Henry STURM, ** *

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CENSUS YR:  1850  STATE or TERRITORY:  IL  COUNTY:  STARK  DIVISION:  No. 29  REEL NO:  M432-129  PAGE NO:  234B
REFERENCE:  Enumerated the 9th day of Oct. 1850 by Thomas J. Henderson
ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/il/stark/1850/pg0227b.txt
34  531  558 Sturm              Matthias Senr. 65   M         Farmer  2,500     Virginia                      R/W X
   35  531  558 Sturm             Elisabeth           68   F                                      Virginia                      R/W  X
   36  531  558 Kirkpatrick    Hannah            35   F                                        Ohio           SCH       X
   37  531  558 Porter             Ira                     16   M         Farmer                 Ohio            SCH  X
   38  531  558 Kirkpatrick    Jane                  12   F                                        Illinois        SCH X
   39  531  558 Kirkpatrick    Morris             10   M                                        Illinois       SCH  X
   40  531  558 Kirkpatrick    William            28   M         Laborer                 Ohio
   41  531  558 Shaw              Melinda A.     19   F                                         Ohio          SCH  X
                  

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1860 Medina, Peoria, Illinois Census, Ancestry Image 22, 15 June 1860, Rome Farms PO
Nicolas Sturm  m 71 VA  Farmer  $6000 $1400
Nancy               f  59  SC
Nicolas            m  17  IL
J... D...son       m  59  VA  farm hand
                  

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The burial date is 4 years before death date.????

Name from Descendants of John Swiger

CENSUS YR:  1850  STATE or TERRITORY:  IL  COUNTY:  STARK  DIVISION:  No. 29  REEL NO:  M432-129  PAGE NO:  234B
REFERENCE:  Enumerated the 9th day of Oct. 1850 by Thomas J. Henderson
ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/il/stark/1850/pg0227b.txt
28  530  557 Sturm          Henry          58   M         Farmer         800       Kentucky
   29  530  557 Sturm          Catharine      55   F                                  South Carolina               R/W  X
   30  530  557 Sturm          Nancy          16   F                                  Ohio                    SCH X
   31  530  557 Sturm          Margaret J.    12   F                                  Ohio                  SCH   X
   32  530  557 Sturm          Rachel A.      9    F                                  Illinois              SCH   X
   33  530  557 Phenix         Lydia P.       6    F                                  Illinois            SCH     X
There were other Phenix listed on an early page

