SHELBY COUNTY OHIO - BIO: George Sturm of Perry Township  (1883)

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Transcribed by Marcella Messer.

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History of Shelby County 
Sutton 1883 
Perry Township 
P. 221 

George Sturm 

The first we can learn of the Sturms is that in 1757 Henry Sturm was born in 
Virginia, and came to Ohio, and located in Clarke County; but the time is 
not known, but was prior to the war of 1812, for he had three sons in the 
army who went from Clarke County.  He was married to Elizabeth Weaver, and 
had a family of fourteen children.  George and John, twin brothers, were the 
youngest of the family, and were born in Clarke County, January 321, 1813. 

In August or September, 1814, Henry Sturm and his family moved to what is 
now Shelby County, and located in Green Township.  The nearest white settler 
to them at the time was David Henry, nearly six miles distant, and A. 
Wilkinson in Champaign County, six miles distant.  Here in the woods, George 
Sturm was raised without privelege of schools, the Indians being far more 
numerous in those days than the whites.  George and John at the death of 
their father in 1832 bought the old homestead.  This they owned together for 
a number of years, when George sold his interest to his brother, and removed 
to Illinois, but remained there only a few months, when he returned and 
bought the homestead of his wife’s father- Isaac Stout- in Perry Township, 
section 9, where he now resides.  He was married to Mary A. Stout in 1833. 
They have raised a family of five children, Matilda, Rebecca, Martha, Hannah 
E., and Rachel A.  Isaac Stout located in Perry in 1831.  Mr. Sturm has 
retired from labor, being afflicted with a nervousness that prevents him 
from labor.  His wife also has been a sufferer for years, and is compelled 
to walk with crutches.  Mr. Sturm has been living in the county sixty-eight 
years.