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Adam
Jefferson Statler (Peter, Peggy) was born on March 29, 1819 in
Missouri Territory according to his death certificate, but the 1900 census
recorded that he was born in March 1817 UN14.
The Declaration for an Original Invalid
Pension for Adam J. Statler indicated that he was dark complected, with
brown hair and blue eyes, and was five feet and nine inches tall, and was
sixty-three years of age on June 15, 1883 FE1.
Adam married Harriet (Harrit) Jaco on September 2,
1849 in Apple Creek Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri in a ceremony
officiated by Christopher Hahs, Justice of the Peace MI17.
Adam J. Statler
was issued a land patent on January 3, 1856 for 160 acres, which was the
southwest quarter of Section 12 in Township 33 North in Bollinger County,
Missouri GE4. It is unclear if he was the Adam
Statler who was issued a land patent on January 15, 1858 for 2.88 acres in
Section 22 of Township 33 North in Bollinger County GE4.
Adam J. Statler
enrolled as a private of Company C in the 50th
Regiment of the Missouri Volunteers on October 20, 1864 at Cape Girardeau, for
a term of six months FE1. His
commanding officer was Captain Charles Brill FE1. He was on a detached service to repair a
bridge, beginning on February 27, 1865, but according to a document in his
pension record which was dated June 15, 1883, he
claimed that he became partially disabled because he “contracted Inflamatory sore eyes caused by exposure and cold” while in
the line of duty FE1. Another pension document which was dated
September 28, 1883 stated “He was mustered out on Detachment – Muster Out Roll
May 9, 1865 – to take effect April 23 1865 at St Louis Mo.” FE1. In different penmanship on the same
document, a notation stated “No evidence of alleged disability – Regimental
hospital records not on file” FE1. A
letter written by Henry J. Murray, Justice of the Peace for Bollinger County,
Missouri on August 9, 1887 stated FE1:
Adam J Statler who being duly sworn
declares in relation to the aforesaid [pension] claim…
that he incurred disease of eyes about December 9th 1864 instead of April 1865 as stated in
his application. The mistake in the application was made by the person writing
the affidavit and through a misunderstanding and that there is
no entries in Dr H.J. Smiths books showing that he treated his eyes. He further
declares his post office is Sedgewickville county of
Bollinger State of Missouri.
After Harriet’s
death, he never remarried. His address in June 1883 was in German Township,
Bollinger County, Missouri FE1. In June 1890, Adam J. “Stattler” resided in German Township, Bollinger County,
Missouri, and stated that he was a Union veteran of the Civil War; according to
this record, Private Adam J. Stattler enlisted in
Company C of the 50th
Missouri Infantry on March 15, 1864 and was discharged on September 15, 1865 CA91. These dates are different than those
recorded on his Federal Military Pension Application. The 1900 census indicated that he was a
farmer who could not read or write, and in that year and at the time of the
1910 census, he was living with the family of his son, James M. Statler. His
last pension payment of $30 was issued on February 4, 1913 FE1. According to his death certificate, he
died from old age at age ninety-three (almost ninety-four), on February 26,
1913 in White Water (now Whitewater) Township, Bollinger County, Missouri. He
was buried at the Statler Graveyard. The informant on the death certificate was
an individual from the Brotherton family, A.P. Brotherton.
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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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1870
US Census: lived in Union Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.
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1880
US Census: lived in White Water Township, Bollinger
County, Missouri.
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1900
US Census: lived in White Water Township, Bollinger
County, Missouri.
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1910
US Census: lived in White Water Township, Bollinger
County, Missouri.
Harriet Jaco was born circa 1828 or 1830 in Tennessee UN10, UN11, or about 1830 in
Missouri UN12. There were eight Jaco households in
Tennessee at the time of the 1830 census, and all of them were situated in
Warren County; the household heads were Jeremiah, John, Philip, Thomas, James,
John W., and two men named Cornelius, who were both in their twenties UN8. Of these men, John, Philip, Thomas,
James, and one of the men named Cornelius had a girl under the age of five
living in their house who could have been Harriet. Narrowed down further, only Thomas and James Jaco resided in
Missouri during the 1850 census, and specifically, these men lived in Cape
Girardeau County, which is where Adam and Harriet married in 1849 MI17. Other men with the Jaco surname did live
in Missouri in 1850, but they were not in Tennessee in 1830, and their birth
years precluded them from being a father in 1828 or 1830.
