Matthais STURM,, SR.
Name, birth and death dates and places and burial place from Ancestral file 5/2001 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
Name, birth date and place, death date and place, burial place, marriage date and place from Ancestral File v4.19 5/2001
Name, birth date and place, death date and place from Ancestral File v4.19 5/2001 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 15 528 555 Sturm Henry S. 41 M Farmer 560 Ohio 16 528 555 Sturm Betsey 40 F Ohio 17 528 555 Sturm Isabella 18 F Ohio SCH X 18 528 555 Sturm Matthias A. 15 M Farmer Ohio SCH X 19 528 555 Sturm Samuel 13 M Illinois SCH X 20 528 555 Sturm Betsey 11 F Illinois SCH X 21 528 555 Sturm Margaret 9 F Illinois SCH X 22 528 555 Sturm Martha 7 F Illinois SCH X 23 528 555 Sturm Hannah S. 5 F Illinois SCH X 24 528 555 Sturm Solomon 2 M Illinois No marriage information in Illinois Marriage Index. From the census information I would think they had to be married in Ohio, rather than in Illinois as the Ancestral File record indicated. Interview with Henry Seeley Sturm Stolen :) from Stark County and its Pioneers by Mrs. E. H. Shallenberger (Cambridge, Ill.: B. W. Seaton, Prairie Chief Office, Book and Job Printer, 1876 Pages 353-6) The Sturms This is a very large family. The writer had no convenient means of ascertaining how many of this name inhabited, and still do inhabit Stark county. One branch of this genealogical tree seems to have taken root on LaSalle Prairie, Peoria county, at an early day. From there (we think) came Lewis Sturms, among the first names mentioned in our annals, but who must have left again after a few years. In September, 1834, came Matthias Sturms, or as he was familiarly called "Uncle Tias;" with him, from the state of Ohio came his wife and ten children, one son-in-law, Kirkpatrick, and one daughter-in-law, the wife of my informant, Henry Sturms. Of these children of Matthias, we can record but little, save their names. The sons as we recall them, were Henry, Nicholas, Samuel, Matthias and Simon. His daughters became Mrs. Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Peter Pratt. Henry married a Miss Osborne, whose family also became residents of the Sturms settlement, and her father was noted among the first settlers as a successful bee hunter. We have elsewhere had occasion to speak of the characteristics of this Sturms family; their very numbers rendered them of importance in a new county, and as we remember them in their prime; they were all stalwart, active men, of rough exterior but kind at heart. At the date of our visit to Henry, now an old man, we found him greatly changed. He is in straightened circumstances, and this misfortune is heightened by the loss of his sight. Confinement to the house in consequences of his blindness, has robbed him of his early vigor, and he seemed sadly depressed in spirits, asserting that "he know nothing that could be of use to anyone." But as we strove to divert his thoughts from the sad realities of the present, to recollections of the past "when he was as well off as his neighbors," memory seamed to awaken once more, and he discoursed freely of the "good old times." He spoke of the encampment of Indians at Walnut grove much as Mr. Seeley had done; thought "he and his wife had seen five hundred pass their door in a single day; they were not afraid had been used to Indians in Ohio, and these Pottawatomies were friendly to the whites." He told us of hunting adventures with out end, thinks he has killed deer at all hours from sundown to sunrise, averaging, at a good season of the year, thirty a week. "He knew their licks," and climbing a tree convenient to them waited their approach and shot them from her perch. "He would then tie them to the tail of his horse with ropes carried for the purpose, and haul them home." Has dragged in three at a time in this way. To the youthful reader, this may sound like a very improbably tale; our horses would certainly object to such proceedings. But the Sturms were not the only men who brought their game home in this fashion as plenty of witnesses yet living can testify. They say it required the knack of an experienced hunter to do it successfully, "there was a great deal in knowing just how to tie them on." Henry Sturms further said that one Sunday morning some thirty years ago, as he and a cousin were walking along the bluffs of Spoon river, he spied in the water a slightly wounded buck; he immediately sprang upon his back, jumping from an elevation of about ten feet, and seizing the animal by the horns, "ducked him" till he was exhausted and breathless, falling an easy prey on the bank. They considered it "bad luck" to carry firearms on Sunday, and on this occasion had in their possession no weapon larger than a pen knife, so proceeded with great care and deliberation to dispatch the poor beast with that; and finally the two men dragged him home (but a short distance) in triumph. These anecdotes will suffice to show something of the life they lived, and the metal of which they were made. This man is among those who would think the undergrowth or thickets with which our woods now abound are of quite recent growth. He is sure all in the vicinity of Osceola grove, have sprung up since his