The Stull Family of Eldred Township, Pennsylvania

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This name, originally Stoll, was borne by John Stoll, a Hollander and a resident of the township of Frankford, Sussex county, New Jersey. Many Dutch and German families settled at an early day in Sussex, coming from the eastern part of New Jersey, the lower counties of New York state, Long Island, and in some cases from New England.

(I) John Stoll

John Stoll is the first of whom record is found in Sussex county, where he married and had male issue. He was the father of:

  1. Captain Jacob Stoll or Stull. Of whom further.

(II) Captain Jacob Stoll or Stull

Captain Jacob Stoll or Stull, son of John Stoll, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, 1741, died at Elmira, New York, November 14, 1809. He served in the revolutionary war, first as assistant of the Second Regiment, Sussex county, New Jersey, troops; later was promoted captain. He was engaged at the battles of Quinton’s Bridge, Three Rivers, Hancock’s Bridge, Connecticut Farms, Van Nest’s Mill, Long Island, Trenton (Assanpink), Princeton, Germantown, Springfield and Monmouth, serving with distinction. He was accompanied to the war by his son John, a lad of twelve, who served in the wagon trains as packhorse boy. Captain Jacob Stull was at this time a resident of New Jersey, but after the war moved to New York state settling at Elmira, where he owned a good farm of over two hundred acres. Descendants of Captain Stull are yet found in that locality. He is buried by the side of his wife in the family plot on the old farm. He married Sarah Pipenger, born 1743, died in Elmira, New York, November 2, 1830. She was of English descent, and until her death drew a pension from the government on account of her husband’s patriotic service in the revolution.

(III) Joseph Stull

Joseph, son of Captain Jacob and Sarah (Pipenger) Stull, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, January 18, 1777; died on his farm in Eldred township, McKean county, Pennsylvania, December 2, 1866. He was a farmer of Chenango and Steuben counties, New York, until 1808, when he came to Pennsylvania, settling in what is now Eldred township, McKean county. He was accompanied by his brother John and they at once began a clearing. Each had a ten-acre lot well cleared, when they discovered they were on another man’s property. Joseph moved to what is now Stulltown, McKean county, where he cleared a farm and lived until his death. He married, January 18, 1802, Delinda Brewer, born in Dutchess county, New York, April 17, 1782, died in Eldred township, June 6, 1862, daughter of Abraham and Eunice (Griswold) Brewer, a union with two of the old colonial families.

Children of Abraham and Eunice (Griswold) Brewer

  1. Delinda Brewer. Of previous mention.
  2. Abraham Brewer. Died in Chenango county, New York, a farmer, married and left issue.
  3. Abigail Brewer. Married John Stull, brother of Joseph, a farmer. She died on the homestead at Elmira, New York.

Children of Joseph and Delinda (Brewer) Stull

The first four were born in the town of Starka, Chenango county, New York.

  1. Alma Stull. Born August 15, 1804, died in Scioto county, Ohio; married Lynds Dodge, died in Eldred township, McKean county, Pennsylvania, a farmer and a lumberman. Children, all deceased:
    1. Eulalia Dodge.
    2. Mary Dodge.
    3. Eliza Dodge.
    4. Matilda Dodge.
    5. Luman Dodge.
    6. Joseph Dodge.
    7. Henry Dodge.
  2. Abraham Stull. Born August 21, 1806, died in Eldred township, McKean county, a farmer; married Philena Green, who died in Eldred township. Children, all deceased:
    1. Handford Stull.
    2. George Stull.
    3. Philista Stull.
    4. Alice Stull.
  3. John Stull. Of whom further.
  4. Abigail Stull. Born August 29, 1811, died at Port Allegany, Pennsylvania; married (first) David Groman, (second) Joseph Long, a farmer and a soldier in the war of 1812. Children of second marriage:
    1. George Long. Deceased.
    2. Joseph Long. Now living at Port Allegany.
  5. Camilla Stull. Born in Eldred township, McKean county, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1813, died in Harrisonville, Scioto county, Ohio; married John L. Daniels, of Marietta, Ohio, a school teacher, died in Harrisonville. Children:
    1. James Daniels. Died in the Union army during the civil war.
    2. Artemesia Daniels. Died in 1912.
    3. Mary Daniels. Now living in San Bernardino, California.
    4. Camilla Daniels. Living in Ohio.
    5. Alma Daniels. Living in East Liverpool, Ohio.
    6. Lee Quincy Daniels. Deceased, a veteran of the civil war.
  6. Caleb Baker Stull. Born in Eldred township, March 16, 1816, died there a farmer; married Caroline Boorhees (?), of Farmer’s Valley, Pennsylvania. Children:
    1. Ridgway Stull. Deceased.
    2. Orsarilla Stull. Living in Olean, New York.
    3. Cynthia Stull. Deceased.
    4. Arthur Stull. Living in Eldred, Pennsylvania.
    5. Ann Stull. Deceased.
    6. John Stull. Living in Coveyville, Pennsylvania.
    7. Daniel Stull. Living in the state of Washington.
    8. Grant Stull. Deceased.
    9. George Stull. Deceased.
  7. Laurinda H. Stull. Married Arthur Young (see Young).
  8. Mary Delinda Stull. Born in Eldred township, March 10, 1820, died there after two marriages; married (first) Rev. Charles Coe, a Methodist minister. Child:
    1. Cyrenus Coe. A captain in the civil war, deceased.