HENRY (JR.) STURM and CATHERINE DALRYMPLE STURM
       Henry Sturm Jr. was born in Mason Co., Kentucky in 1791, while his father and Henry Weaver were working land there. Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the Union June 1, 1792. They moved shortly after 1796, back to Shelby County, Ohio. Henry married Catherine Dalrymple in 1814 when he was twenty three and she was twenty. She was born in South Carolina Feb. 5, 1795, daughter of George Dalrymple and Ann Miller. Henry Jr. was appointed Constable of Perry Township in Shelby County, Ohio on April 6, 1818 by the trustees of the town, a group which included his father, Henry Sr. The pair had eleven children: George Dalrymple Sturm (1816); Peter Sturm (1817); Rebecca Sturm (1818); William Henry Sturm (who died, killed in battle in 1862) soon after moving to Shelby, Co. Ohio in 1822 where father Henry and mother had lived since 1807); Isaac Sturm (1824); Elizabeth Sturm (1827); Abner J. Sturm (1830); Catherine Sturm (1832) the same year grandfather Henry Sturm died; Nancy Sturm (1834); Margaret J. Sturm (1838, Ohio); and finally Rachel Sturm born (1841) in Stark Co. Illinois where the family had moved around 1836, Henry at the age of 45, Catherine 41. The move of the Sturms to Illinois went in phases, and since Matthias Nicholas and Henry all fought in the war of 1812, they were eligible for federal land in Stark County, Ill. The federal land records show several purchases of land by Henry (2); his son Isaac, John T (Ephraim's son); Joseph (Nicholas' son); Lervis (Lewis?,  Nicholas' son); Mathias and Matthias (5) and Nicholas (6) as well as Nicholas II (1) who bought a school in 1836. The election there in August of 1834 saw the name of one Lewis Sturm(s) added to this lists, since he seems to be the first of the Sturm men to settle in Stark County, Illinois. He was about twenty two years old, and he is probably responsible for bringning the rest of the family. By by the county election in August of 1836, of the fifty four votes polled, thirty one were new, including the names of Henry Sturm(s), Mathias Sturm(s) and Henry Seeley among others. Lewis Sturm is assumed to be Henry's nephew, son of Nicholas. The Stark County Illinois census for 1850 lists Henry Sturm, age 58, a farmer, his wife Catharine, age 55, daughter Nancy, 16, Margaret age 12, Rachel age 9 and Lydia P. Phenix age six. His son George D. Sturm is also listed with his family, as well as brother Matthias Sturm Sr. (age 65), Henry Seeley Sturm, age 41, Samuel Sturm (37) Peter, Simon, Abner, and Matthias Sturm Jr. are also listed as heads of families. In Stark County and its Pioneers the Sturms are remembered, many had for a time recorded their last name with an 's':
       "The Sturms family had some of them reached Seele's Point in 1834 and detachments continued to arrive from time to time, making claims near the south part of Osceola Grove, till they had a settlement of their own. They were regular frontier's men, every one "mighty hunters:" of tall stature, combining strength and activity in an unusual degree. Wearing an Indian garb of fringed bucksins, their feet encased in mocasins, with bowie knife at the belt and rifle on the shoulder; no wonder many a new comer started from them in affright, supposing they had encountered genuine "scalpers." But these men were by no means as savage as they seemed, but had hearts to which friend or stranger never appealed in vain. Very many old settlers yet remember they got their first slice of meat from a Sturm's pork barrel, their first meal of corn or potatoes from their fields. An as early as 1836 they had horses, cows, and hogs to sell, and in this way aided others not so well provided." (p. 32-33).
       The family of Matthias and his son Henry Seeley Sturm is remembered prominently in the history of Stark Co. Illinois. Of Henry Jr. there is only "Besides the large family of Matthias, senior, there was another Henry Sturms, brother of the former, whose children for the most part are residents of Stark County. Of this family, we have even less knowledge." (p. 255 see complete text). Henry Jr. died at age 77 six years after the death of Catherine who died in 1862 at age 67, both in Elmira, Stark County Illinois.
                  

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New date of birth and place from  Sturm web page  Margaret was a twin
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sturm/sturm_gen.html

Marriage(s):
	Spouse: 	Thomas Robinson  Disc #66 Pin #695455

	Marriage: abt 1801		Place: 	Mason County, Kentucky
                  

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SAMUEL ROBINSON
From the History of Shelby County, Ohio, pp. 184-6.


A native of Pennsylvania was born in Bucks County, March 3d, 1780. He came to Ohio when a young man with his mother, his father being dead, and located in Clarke County, near Springfield, remained a few years then moved to Champaign County , where he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Sturm, then of Shelby County, born March 11, 1793. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson settled in Champaign County, remained until March, 1815, when he entered and moved his family on the land in Green Township, Shelby County, now owned by George Ginn, in section 19, where they passed the remainder of their days. Mrs. Robinson died Nov. 4, 1875, aged 82 years. Mrs. Robinson died March 31, 1876, aged 96 years. They reared a family of eight children, viz: Henry, Rebecca, Eliza, John, Mary, Rossiter, Elizabeth, and Lydia, all of whom are yet living except Eliza who died in August, 1881. All married and had families. Mrs. Robinson is said to have been the second settler in what is now Green Township, the first being Henry Sturm, the father-in-law of Mr. Robinson. His first improvement on his land was the erection of a log cabin, 14 by 16, one story high, which served them as a dwelling about ten years. Then, about 1825-6, he erected a hewed-log residence. He made clearing land and farming his avocation through life. Shortly after Mr. Robinson settled on his land, one day while walking in the woods he saw a black bear sitting in the forks of a large tree. In order to kill the bear he returned to his house to get the gun, but unfortunately there were no bullets run; so while Mrs. R. made the bullets, he went back to the tree to watch the bear. In a short time Mrs. R. came with the bullets. He loaded his gun and fired. the bear fell backwards; but instead of coming to the ground, it fell in the hollow of the tree, out of sight, and presently a young cub ran up the forks where the old bear sat, and looked down at Mr. R. He thought he had killed the old bear sure. He then cut the tree down, and found the old bear and all of her cubs were dead. But on examination he found his bullet had not touched the bear, but they were all killed by the falling of the tree.