time. Grapes, plums and crab-apples, he says were very scarce when he first saw the Spoon river county, but wild strawberries were abundant. It is curious that upon a matter so simple as this, different opinions should exist, some old settlers protesting that when they first saw these groves they were entirely clear of undergrowth, others, as confidently asserting the opposite state of facts. Mr. Sturms remembers that in his early hunting excursions he frequently came upon the remains of buffalo, think they had once ranged through these parts in large herds, but had perished during "the winter of deep snow," an era we can not date just now, but it occurred some ten or twelve years before the settlement of the Spoon river country. Our informant recalls several valleys containing acres of land literally covered with the bones of these animals; one of these lying between his own place and that of Mr. Searles, in Osceola township. He described particularly the peculiar construction of the shoulder bones, which produce the distinctive hump of this species of buffalo, and we conclude he must have gathered his facts from the observation of the remains, as it is not supposable he ever consulted books for such information. He concludes the buffalo sheltered from the fierceness of the storm in these narrow wooded valleys, but the snow which fell to a depth of four feet on the level prairie, would drift up those gorges and down the hills, and actually bury them alive, and as the intense cold soon crusted it over, there would be no escape from starvation. That the deer perished in a similar manner, about the same time, is a fact well established, and in this connection it may not be inappropriate to remark that the elk bones were also found by the early settlers. Dr. Hall remembers a huge skeleton of this animal that lay on the high prairie towards Providence, and served as a "land mark" for years--its bones glittering in the sunlight, could be seen for miles. So Mr. Sturms' theories are not without collateral support. 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. Peter, a local preacher of the Methodist faith, and a well to do farmer lives not far from Bradford in a locality known by the suggestive, but not euphonious appellation of "Hell street." Possibly his philanthropy led him there, that he might beseech of his neighbors to choose better ways. In conclusion we may say of these families, that although they have never been prominent in politics or claimed "high places in the synagogues," yet they have been by no means wanting in religious fervor. The cabin of 'Uncle Tias" was one of the first meeting places of the Methodist fraternity, and the Sturms' school house was remarkable for displays of "the power" and enthusiasm generally, that would astonish the most ardent advocate of camp meeting excitement, now-a-days. But the present generation, the Sturms of to-day is quite another being to the Sturms of forty years ago. They are losing the characteristics of backwoodsmen, or frontiersmen, and growing just like their neighbors. In fact, public schools, equal rights, and Paris fashions are obliterating all the differences among our western people, reducing them to a dead level, or as near that as nature permits. This may be right and best, but after all, we rather enjoy contemplating the diversities ion the genus homo, and can hardly see how society would be the gainer by making people all just alike, if this were possible.
Name, birth date and place, death date and place of burial from Ancestral File v4.19 5/2001 Information from Descendants of Matthias Sturm http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sturm/matthias.htm is different than ancestral file. b. Shelby Co., Ohio 1807. I am not sure it is Shelby Co. as they didn't move there until after that according to bio in Henry's notes. Need some checking. IF she was born in 1808 as indicated by Ancestral File then it could be Shelby Co.
Name, birth date and place, death date and place and marriage date and place from Ancestral File v4.19 5/2001 CENSUS YR: 1850 STATE or TERRITORY: IL COUNTY: STARK DIVISION: No. 29 REEL NO: M432-129 PAGE NO: 232B REFERENCE: Enumerated the 5th day of Oct. 1850 by Thomas J. Henderson ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/il/stark/1850/ 5 498 524 Sturm Nicholas 41 M Farmer 1,500 Kentucky 6 498 524 Sturm Catharine 40 F Ohio R/W X 7 498 524 Sturm Sarah J. 18 F Ohio 8 498 524 Sturm Lucinda 14 F Illinois SCH X 9 498 524 Sturm Matthias 11 M Illinois SCH X 10 498 524 Sturm Lavina 9 F Illinois SCH X 11 498 524 Sturm Hiram 6 M Illinois SCH X 12 498 524 Sturm Erastus 2 M Illinois 13 498 524 Sturm John 21 M Farmer Ohio SCH X Illinois Marriagre Index STURM, NICHOLAS SAXTON, MANIMA STARK 04/14/1853 001/0056 STURM, NICHOLAS NEWTON, SARAH STARK 01/25/1868 002/0013 Osceola Cemetery Row 9 Monima Sturm, wife of N. Sturm, d Oct 14, 1867 in the 63rd of her age Nicholas Sturm d 21 Mar 1886 age 78y 4m 13d Catharine Sturm, wife of N. Sturm, d Dec 22, 1852 age 43 y 6m Morgan, son of N & C Sturm d 11 Dec 1846 age (Date buried - stone has been reset) Lavina, dau of N & C Sturm, d 13 May 1855 age 11 y 3m Erastus, son of N & C Sturm, d 3 Apr 1855 age 7 yrs Mathias Sturm, d. 3 Apr 185? 16 yrs 8 m, 1 d.