    She married (second) John Nolan, a farmer of Emporium, Pennsylvania. Children:

    1. John Nolan. Living in Cameron county, Pennsylvania.
    2. Merrick Nolan. Deceased.
  9. Jerome K. Stull. Born in Farmer’s Valley, Pennsylvania, April 21, 1822, died there a farmer, married Ann Maria Kent. Children:
    1. Dulcina Stull. Deceased.
    2. Joseph C. Stull. Now living in Portville, Pennsylvania.
    3. Baker J. Stull. Deceased.
    4. Flora Stull. Living at Turtle Point, Pennsylvania.
    5. Sylvester Stull. Deceased.
  10. George R. Stull. Born in Farmer’s Valley, March 3, 1824, died there a merchant; married Catherine Lewis, of New York City. Children:
    1. George Stull. Deceased.
    2. Joseph Stull. Deceased.
  11. Joseph Stull. Born in Farmer’s Valley, April 21, 1826, died in Eldred township, a farmer; married Lucinda Myers. Children:
    1. Favoretta Stull. Living in Wayland, New York.
    2. Cameron Stull. Living in Eldred township.

(IV) John (2) Stull

John (2), second son of Joseph and Delinda (Brewer) Stull, was born in Brading, Steuben county, New York, December 31, 1808. When an infant he was brought to McKean county, Pennsylvania, by his parents who settled at Stulltown on a farm. He was educated in the public school and became a carpenter, working in New York and Pennsylvania, later a farmer. In 1883 he moved to Smethport, where he died. He and his wife were members of the Baptist church. He married Phoebe Wright, widow of Samuel E. Windsor, who died in Franklinville, New York, by whom she was the mother of Orlando, deceased; William E., died in 1911, in Larrabee, Pennsylvania, and Lewis, deceased.

Children of Samuel E. Windsor and Phoebe Wright

  1. Orlando Windsor. Deceased.
  2. William E. Windsor. Died in 1911, in Larrabee, Pennsylvania.
  3. Lewis Windsor. Deceased.

Phoebe Wright was born in Ceres, Pennsylvania, March 1, 1814, died in Eldred township, McKean county, September 17, 1883, daughter of Rensselaer Wright, born about 1791, a farmer and hotel keeper of Eldred, where he died about 1871; he married and reared a family of ten.

Children of Rensselaer Wright

They are not known to be in exact order of birth.

  1. Phoebe Wright. Of previous mention.
  2. James Wright. Died in Honeoye, Potter county, Pennsylvania, a lumberman; married Mary Estey, of Ceres; two children, names not given.
  3. Phelps Wright. Died in Michigan, a lumberman; married a Miss Brown; two children, names not given.
  4. John Wright. Died in Eldred, Pennsylvania, a lumberman and farmer; married Editha Moses, of Cuba, New York. Children:
    1. William Wright. Of Olean, New York.
    2. Edick Wright. Lives at Eldred, on the old homestead.
    3. John Wright. Of Olean.
  5. Carl Wright. Now living at Coles Creek, Pennsylvania, a lumberman, farmer and oil producer; married (first) Jerusha Dennis, deceased, who was the mother of his children:
    1. Burt Wright.
    2. Other children. Names not given.

    There was no issue by his second marriage.