Thomas Jaco was born about 1800 in Georgia UN10. He may have been Thomas Jaco of Lincoln
County who acquired land in the Land Lottery of Georgia, when on the
fifty-seventh day of the lottery, on May 11, 1827, his name was drawn to
receive land in Section 1, District 17, Lot Number 160 in Lee County, Georgia.
His name was recorded on the White County, Tennessee tax list for 1833 TE4. At the time of the 1850 census, his family included Sarah,
who was born about 1798 in Georgia, James J., born about 1836 in Kentucky,
David Crocket, born about 1837 in Tennessee, and Belzora, born about 1845 in Tennessee UN10.
Thomas’ son, James, may have been the James
Jaco (born about 1837 in Tennessee) who was enumerated with Eliza in Warren
County, Tennessee in 1860 UN11. He also was probably
the James Jaco who enlisted as a private at age twenty-five or thirty (the
Company Muster Rolls recorded different ages) on September 6, 1861 at Camp “Smart”
(Camp Smartt) in Warren County, Tennessee by Colonel B.J. Hill or by Captain
John W. Towles CO28. He joined Second Company A, 35th Tennessee Infantry (Fifth Regiment Provisional Army, Mountain Rifle Regiment) as
a private, and was then promoted to 1st Corporal, and 4th Sergeant,
and appeared on the Company Muster Rolls from September 6 to October 5, 1861,
February 28 to June 30, 1862, July and August, 1862, January to April, 1863 and
from July until December, 1863 CO28. He received a wound
at the battle of Perryville, Kentucky on October 8, 1862 CO28. He was promoted from 1st Corporal to 4th Sergeant on March 1, 1863 and was said to
have deserted on November 25, 1863 from near Ooltawah,
Tennessee, but then later appeared on a Roll of
Prisoners of War when he was captured as a
prisoner of war at Grasshopper Creek, Tennessee on November 20, 1863 CO28. He was
taken to a military prison at Louisville, Kentucky on December 10, and then
sent to Rock Island Barracks, Illinois on December 11, 1863 CO28. He died
from “variola”, which is smallpox, on June 2, 1864 while a prisoner of war at
Rock Island CO28. His grave is #1187 at Rock Island Confederate Cemetery in
Rock Island, Illinois CO28.
A death certificate
for David R. Jaco, filed in New Madrid County, Missouri on February 22, 1922,
stated that he was roughly eighty-three years old at the time of his death, and
was born in Crawford County, Tennessee to Thomas Jaco and an unknown mother;
this David R. Jaco may have been the same individual as David Crocket Jaco.
The birth locations
of Thomas Jaco’s children, along with the Tennessee tax list, indicate that his
family was in Tennessee, then briefly in Kentucky, and then again in Tennessee.
Thomas
Jaco bought 160 acres of land in Bollinger County, Missouri on January 3, 1856,
and he purchased another 80 acres in Bollinger County on June 16, 1856 GE4. The description of these two parcels of
land were as follows GE4:
The Lot numbered One; the North
East quarter; the North West quarter; the South East quarter; and the
East half of the Lot numbered One; the North West quarter, of fractional
Section Five, in Township Thirty Three North, of Range Ten East, in the
District of Lands subject to sale at Jackson Missouri, containing One hundred
and Sixty Acres
the South West quarter of the South East quarter of Section
Five, and the West half of the Lot numbered One of the North West quarter of
Section Four in Township Thirty-three North of Range Ten East, in the District
of Lands subject to Sale at Jackson Missouri, Containing Eighty acres.
Thomas
resided with the family of David and Sarah Barks in Union Township, Bollinger
County at the time of the 1860 census, which was near the family of Adam and Hariet Statler UN11. According to that
census, he was born about 1808 UN11. It is unclear if he was related to
David or Sarah Barks; he and nineteen-year-old David Jaco (who was born in
Tennessee) worked on David Barks’ farm at that time UN11. Within close vicinity resided the
families of Cornelious and Beliora
Greene, John and Frances Jaco, and James and Mary Jaco UN11. “Beliora” Greene
was most likely Thomas Jaco’s daughter, Belzora Jaco.
Balzora Jaco married Cornelius Green in the Township
of St. Francois, St. Francois County, Missouri on November 7, 1858 MI17. In 1860, Cornelious
Greene, his fourteen-year-old wife, “Beliora”, and
their six-month-old son, Thomas W. Greene, lived in Union Township, Bollinger
County, Missouri UN11. Cornelius and “Belsora”
Green were enumerated in Clinton Township, Douglas County, Kansas with their
two sons, William, age five, and George, age three, in 1865 KA5. Belzora/Belsora/Beliora was born about
1842 KA5, 1845 UN10, or 1846 UN11 in Tennessee KA5, UN10, UN11. John Jaco was born about 1835 in
Tennessee, and Frances E. Jaco was born about 1840 in Illinois UN11. They were enumerated in 1860 in Union
Township, Bollinger County, Missouri with Sarah, who was one month old UN11. James Jaco was born about 1820 in Georgia,
and Mary was born about 1815 in North Carolina UN11. They were enumerated in 1860 in Union
Township, Bollinger County, Missouri with William, age six, James W., age four,
and Sarah B., age one UN11.
