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Peter Statler was
born circa 1795 in North Carolina UN11, UN13
or about 1796 UN10,
to parents who were born in North Carolina UN13. The initial settlement in what is now
Bollinger County, Missouri was begun by twenty families, including men named Peter
and Conrad Statler, who accompanied George Frederick Bollinger from North
Carolina DO11.
This group of families crossed the Mississippi River on January 1, 1800 at St.
Genevieve, Missouri DO11.
One of these men, Peter or Conrad Statler, was most
certainly the father of Peter Statler, who is the subject of this biography.
All of these families were members of the German Reformed Church,
and were Protestants DO11.
Peter may have served as a private in
Captain Hugh Tinnin’s Company of the Missouri Militia
in the War of 1812 WA10, US13, GE4. Peter’s surname was recorded as
“Statler”, “Stantler” WA10, and “Stotler” US13, and he would have been approximately
seventeen years old at the time, if this pension application record referred to
the Peter Statler who is the subject of this biography. An index of those who
served in Captain Hugh Tinnin’s (also spelled Haugh Tinnen or Tinnon) Company of
Mounted Missouri Militia named eighty-two men, including the captain, but five
of those names seem to have been spelling variations, potentially bringing the
total number of men who served under Captain Tinnin
down to seventy-six men US13.
He married Peggy
Masters on March 24, 1816 in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri MI16, and on July 15, 1825 as Peter “Stotler”,
he purchased eighty acres, which was the west half of the northeast quarter of
Section 7 in Township 33 North in Bollinger County, Missouri GE4. The 1830 census recorded two men named Peter Statler who lived
near each other in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri; one was of thirty years,
but younger than forty, and the other was of twenty, but younger than thirty UN8. Additional men in Bollinger County who may have been related to
Peter Statler were Joseph Stotler, who purchased land
on July 1, 1841, and David and “Conrod” Stotler, who
each purchased land on August 10, 1841 GE4.
On April 2, 1844,
Peter Statler, an elder of Whitewater Church, was present at a meeting at the
Presbyterian Church in Farmington, which was attended by several
elders who represented other churches DO11.
The purpose of the meeting was to organize the churches in southeast Missouri
into the Presbytery of Potosi DO11. In
this case, this particular Peter Statler was probably
the Peter Statler who was born in 1795 in North Carolina, because the “second”
Peter Statler was consistently associated with Apple Creek Township in Cape
Girardeau County, but the Peter Statler of this biography did eventually live
in Whitewater Township in Bollinger County.
After the 1850
census was conducted, Bollinger County was formed from the western half of Cape
Girardeau County, a chunk of the eastern portion of Wayne County, and small
bits of the northern edge of Stoddard County TH33. Before that, it did not exist TH33. On August 1, 1853, according to the land
patent,
“Peter Stotler (son of Peter Stotler,
Sr.) of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri” purchased forty acres in Section 32 of
Township 33 North, Range 11 East, in Cape Girardeau County GE4. Because Peter’s
father is unknown, the purchaser in this land transaction may have been either
the subject of this biography
or the “second” Peter Statler. “Peter Statler, Senior, of Bollinger County,
Missouri” purchased two parcels of 120 acres of land in Section 11, Township 33
North, Range 10 East, in Bollinger County on January 3, 1856 (these two parcels were the southeast
quarter of the northeast quarter, and the east half of the southeast quarter) GE4.
These parcels in both Cape Girardeau County and Bollinger County are situated very near to each other. The land in Cape Girardeau County
hugs the western boundary of the county, and the land in Bollinger County is
near its eastern border GE4. Bounty
land of 120 acres, which
was the west half of the southwest quarter of Section 12 of Township 31 North, Range 10 East, was granted
on October 10, 1859 to “Peter Statler private, Captain Tinnin’s
Company Missouri Militia War 1812”, but was assigned by Peter Statler to
Hezekiah Estes GE4.
On June 5, 1860,
Peter Statler lived in Union Township, Bollinger County near the families of
his sons, Adam and Conrad, and his age was recorded as sixty-five UN11. On August 28, 1860, the “second” Peter
Statler, age sixty-eight, was living about thirty miles away in Apple Creek
Township, Cape Girardeau County, with the Crits (Crites) family. Both ages are
similar, but the second Peter logically should have been younger than
sixty-eight, for if he was the same Peter Statler who was recorded in Cape
Girardeau County in 1830, he should have been between the ages of fifty and
sixty in 1860. There is a possibility that a third man named Peter Statler
lived in the area, but was not enumerated in the 1830
census in Cape Girardeau County, but it is also possible that the 1830 census
enumerator placed the tally mark for Peter of Apple Creek Township in the wrong
age column.