  6. George Wright. Died in Eldred township in 1867, a lumberman; married a Miss Paine, who survives him with issue, a resident of Eldred. She married (second) Williard Cummings, also deceased.
  7. Junius Wright. Died in Eldred, a farmer; married Elizabeth Moddy, of Coveyville, Pennsylvania, who survives him residing in Eldred.
  8. Sarah (Sally) Wright. Died in Smethport, Pennsylvania; married Nathan Palmer, of Ceres, a hotel keeper of Port Allegany, Pennsylvania. Children:
    1. Adelbert Palmer.
    2. Three other children. Names not given.
  9. Martha Wright. Died in Smethport; married a cousin, Wright, a journalist; no issue.
  10. Maria Wright. Died in Michigan; married Russell Miller, a farmer; left issue.

Children of John and Phoebe (Wright-Windsor) Stull

All were born in Eldred township, McKean county.

  1. James H. Stull. Of whom further.
  2. Maria Stull. Born April 10, 1841, died in Duke Center, Pennsylvania, April 10, 1891; married Randall Middaugh, of Portville, New York, also deceased. Children:
    1. Nettie Middaugh. Now living in Ohio, married.
    2. Lily Middaugh. Died aged twenty months.
  3. Almeda Stull. Born November 15, 1843; married Dana Nichols, of Eldred township, where they reside on their farm. Child:
    1. Mellie Nichols. Born 1870.
  4. John E. Stull. Born November 8, 1845, now a retired farmer of East Smethport; married Adelaide Higgin, of Warsaw, New York. Child:
    1. Clyde Stull. Born August 5, 1881, freight agent at Smethport Depot, unmarried.
  5. Leroy Stull. Born February 28, 1854, now a farmer near Cuba, New York.

(V) James H. Stull

James H., eldest son of John (2) and Phoebe (Wright-Windsor) Stull, was born in Eldred township, McKean county, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1839. He was three years of age when his parents moved to Portville, New York, where he was educated in the public school, finishing in the high school. His first work was on a farm, later under his father’s instruction he learned the carpenter’s trade. After he returned to Pennsylvania, he taught one term in the Stulltown public school. After his military service he returned to Pennsylvania, and followed his trade in Eldred township, McKean county, where he later purchased a farm. He continued carpentering and farming until October 1, 1883, when he moved to Smethport, where he still resides.

He enlisted in 1861 in Company H, One Hundred and Tenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, which was shortly afterwards consolidated with the Fifty-eighth Regiment. On November 7, 1862, he was transferred to Company D, Fourth Regiment, United States Light Artillery, in which he served until his term of enlistment expired. He reenlisted February 1, 1864, in the same battery, continuing in the service until the close of the war, receiving honorable discharge, February 1, 1867, serving two years after the war in Texas. He took part in nineteen battles, among which were: Black Water Run, ten miles from Suffolk, Virginia, fought between the forces commanded by General Corcoran and General Smith during the siege of Suffolk. In that engagement his battery was hard pressed and lost many men. He was with Grant in front of Petersburg, where his battery was engaged, May 9, 1864, and again on May 13, 1864, they were sharply engaged eight miles from Richmond, suffering severe loss. They crossed the Appomattox, June 14, 1864, took the heights of Petersburg and placed forty-eight pieces of artillery in position on the crest of the hill. His services continued through the battles before Richmond until the final surrender of General Lee, April 3, 1865. He is a member of Knights of the Maccabees, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics is a Republican.

He married, March 8, 1870, Ann Eliza (Terry) Keyes, born in the village of Greene, New York, February 4, 1841. At nine years of age her father gave her to her uncle Salmon Montague Rose, with whom she lived five years in Smethport, Pennsylvania, where she was educated in the public schools. She is a member of the Maccabees and of the Methodist Episcopal church. Her father Thomas Terry was born in Connecticut, about 1806, died at Afton, in Chenango county, New York, July 1, 1851, a cloth manufacturer; he married Mary Rose, born in Binghamton, New York, 1808, died in Afton, August 10, 1849. Mary Rose was the daughter of Salmon Montague Rose, a root and herb doctor, who died in Smethport, Pennsylvania, 1847.