Name, birth date and place, death date and place, place of burial from Ancestral File v4.19 5/2001 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 http://www.rootsweb.com/~cenfiles/il/stark/1850/pg0227b.txt 34 531 558 Sturm Matthias Senr. 65 M Farmer 2,500 Virginia X 35 531 558 Sturm Elisabeth 68 F Virginia X 36 531 558 Kirkpatrick Hannah 35 F Ohio X 37 531 558 Porter Ira 16 M Farmer Ohio X 38 531 558 Kirkpatrick Jane 12 F Illinois X 39 531 558 Kirkpatrick Morris 10 M Illinois X 40 531 558 Kirkpatrick William 28 M Laborer Ohio 41 531 558 Shaw Melinda A. 19 F Ohio X I don't know who William Kirkpatrick is nor Melinda A. Shaw or Ira Porter
Name, birth date and place,death date and burial place from Ancestral File v4.19 5/2001 CENSUS YR: 1850 STATE or TERRITORY: IL COUNTY: STARK DIVISION: No. 29 REEL NO: M432-129 PAGE NO: 232A REFERENCE: Eunumerated the 5th day of Oct. 1850 by Thomas J. Henderson ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/il/stark/1850/pg0227b.txt 12 493 518 Sturm Samuel 37 M Farmer 300 Ohio R/W X 13 493 518 Sturm Elisabeth 28 F Pennsylvania 14 493 518 Sturm Lydia 10 F Illinois 15 493 518 Sturm John 8 M Illinois 16 493 518 Sturm Anthony 7 M Illinois 17 493 518 Sturm Susan 5 F Illinois 18 493 518 Sturm Wesley 3 M Illinois 19 493 518 Sturm William F. 7/12 M Illinois 20 493 518 Sturm Mary F. 7/12 F Illinois 1880 Cenus, Osceola Twp, Stark Co., Illinois, E. D. 278, Ancestry. com Image 17 Sturm, Sam, 66, farmer, OH KY KY E. 58, wife, PA PA PA O. C. , dau, 23 IL OH PA James, son, 20, IL OH PA Terwilliger, Libbie, granddaughter, 12, IL NY IL Terwilliger, Wm, grandson, 10, IL NY IL Osceola Cemetery: Hiram D. son of S and EH Sturm, d 5 Mar 1854 age 2 mos 7 days George W. son of S & EH Sturm, d 11 May 1854 age 2 yrs 2 mos. Children of Sam and Elizabeth H. Sturm Elmer H. d May 19, 1863 age 5 mos 11 days Ella J. d Aug 26, 1863, age 8 mos 28 days Thomas W. (Sturm) d 5 Aug 1871 age 23yrs 7 mos 25 days
Name, birth date and place, from Ancestral File v4.19 5/2001 Check on place of birth, Miami Co. or Shelby Co.
Name, and place, death date and marriage date and place from Ancestral File v4.19 5/2001 Birth year from 1850 Census Not sure of birth place, as it didn't show up on Geographic place site. There is a Miami County in Ohio near Shelby county.
Name, birth date and place, from Ancestral File v4.19 5/2001 Not sure of place of birth
Name, birth date and place, death date and place, place of burial from Ancestral File v4.19 5/2001 Illinois Marriage Index STURM, SIMON MILLER, S S STARK 04/28/1842 001/0012 CENSUS YR: 1850 STATE or TERRITORY: IL COUNTY: STARK DIVISION: No. 29 REEL NO: M432-129 PAGE NO: 233B REFERENCE: Enumerated the 8th day of Oct. 1850 by Thomas J. Henderson ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/il/stark/1850/pg0227b.txt 6 514 540 Sturm Simon 28 M Farmer Ohio 7 514 540 Sturm Sarah 25 F Pennsylvania 8 514 540 Sturm Cyrus 7 M Illinois X 9 514 540 Sturm James 5 M Illinois 10 514 540 Sturm Mary A. 1 F Illinois 11 514 540 Sturm Mahala 2/12 F Illinois
He married Elizabeth Reilly, ** * 4 Sep 1806 at Champaign, Ohio . Elizabeth Reilly, ** * was born at Virginia 1781 .
They were the parents of 9
children:
Henry Seely Sturm
born 1807.
Susan Sturm
born 4 Jul 1810.
Nicholas Sturm
born 1808.
Hannah Sturm
born 1812.
Samuel L. Sturm
born 25 Feb 1814.
Mary Sturm
born 1817.
Margaret Sturm
born 1817.
Matthias Sturm, Jr. ***
born 1820.
Simon Sturm
born 1 Jun 1821.
Matthais Sturm,, Sr. died 1 Feb 1862 at Elmira Twp., Stark, Illinois .
Elizabeth Reilly, ** * died 1 Mar 1866 at Elmira Twp., Stark, Illinois .