In 1870 at age
seventy-eight, a man named Peter Statler resided with the Barks family in Apple
Creek Township, and worked as a farmhand. This was the
same man who lived with the Crits (Crites) family in 1860. The 1860 and 1870 census
records for Apple Creek Township should be disregarded in this case, as they do
not pertain to the Peter Statler of this biography. No record of Peter Statler,
or broad variants of his name, has been located in the
1870 census; a page-by-page search through the Union Township, Bollinger County
census records was unsuccessful. In 1880, Peter resided with his son and
daughter-in-law, Conrad and Margaret Statler UN13. He died sometime after the June 23, 1880
census.
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1830
US Census: lived in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri with two girls under the
age of five, one boy and three girls of five years but under ten, one boy and
one girl of ten but under fifteen, one young man of fifteen but under twenty,
and one woman of thirty but under forty years of age.
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1850
US Census: lived in District 14, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.
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1860
US Census: lived in Union Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
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1880
US Census: lived in White Water Township, Bollinger
County, Missouri.
Peggy
Masters was born in North
Carolina about
1796 according to the 1850 census, which recorded her name as “Margaret”. The
1800 census categorized household members by gender and age brackets, and Peggy
would have fallen under the categories “Free White Females” and “under ten
years of age” UN5. There were six families with the surname of “Masters”
which included a girl under the age of ten in North Carolina in 1800. Three of
these families resided in Salisbury, Surry County, North Carolina: James
Masters, who seemed to have four daughters under ten but no other children, Hilery Masters, whose household of ten included one girl
under the age of ten, and M. Masters, whose household of eight included two girls
under ten. Two families lived in Craven County, North Carolina: Enoch Masters’
household of eight included two slaves and one free white girl under ten, and
Susanna Masters’ household of fifteen included nine slaves and two free white girls
under ten. Lastly, John Masters’ household of four, including one free white girl
under ten, lived in Morgan, Wilkes County, North Carolina. There is a
possibility that Peggy was the daughter or relative of one of these
individuals.
The
1820 census records for Missouri Territory have been lost, but the 1830 Census
indicated that eight Masters families resided in Cape Girardeau County,
Missouri at that time, and included the families of Michael and John Masters,
who were both born between 1781 and 1790, David, George, David, and Daniel, who
each were born between 1791 and 1800, and Andrew and Moses Masters, who were
both born between 1801 and 1810 UN8. Margaret (Peggy)
would have been the sister, or at the very least, the cousin, of one or more of
these men.
The 1860 census listed a woman named
Mary A. Statler who was born circa 1798 in North Carolina and who resided with
Peter Statler, but both the death certificate of her son, Adam Jefferson Statler, and the marriage
record for Peter and Peggy, indicated that the mother of Adam and the wife of
Peter was Peggy Masters. Adam Statler’s death certificate also stated that she
was born in North Carolina. The Whitewater Township, Bollinger County death
certificate for her son, Conrad Statler, who died on September 17, 1910, stated
that her maiden name was Masters and her birth
location was Missouri; it did not provide her given name.
The children of
Margaret Statler, who was likely the same person as Peggy based on the common
nickname of Peggy in place of Margaret, were Adam Jefferson Statler, Conrad,
Rachel, Jacob, Peter, and possibly Roena. Adam
Jefferson Statler was born on March
29, 1819 in Missouri Territory according to his Bollinger County, Missouri
death certificate.
Conrad Statler was born in January 1827 UN14 or about 1827 UN13, UN15 or 1828 UN10, UN12 in Missouri UN10, UN11, UN12, UN13, UN14, UN15. Conrad, Margaret, and their three children,
John F. (age eight), Enli H. (age four), and Frances
M. (age one), lived next to Peter and Mary A. Statler in Union Township,
Bollinger County in 1860 UN11. In
June 1890, Conrad resided in Bollinger County, Missouri, and stated that he was
a Union veteran of the Civil War who enlisted in Company C of the 50th Missouri Infantry on September 22, 1864
and was discharged on April 11, 1865 CA91. Conrad and Margaret lived in Union Township, Bollinger County
with their children, Franklin (age eighteen), Emily (age fourteen), and Louisa
(age ten), in 1870 UN12.
He lived with his wife, Margaret, and daughter, Louisa, as well as his niece,
Amy Statler, and father, Peter, in White Water Township, Bollinger County in
1880 UN13. The 1900 US Census recorded that his
wife was Mary M. Statler, born in 1831, who was the mother of seven children,
but only two were alive at that time UN14. They lived in White Water Township
with their grandson, Ruben Statler, and granddaughter, Rosa M. Fellows UN14. The 1900 US Census stated that they
had been married for fifty years UN14, but the 1910 US Census stated they were married for fifty-five
years UN15. Conrad and Mary M. Statler lived with
their daughter and son-in-law, Louisa P. and Emmanuel
M. Fellows, in White Water Township in 1910 UN15. The Bollinger County, Missouri death certificate for Conrad
Statler stated that he was born on January 10, 1827 in Missouri to Peter
Statler (who was born in North Carolina) and a mother whose surname was Masters
(who was born in Missouri). The death certificate stated that he died at age
eighty-three on September 17, 1910 from senility with heart failure in White
Water Township, Bollinger County and that he was buried at Sargent’s Chapel. A
gravestone for Conrad is located there, as well as a separate gravestone which
states “Mary M., wife of Conrad Statler died Oct 17 1912” (photos of these can
be viewed on the Find a Grave
website). His wife was probably the Mary Margaret Statler whose Bollinger
County, Missouri death certificate stated that she was the daughter of Peter
Masters and Sarah Elizabeth Barks, who died at age seventy-four as a widow on
October 18, 1912 and was buried at Sargent’s Chapel.