The
1850 US Census for Cape
Girardeau County, Missouri stated that James
Jaco was also born about 1800 in Georgia UN10, but the 1860 census
from Courtois, Crawford County, Missouri indicated that his birth year was
about 1807 in Georgia UN11. Using both the 1850 and 1860 census
records, the family of James Jaco included Lucinda, who was born about 1810 in
Tennessee but must have died by the time of the 1860 census, as she was absent, and fourteen children who were
born in Tennessee, Alabama, and Missouri. The children born in Tennessee were
Sarah, born about 1828, Millia, born about 1831,
Joseph, born about 1835, and Samuel, who was born about 1837. Born in Alabama
were Mary Ann, born about 1839, William C., born about 1840 or 1842, and James
A., born about 1842 or 1845. Those born in Missouri were Thomas C., born about
1844 or 1848, Ebzina or Ebziny,
born about 1847 or 1849, John W., born about 1848, David, born about 1853,
Harriet, born about 1855, Daniel, born about 1858, and Luaney
or Suaney, born about 1859.
Assuming
that all of the
children listed in the household of James Jaco were his sons and daughters, it
may be safe to deduce that James Jaco was not the father of the Harriet Jaco
who married Adam Statler, because James eventually did have a daughter, whom he
named Harriet (born about 1855). The most reasonable candidate for the father
of Harriet is Thomas Jaco. Death records, probate records, or wills for Harriet
Statler, Thomas Jaco, and James Jaco, which may have provided helpful
information, have not been located.
Harriet was
probably the mother of all six children who were enumerated with Adam and
Harriet Statler in the 1860 and 1870 census records, and with Adam in the 1880
census record: Peter Monroe, Mary Margaret, John D., Minerva, Amy Elizabeth, and
James Marion.
Peter
Statler was born about 1853 in Missouri UN11, UN12. Peter Monroe Statler was born in
Bollinger County on June 7,
1851 to
Adam Statler (who was born in North Carolina) and “[blank space] Jaco” (who was
born in Bollinger County, Missouri), according to his Bollinger County,
Missouri death certificate, which was filed in March 1937. Peter M. Statler married Elizabeth Barks
on December 11, 1873 in Bollinger County, Missouri BO24. Peter and Elizabeth Statler lived in White Water Township, Bollinger County, Missouri in
1880 and 1900 UN13,
UN14. His death
certificate stated that he was a widower who had been married to Elizabeth
Statler, and his death occurred on March 26, 1937.
Mary Margaret
Statler was
born in June 1852 UN14, about 1855 in
Missouri UN11, UN12, or on June 7, 1854 or 1855 in Bollinger County, Missouri according to
her Bollinger County death certificate and gravestone.
John D. Statler was born about 1858 UN11, 1859 UN13,
1860 UN15, or March 1862 UN14 in Missouri UN11, UN13, UN14, UN15 to a father who was born in North
Carolina UN16 or Tennessee UN15 and a mother who was born in Tennessee UN15, UN16. He was not enumerated with Adam and
Harriet in 1870. John D. Statler married Sarah E. Vernun
on April 1, 1877 in Bollinger County BO24. John and Sarah Statler lived in the household of his father,
Adam Statler, in White Water Township (later called Whitewater Township),
Bollinger County, in 1880 UN13.
John and Sarah lived near Moses and Margaret M. Brotherton in German Township,
Bollinger County in 1900 UN14.
The 1900 US Census indicated that he and Sarah had been married for twenty-one
years UN14, but in 1880, they had a two-year-old
daughter, Marcella UN13.
John D. and Sarah E. Statler continued to live next to Moses and Mary M.
Brotherton in German Township in 1910 UN15 and then in Scopus Township (German Township was renamed to
Scopus Township about the year 1918) in 1920 UN16. A gravestone shared by John D. and
Sarah E. Statler, located at Post Oak Cemetery in Patton, Bollinger County,
Missouri, recorded that he died on July 5, 1941 (a photo of this gravestone can
be found on the Find a Grave
website).
