Stumbo, William C.

STUMBO

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History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.724

STUMBO, WILLIAM C., farmer, Allen Township, Sec. 3; P. O. Carlisle; born in Lawrence county, Ohio, August 2, 1822; he left his home in Ohio when about twenty-one years of age, and came to Mahaska county, this State, April, 1843, being one of the first settlers of that county; two years later he came to Polk county, and took up a claim on Sec. 36, Allen township, about two miles from his present home; he owns a farm of 230 acres; married Miss Drusilla Langdon, in 1847, a native of Lawrence county, Ohio, who died Oct., 1848; he married again to Nancy Deaton, May 30, 1850, a native of Morgan county, Ind.; they have by this union one son and six daughters: Emaline, Eliza A., Ellen, Lilly B., Flotilla, Geo. E. and Carrie.

History of Warren County, Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1908, by Rev. W. C. Martin, Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois, 1908, p.924

WILLIAM C. STUMBO
William C. Stumbo, residing on section 3, Allen Township, dates his resi­dence in Iowa from 1843 and he has made his home in Warren County since 1845, being therefore numbered among its pioneers. He was born in Law­rence County, Ohio, August 2, 1822, and was there reared upon a farm, being a young man when he came to Iowa with his father, John Stumbo, who en­tered four hundred acres of timber land in Mahaska County, which he sub­sequently sold for twelve thousand dollars. From that county he removed to Richardson County, Nebraska, where he bought a mill site for six hundred dollars and later sold it and forty acres of land for three thousand dollars. He spent his last years in that locality, where he died at the age of seventy-seven years and seven months. His wife survived him passed away at the age of eighty, both being laid to rest in the cemetery at Fall City.
As previously stated William C. Stumbo accompanied his father on his removal to Mahaska County, Iowa, where he spent two years, and during that time he split ten thousand rails to pay for a yoke of cattle and a plow. He then went to Polk County and entered one hundred and sixty acres of land with a warrant and nineteen acres besides in that county and thirty-six acres in Warren County, making in all two hundred and fifteen acres, on which he made his home for twenty-one years. On selling that place he bought another tract of two hundred and thirty-five acres in Polk County, where he lived two years, and then removed to his present farm of two hundred and forty acres in Allen Township, Warren County to the further improvement and cultivation of which he has since devoted his energies. In Polk County, Mr. Stumbo was married in 1847 to Miss Zilla Langdon, who was also born and reared in Lawrence County, Ohio, and died the same year of their marriage. He subsequently wedded Miss Nancy Deaton, who passed away on the 16th of July, 1906, and was laid to rest in the Carlisle cemetery.
By the second union the following children were born: George, a farmer of Polk County, who married Hattie Cummings: Emeline, the wife of Perry Fry, a farmer of Allen Township; Eliza, the wife of William Seid of Idaho, who passed away July 28, 190S.: Ellen, the wife of John H. Randleman of Car­lisle; Lillie, the wife of Joe Alkire, of Carlisle; Flota, the wife of Sherman Myers of Allen Township; and Carrie, wife of James Utterson, of Carlisle.
Politically Mr Stumbo was first a Whig and later supported the Republican Party, voting for Fremont, Lincoln, and Grant. He then cast his ballot for Peter Cooper and has since been independent in politics. Coming to this region when it was a frontier district, he has been actively and prominently identified with its development and upbuilding, and he well deserves mention among the honored pioneers of Iowa.