Children of Salmon Montague Rose

  1. Hinsdale Rose. A farmer, died in New York; married Sophronia Barrett. Children:
    1. Henry Rose.
    2. Marian Rose.
    3. Lucy Rose.
    4. William Rose.
    5. Emory Rose.
    6. Amelia Rose.
  2. John Rose. Died in Canastota, New York, an official of the Erie railroad; married and had a family.
  3. A son. Name not given.
  4. Salmon Montague Rose. A lumberman, died in Auburn, New York; married Eliza Burdick, from Potato Creek, Pennsylvania; no issue.
  5. Mary Rose. Of previous mention, married Thomas Terry.
  6. Lucy Rose. Died in the west; married Asa Sartwell, a lumberman of McKean county and left issue.
  7. Sherland Rose. Died in the west, a merchant.

Children of Thomas and Mary (Rose) Terry

All were born in New York state.

  1. Violetta Terry. Born 1832; married Ferris Loop, of Windsor; died in Savannah, Illinois, a school teacher and bookkeeper. Children:
    1. Edwin Loop. Deceased.
    2. Mary Loop. Living in Iowa.
    3. Alice Loop. Living in Savannah.
    4. Flavia Loop. Living in Savannah.
    5. Kate Loop.
  2. John Terry. Born 1834, died in Warren, Pennsylvania, in 1897; a veteran of the civil war serving from New York; married a widow, Mrs. (Freeman) Middaugh; no issue.
  3. Annetta Terry. Born 1836, died in Iowa, in 1902; married (first) a Van Valkenburg. Children:
    1. Mabel Van Valkenburg.
    2. Anna Van Valkenburg.
    3. Five other children. Names not given.

    She married (second) a Lewis; no issue.

  4. Silas Terry. Born in July, 1838, now a retired merchant of Harmony, Clay county, Indiana; married Acena Smith, a native of Indiana; no issue.
  5. Ann Eliza Terry. Of previous mention, wife of James H. Stull.
  6. Mary Terry. Born in January, 1847, died in January, 1852.

Ann Eliza Terry was a widow at the time of her marriage to James H. Stull. She married (first) September 10, 1859, Melvin Keyes, born December 15, 1838, in Portage, New York, died September 14, 1869, in Pike, Wyoming county, New York, a farmer of Eldred township.

Children of Melvin and Ann Eliza (Terry) Keyes

  1. Mary Keyes. Born in Eldred, February 7, 1861; married Nathan Miller, of Centerville, New York, where they reside on their farm. Children:
    1. Elma Miller. Married Carl Whitney, a farmer of Centerville.
    2. Bertha Miller. Married Howard Hamer, a farmer of Centerville.
    3. Ernest Miller. A farmer of Centerville, married Ethel Hamer.
    4. Earl Miller. A farmer of Centerville; married —–.
    5. Myrtle Miller. Married a farmer of Centerville.
    6. Clarence Miller. Unmarried.
  2. Annette Keyes. Born in Eldred, April 1, 1863, died in February, 1873.
  3. Franklin Augustus Keyes. Born in Eldred, October 21, 1864, died February, 1873.

Children of James H. and Ann Eliza (Terry-Keyes) Stull

All were born in Eldred, Pennsylvania.

  1. Myrtle Rose Stull. Born August 10, 1874; married George Howard, of Arcade, New York, now an oil well driller and foreman for the Crosby Chemical Company, of the gas wells, and is also a contractor; living at Smethport, Pennsylvania. Children:
    1. Nettie Elizabeth Howard. Born August 20, 1896.
    2. Harold Howard. Born January, 1898.
    3. Erma Howard. Born December 25, 1901.
    4. Ralph Howard. Born January, 1904.
  2. Cora Mundane Stull. Born October 31, 1876; married Fred Nourse and resides on their farm near Smethport. Children:
    1. Forrest Nourse. Born March 3, 1896.
    2. Loida M. Nourse. Born October, 1898.
    3. Lois Nourse. Born December 17, 1906.
  3. Grace Belle Stull. Born July 11, 1878; married Alfred Hoskins, a farmer, now living near Centerville, New York. Children:
    1. Raymond Hoskins. Born December, 1897.
    2. Sylvia Hoskins. Born September, 1899.
    3. Robert Hoskins. Born 1900.
  4. Hattie May Stull. Born March 7, 1882; married Clayton Wales, of Friendship, New York, now living in Bolivar, New York, a teamster, following the oil fields.

See: Genealogy of the Allegheny Valley Pennsylvania

Source

Jordan, J. W. 1840-1921. (1913). Genealogical and personal history of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co.

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