Minerva Statler was born about 1858 UN12, in January 1860 UN14, or about 1861 UN16 in Missouri UN12, UN14, UN16. Minerva, who was
twelve in 1870, should have appeared on the 1860 census with the Statler
household as a two-year-old child, but she was not listed. This may have been
because she was not born in 1858, but on May 16, 1861, according to her death
certificate. Manerva
Statler married Henry Propst on July 13, 1880 in Bollinger County BO24. Three weeks before her wedding, Minerva
A. Statler was enumerated as a boarder and a housekeeper in the household of
Peter and Belinda Propst UN13. Manerva A. and Henry Propst lived
in White Water Township, Bollinger County in 1900 with seven of their
eight children, as well as Rachel Statler, who was called an aunt UN14. Manervy
and Henry Propst lived in Randolph Township, St. Francois County, Missouri in
1920 UN16. The St. Francois County, Missouri death
certificate for Minerva R. Propst, which was filed in 1925, stated that she was
born on May 16, 1861 to Adam J. Statler and “Harritt
Jacko”, and she died while
married to Henry Propst on March 21, 1925.
Amy Elizabeth Statler was born about 1862 UN12 or 1864 UN13 in Missouri UN12, UN13. Amy lived with her uncle and aunt,
Conrad and Margaret Statler, and her grandfather, Peter Statler, in White Water
Township, Bollinger County in 1880 UN13. A marriage record for Anna E. Statler stated that she married “Benj F. Wilfong” in the home of Moses Brotherton in Bollinger
County on September 9, 1883 BO23, BO36. The Wayne County,
Missouri death certificate for Amy Elizabeth Wilfong, the widow of Benjamin
Franklin Wilfong, was filed in October 1937 and stated that she was born on June 2, 1863 in Bollinger County,
but her father’s name was incorrectly written as “Adam J. Jefferson”, rather
than Adam Jefferson Statler. The individual who provided the information for
Amy Elizabeth Wilfong’s death certificate was unaware of the name of Amy’s mother.
She died on October 14,
1937 in Wayne County, Missouri.
James Marion Statler was born about 1865 UN12 or 1867 UN13, UN15 in Missouri UN12, UN15. Marion was a
five-year-old boy in 1870 UN12 but was not listed on the 1880 census;
instead, James M. appeared as a thirteen-year-old boy UN13. James Marion
Statler was born on April
16, 1866 in
Bollinger County to Adam Jefferson Statler and “Harret”
Jaco, according to his March 1912 Bollinger County, Missouri death certificate.
James M. Statler of
Bollinger County married Elvina J. Conrad on September 13, 1888 at Dolle’s Mill, Perry County, Missouri PE28. In 1900 and 1910, James M. and Elbida J. or Elecida J. Statler
lived with his father, Adam J. Statler, in Whitewater, Bollinger County UN15, UN16. He died on March 11, 1912 in Bollinger
County, according to his death certificate.
Harriet’s
middle name may have been “Parlee”, or a similar
name. Her daughter, Amy Elizabeth Statler, married Benjamin F. Wilfong, and
among their several children were a set of twins,
named Adam J. and Harriet P. Wilfong, who were born in 1891, according to the
1900 census, when in that year the Wilfong family resided in Whitewater
Township, Bollinger County, Missouri UN14. By 1910, “Harriet
P.” was married to John Jaco, and they lived in Union Township, Bollinger
County UN15. The 1920 census showed that John Jaco of
Scopus Township, Bollinger County was married to “Parlee
H.”, and his children were Robert, Hinkle, and Dale UN16, but in 1930, when
John Jaco lived in Whitewater Township, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, his
wife was named Hariette, and his children were again
listed as Robert, Hinkle, and Dale UN17. Whether “Parlee” was precisely how her middle name was spelled is
uncertain, because Harriett (Wilfong) Jaco’s death certificate, filed in Cape
Girardeau County, Missouri in 1961, did not list her middle name. It did
confirm that her father was Benjamin Wilfong, her mother was “Ame” Statler, and her husband was John Jaco. The death
certificate for Harriett (Wilfong) Jaco’s twin brother, filed in Wayne County,
Missouri in 1918, stated that his full name was Adam Jay Jefferson Wilfong.
Because Amy (Statler) Wilfong named her twins Adam Jay Jefferson and Harriet Parlee, she clearly named them for her parents, and so
Harriet (Jaco) Statler’s middle name was probably “Parlee”.
Harriet died sometime after July 15, 1870, which was the day the census
occurred.
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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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1870
US Census: lived in Union Township, Bollinger County, Missouri.