In about 1830 a severe storm passed over the settlement, blew the roof off of Mr. R's house, another in 1834.

From the Sidney Journal June 10, 1870, thanks to Martin Stewart:
"A correspondent in Greene township sends us a short history of Samuel Robinson, of that township, who has arrived at quite a ripe old age. He says that Mr. Robinson was born in Brush Valley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1780. In 1795, he moved, with his parents, to Kentucky, and in 1801 came to Ohio and settled near Springfield. In 1809 Mr. Robinson married a daughter of Henry Sturm, and in 1815 they settled on the farm they now occupy in Greene Township, this county. they have had eleven children, eight of them still living. There are forty- nine grand children, and nine great grand children. Mr. Robinson is yet robust and healthy. He has been a professor of religion for sixty years, and has been a member of the Methodist church for fifty years. One of the editors of this paper is a native of Bucks county, but he does not remember such a place as Brush Valley. It is likely that the march of improvement has invented a new name for the place where Mr. Robinson was born. There is a place called Rush Valley, but our correspondent says that it is distinctly written Brush Valley a number of times among some old documents in the hands of Mr. Robinson."
                  

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Name and birth date and death date from Sturm web page
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George and John were twins
                  

                   John and George were twins

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JOHN STURM

From the History of Shelby County, Ohio pp. 187-88.

Mr. Sturm was born in Clarke County, Ohio, Jan. 31, 1813, and was brought to Shelby County by his parents, Henry and Elizabeth Sturm, in 1814, who settled in what is now Green Township, where they made improvements, and passed the remainder of their days. They were, as near as can be ascertained, the first settlers in Green Township, their nearest neighbors being six miles distant, and their home was what we can justly call a home in the woods, with no one except the Indians near them, and they were everyday visitors, calling to ask some favor of the whit man. they reared a family of twelve children, vis, Matthias, Margaret, Nicholas, Henry, Peter, William, Jacob, Frederick, Ephraim, Elizabeth, George and John. Matthias, Nicholas and Henry served in the war of 1812. All of the above named children are now dead, except George and John, twin brothers. George is now living in Perry Township, Shelby County, and John is living on the home farm in Green Township. Mr. Sturm died June 14, 1832, aged seventy-five years. His companion departed this life April 3, 1840, aged eighty-five years (sic). He had a wide reputation as an expert with his rifle, and was a successful hunter. Mr. John Sturm, the subject of this sketch, was reared a farmer, and spent his minority days on the farm, clearing, grubbing, and preparing the soil for cultivation. On the 30th day of July, 1834, he married Miss Rachel M. Barbee, by whom he reared six children, viz., Elias B., Julia A., John F., David I. Mary E. and Eliza J. Mr. and Mrs. Sturm settled on his father's home farm, where they have since resided.


Miss Barbee, wife of Mr. Sturm, was born in Butler County, Ohio, Aug. 28, 1817, and came to Shelby County with her parents, Elias and Mary Barbee, in 1834, who settled on the N. W. quarter of section 2, Green Township, where Mr. Barbee died Feb. 1, 1842. His companion died Oct. 17, 1871.