particulars of the Stalcup family, refer to the
historical department.

Additional Comments:
Highland Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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