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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 20 Jul 2005 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Clear Creek Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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JOSEPH STANTON, farmer; P. O. Springboro; born in Dinwiddie Co., Va., Aug. 6, 1812. The earliest information obtained of the Stanton family dates back to three brothers who came from England to America in 1640; one settled in New England, one in Virginia and one in North Carolina. From the North Carolina family descended Edwin M. Stanton, former Secretary of War. From the Virginia family descended the subject of this sketch. It is well established that James Stanton, born in Virginia, in 1690, was a grandson of the first progenitor, who settled there in 1640. James was the father of eight children, of whom Sampson Stanton was the grandfather of our subject, and was born in Virginia Aug. 7, 1736; he married Ruth Winburn, by whom he had three sons and one daughter - James, born Jan. 9, 1771, died July 18, 1827; John born Sept. 28, 1772, died April 1, 1827; Sarah, born March 20, 1774, died April 13, 1813, and Daniel, born May 25, 1776, died April 13, 1806. John was the father of our subject; was married, in Virginia, to Lydia Butler, a daughter of John Butler, a native of Virginia, who lived and died in his native State; by this union they had nine children; six grew to maturity - Elizabeth, Jonathan, Edna, Deborah, Joseph and Mary, all now deceased but the subject of this sketch, who, when his father died, was about 15 years of age. In the spring of 1828, he with his brother Jonathan came to Ohio and located in Warren County; here he grew to manhood. On Feb. 1, 1837, he was |
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united in marriage with Catharine A., daughter of James and Ann (Jones) Stanton, he a native of Virginia and she of North Carolina. The grandparents were James and Ann Stanton. The maternal grandparents were Lemuel and Catharine Jones, born in North Carolina, and who lived and died in their native State. The parents of Mrs. Stanton (James and Ann), came to Ohio in the fall of 1825, and, in the spring of 1826, located on the place where our subject now resides and here lived till their death; he died Jan. 3, 1852; his wife died May 22, 1844; they had three children - William R., now residing in Michigan; Catharine Ann and Deborah J., who married Samuel Lloyd and now resides in Kansas. Catharine Ann was born in Virginia Jan. 27, 1820. Mr. Stanton and wife have had six sons and six daughters, eight now living - Lydia B., married Walter Moore and resides in Washington Co., Ind.; John F. married Emily Hadley and resides in Indianapolis; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Charles F. Chapman; Thomas E. married Phoebe Jane Schenk; Mary Emma; William Edward married Juliet Keever, and is a practicing physician at Ridgeville; Ellen J. and Walter C. who reside at St. Paul, Minn. Mr. Stanton's married life has all been spent in Clear Creek Township; he bought and located upon the place where he now lives in the spring of 1852, where he has since resided; this was the old home place of Mrs. Stanton's father, where he settled in 1826. Mrs. Stanton's father, James Stanton, was a strong Abolitionist and rendered assistance to the slave to gain his freedom wherever it was possible to be obtained. |
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