Stacy, Edward P.

STACY

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 7/2/2021 at 20:58:50

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.618

STACY, EDWARD P., farmer, Squaw Township, Sec. 32; P. O. Madora; born April 19, 1844, in Wyandotte county, Ohio; came to this county with parents in 1857; enlisted in Co. B, 18th Iowa Infantry, July, 1862; served as a private during the war and was honorably discharged July 20, 1865, at Little Rock, Arkansas.

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.680

EDWARD P. STACY
Among the representative farmers of Squaw Township is numbered Edward P. Stacy, whose home is on section 34. He is a native of Ohio, born in Wash­ington County, April 19, 1843, and his father, Gideon Stacy, was born in the same state on the 17th of December 1816. There the latter grew to manhood and married Asenith Hays, who was born in New York, August 3, 1816. In 1857 they came by team to Iowa and after residing in Clarke County for one year became residents of Warren County, the father taking up eighty acres of government land in Squaw Township, which has since been the family home. He improved this place and successfully carried on farming here throughout the remainder of his life, dying February 4, 1877. His wife died on the same farm in 1893. In early days he took quite an active and prominent part in public affairs as a representative of the Republican Party and both he and his wife were connected with the Presbyterian Church.
Unto this worthy couple were born the following children, of whom Edward P. is the oldest. Selden H., who is single, still claims Squaw Township as his home though he spends most of the time in Des Moines. He is the owner of a farm adjoining that of our subject. During the Civil War he served for eighteen months as a member of Company B, Eighteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry and was wounded at Poison Springs, Arkansas, being confined in a hospital for a year and a half thereafter. Lucy A., the next of the family, died in childhood. Wesley H. is a resident of Orange, California. Eugene S. resides with our subject. Sarah died in childhood and one died in infancy.
Edward P. Stacy spent the greater part of his boyhood in the state of his nativity and is indebted to the district schools of Ohio for the educational privileges he enjoyed. He accompanied the family on their removal to Iowa and in Squaw Township he was married to Miss Myra Emerson, a native of Illinois, who died about twenty-three years ago. Unto them were born four children: Mary, now the wife of Walter Silliman, a farmer of Squaw Township; Grace and Ellen, both at home; and one who died in infancy.
Mr. Stacy is now the owner of forty acres of the old home place and is successfully engaged in general farming. In 1862, during the dark days of the rebellion, he offered his services to the government, enlisting at Osceola as a private in Company B, Eighteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He took part in the engagements at Springfield, Missouri, and Jenkins Ferry, Arkansas, besides numerous skirmishes, and though never wounded nor taken prisoner, he was in a hospital for seventeen days with measles and still feels the effects of the exposure and hardships of war. As somewhat of a compensation he now receives a pension of twelve dollars per month. He was reared in the Presbyterian faith but is now a member of no church, and by his ballot he supports the Republican Party but takes no active part in public affairs though he is as true and faithful to his country in times of peace as when he followed the old flag to victory on southern battlefields.