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The Stalcup Saga (as it pertains to Grayson County, Texas)  Levi Hurd Stalcup and Mary Ann Young Newbold Stalcup Levi
Hurd Stalcup was number 10 in the sibling hierarchy and one of three of
them that arrived in Grayson County, Texas in the late 1870s. He was
born July 25, 1841 at Mouse Creek, Tennessee. Four months before his
21st birthday, Levi became a Private in Co. F, 39th Tennessee
Mounted Infantry when it was organized in March 1862. Along with almost
29,000 men, Levi became a prisoner of war July 3, 1863 at the
conclusion of the Siege of Vicksburg. Due to the extreme numbers at
Vicksburg most of the P.O.W.'s were granted parole. However, "parole"
did not translate into immediate "freedom". He was taken to
Ft.
Nashville for six months; a trip to Louisville, Kentucky,
then
across the Ohio River into Indiana; released to fend for themselves;
they could not return home until the war was over. However, good things
can come from bad things. Levi found employment at a government bakery;
secured a room at a boarding house; and then, he met his landlord's
sister. Mary Ann (Young) Newbold was a divorcee with a four
year
old son - Christopher C. Newbold. A native of Clark County, Indiana and
number seven of nine known children, Mary was born to Christopher and
Barbara (Mitchell) Young on July 22, 1839. Levi and Mary married in
Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana November 24, 1864. Two sons, John
Fontaine and William Moses, were born to them during the years they
lived there.
Levi then moved his family to the Stalcup farm at Mouse Creek, Tennessee where two more children were born, Barbary A. and Thomas L. When Levi Stalcup left McMinn County, Tennessee in 1862 it had been with the men of Company F; fifteen years later his traveling companions included his wife and 5 children; younger brother Chris and family; and their widowed mother Nancy Stalcup. Destination? Grayson County, Texas. Not surprisingly, the Stalcup brothers chose to settle in Pottsboro in very close proximity to their sister Fannie Etter's family. Older brother John W. was only a few miles distant. Levi chose an 80 acre tract of land and within a few years had almost 30 acres under cultivation. Oldest son Chris found work as a hired hand on a neighboring farm. The winter of 1880 dealt the family a harsh blow when both younger children were struck down with typhoid fever: Barbary A. - born March 9, 1870; and Thomas L. - born June 12, 1874 - both succumbed to the illness the same day, December 31, 1880, and are buried in Georgetown Cemetery, Pottsboro, Texas. Their graves are marked with a shared headstone. The three older sons grew up to be productive young men. Christopher C. Newbold, born June 12, 1859 Indiana; went into the carpenter business; married later in life and fathered 4 sons and 3 daughters John Fontaine - born August 9, 1865 Indiana; married Molly Wyatt Perdue - May 12, 1887 , Grayson County, Texas; oldest 2 of their eventual 6 children (4 sons,2 daughters) were born in Grayson County.
William Moses - born April 25, 1867 Indiana; married Millicent Catherine Hull November 19, 1889, Grayson County, Texas; 3 daughters, 4 sons; first child was born in Pottsboro in 1890. Levi, Mary and all 3 sons moved to the farming community of Odell, Wilbarger County, Texas in 1891. Both Levi and Mary died in Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas, circa 1926. C. A. Parsons January 16, 2021 Stalcup Index  Biography Index Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