Rachel Statler was born about 1826 UN10
or 1830 UN11 in Missouri UN10, UN11. She lived with Peter and Margaret “Stotler”
in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri in 1850 UN10 and was enumerated in their household again in Union Township,
Bollinger County in 1860 UN11.
Rachel Statler, age fifty, was a boarder in the household of Malinda Rhab in White Water Township, Bollinger County in 1880 UN13. She lived next door to Minerva A.
Statler, age eighteen (born about 1862), who was a boarder in the household of
Peter and Belinda Propst UN13.
In 1900, Rachel Statler was called an aunt; she lived with Henry and Manerva A. Propst in Whitewater, Bollinger County and she
stated that she was born in 1830 UN14.
Jacob Statler was born about 1834 UN10 or 1835 UN11 in Missouri UN10, UN11. He may
have been the Jacob Statler who fought in Company C of the 50th Regiment of the
Missouri Infantry for the Union side as a private CI3. This is logical, as
two of his brothers joined this regiment. However, a headstone application stated that Jacob
Statler was a private in Company G of the 8th
Regiment of the “Mo Prov E M”, who died on May 12, 1865 and was buried in the
Lutheran – Sargant Chapel in Bollinger County HE11. This regiment was probably the 8th Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia. A gravestone (the photo can be found on the Find a Grave website) for Jacob Statler,
located at Sargent’s Chapel Lutheran Cemetery in Sedgewickville, Bollinger
County, Missouri states that he was in Company C or G (the letter is partially
broken) of the 8th Missouri Provisional (“Co C. 8th MO PROV”). It is unclear he was the Jacob Statler
who died in the Civil War or the Jacob Statler who married Mary Frances. An
obituary for Mary Frances Statler, the wife of Jacob Statler, stated that she
died on January 21, 1908 near Sedgewickville,
Bollinger County, Missouri, and she was survived by her husband WI30.
Peter Statler was born about 1836 UN10 or 1837 UN11 in Missouri UN10, UN11. In June 1890, Peter Statler, a
resident of Bollinger County, Missouri, stated that he was a Union veteran of
the Civil War who enlisted in Company C of the 30th Missouri Infantry on September 30, 1864
and was discharged on April 23, 1865 CA91. This may have been a typographical error, because the National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and
Sailors database recorded that he was a private in Company C of the 50th Missouri Infantry CI3. He may have been the Peter Statler who
applied for a pension as an invalid on May 5, 1882 (application number 448.577,
certificate number 342.114) CI2.
It is unclear if he was the Peter N. Statler who appeared on the 1880 US Census
in White Water Township, Bollinger County, Missouri UN13. This Peter’s age was fifty (born about
1830 in Missouri to parents who were born in North Carolina)
and he was married to “Margart L.”, who was born
about 1836 in Missouri UN13.
Family members included sons Thomas (eleven) and Napoleon W. (eight), a
daughter name Eniphamy J. (age ten), a
sixteen-year-old stepson named Frederick Knissy, and
a sister, Rachel Statler, who was fifty-three (born about 1827 UN13. It is also uncertain if he was the
Peter Statler who lived in Crooked Creek, Bollinger County, Missouri in 1900 UN14. This Peter stated he was born in
September 1830 UN14. His wife, Margret, was born in May
1840, and his son, Marsh, was born in March 1882 UN14. Marsh was married to Martha, who was
born in July 1885 UN14.
In another census record which may or may not be correct, Peter N. Statler
(born about 1836) and Lucinda M. Statler (born about 1840) were called the
parents of William W. Statler, who was born about 1882 UN15. William’s wife was Martha A., who was
born about 1885, and this family resided on Hiram Road in Cowan, Wayne County,
Missouri UN15. A Wayne County, Missouri death
certificate for Peter N. Statler, a widower who died in Mill Spring Township of
senility on January 24, 1918, stated that he was born on April 4, 1835; the
informant was W. N. Statler, who did not know the names of this Peter’s
parents.
Roena Statler was born about 1842 UN10 in Missouri UN10, UN11. Because Peggy would have been about
forty-six at the time of her birth, it is uncertain if Roena
was her daughter. The individual named Mary A. Statler who was listed in the 1860 US
Census may have been a second wife of Peter Statler, and if this is correct,
the girl born about 1845 named Minerva C. who was enumerated in 1860 with Peter
and Mary Statler, but who was not enumerated with the Statler household in
1850, might perhaps have been her daughter from a previous marriage UN11.
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1850
US Census: lived in District 14, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri.