JOHN STAMPS

STAMPS, BOHANNAN

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/19/2009 at 12:20:36

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

JOHN STAMPS, far., S. 31; P.O. Seymour; born in White Co., Tenn., in 1813; his father, Sandford S., a farmer of that county, died in 1824, or when John was 11 years of age; his mother married a second time at the age of 19. Married Miss Sarah Bohannan; she was born in White Co., Tenn., in 1814; her father, Lewis A., a resident of that county, a farmer and stock dealer and a man well known and highly respected throughout the county and of considerable wealth, died in 1853. In 1835, they came to Macoupin Co., Ill., engaged in farming there for three years, and then went to Morgan Co., thence to Texas, where he was entitled to 640 acres of land under the old Spanish Right, and there he remained for eighteen months; helped to lay out Franklin county seat of Robinson Co.; during the year 1840 he returned to McDonough Co., Ill., where he engaged in farming, wheelwrighting, etc.; bought a farm which he retained until 1850, when they came to this county, where he now owns 183 acres of land, valued at $20 per acre; has owned 170 acres beside what he has given to his children. They have five children - Nancy C., Margaret J., Zilpha E., Mary A. and Elijah B. Democratic. Has held the office of Tp. Trustee and School Treasurer. Mr. Stamps had to bear his share of the burdens of pioneer life in Iowa, and one among the many was going seventy-five miles to mill; at the time of his coming to Appanoose, nothng was to be had any nearer; the trip required thirty one days; the first season after coming, he made two of them; built a house and raised corn enough, wthin fourteen bushels, to supply his requirements; after reaching here on the 22d of May, was offered $2.50 per bushel for meal at Hurly's mill; has made all he has since coming to Appanoose.