MARSHALL COUNTY, TN- GOODSPEED BIOGRAPHIES - John Stammer
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JOHN STAMMER is a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Wadley) Stammer.  The father
was born in Alabama in 1805, and the mother in Rutherford County, Tenn.,
where they were married by Squire Nash.  Both parents were professors of
religion.  The father was a farmer and died in 1837, leaving a wife and
four small children.  The mother would go to the field with her children to
hoe corn, pick cotton, or whatever else she could do toward making an
honest living.  While she succedded in that she did vastly more-she
sanctified honest toil with the sweat of a mother's brow, and taught her
little ones the lesson of self-reliance.  After three years she married J.
R. Haskins, and is still living at the ripe age of seventy-seven.  Our
subject was born January 27, 1827, in Rutherford County, Tenn., and had
very meager chances for schooling.  At the age
of eighteen he wedded Margaret A. Bigger, and to them were born three
children, only one of whom is living.  Three years later his wife died, and
in 1851 he was married to Letitia Bigger, sister of his first wife, by whom
she had seven children. Mr. Stammer is a Democrat, and in 1862
enlisted in Company F, Twenty-third Tennessee Infantry, Confederate
Army.  He was captured and confined for nearly a year, but was at last
released.  He acted for some time as quartermaster-sergeant.  Since the was
he has farmed, and has 265 acres of good land.  He is a Mason, and
treasurer and supertendent of Eagleville & Chapel Hill Turnpike.

Surnames: Bigger, Haskins, Nash, Stammer, Wadley
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."