Re: Benjamin Stilwell
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Posted By: Bill Hansen (email) In Response To: Benjamin Stilwell (Earline B. Stewart)
Date: 8/15/2004 at 16:26:17
Your best bet is to contact the Wapello County Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 163, Ottumwa, Iowa 52501. The have copied most of the early Wapello county records.
I did find the following in the census records:
From the 1870 Federal Census for town of Blakesburg, Adams Township, Wapello county, Iowa
Stilwell, Benjamin H., aged 33, born Ohio
Stilwell, Nancy E., aged 31, born Ohio
Stilwell, William H., aged 11, born Iowa
Stilwell, M.M., aged 9, born IowaIt is possible that William and Mary were born in Wapello county and they may have married there. However, I don't believe that Benjamin and Nancy died there. BTW the actual entry as near as I can tell for Mary is M.M.E.S.B.O. I have no clue as to what that means. In 1870, there were only two churches in Blakesburg, Methodist and Baptist. I checked the list of pastors for those two churches and Benjamin is not listed, so he may have been a pastor for a rural church close by. You may also want to contact someone at Monroe county in that in that Blakesburg is in both Wapello and Monroe.
A check of the 1880 census shows:
1880 Federal census for Woodland Township, Decatur county, Iowa show Benjamin and Nancy, but no children. Niether Mary or William show up in the Wapello county marriage records, but recording of marriages was not required until 1880. The only William that I can find that is close to your William lives in Ottawa county, Kansas in the 1900/1910 census, but the birth dates don't match exactly.
Sorry I could not have been more help.
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