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The Stalcup Saga
(as it pertains to Grayson County, Texas)   Levi Hurd Stalcup and Mary Ann Young Newbold Stalcup Levi
Hurd
Stalcup was number 10 in the sibling hierarchy
and one of three of them that arrived in
Grayson County, Texas in the late 1870s. He
was born July 25, 1841 at Mouse Creek,
Tennessee. Four months before his
21st birthday, Levi became a Private in
Co. F, 39th Tennessee Mounted Infantry when it
was organized in March 1862. Along with almost
29,000 men, Levi became a prisoner of war July
3, 1863 at the conclusion of the Siege of
Vicksburg. Due to the extreme numbers at
Vicksburg most of the P.O.W.'s were granted
parole. However, "parole" did not translate
into immediate "freedom". He was taken
to Ft. Nashville for six months; a trip to
Louisville, Kentucky, then across the
Ohio River into Indiana; released to fend for
themselves; they could not return home until
the war was over. However, good things can
come from bad things. Levi found employment at
a government bakery; secured a room at a
boarding house; and then, he met his
landlord's sister. Mary Ann (Young)
Newbold was a divorcee with a four year old
son - Christopher C. Newbold. A native of
Clark County, Indiana and number seven of nine
known children, Mary was born to Christopher
and Barbara (Mitchell) Young on July 22, 1839.
Levi and Mary married in Jeffersonville, Clark
County, Indiana November 24, 1864. Two sons,
John Fontaine and William Moses, were born to
them during the years they lived there.
Levi then moved his family to the Stalcup farm at Mouse Creek, Tennessee where two more children were born, Barbary A. and Thomas L. When Levi Stalcup left McMinn County, Tennessee in 1862 it had been with the men of Company F; fifteen years later his traveling companions included his wife and 5 children; younger brother Chris and family; and their widowed mother Nancy Stalcup. Destination? Grayson County, Texas. Not surprisingly, the Stalcup brothers chose to settle in Pottsboro in very close proximity to their sister Fannie Etter's family. Older brother John W. was only a few miles distant. Levi chose an 80 acre tract of land and within a few years had almost 30 acres under cultivation. Oldest son Chris found work as a hired hand on a neighboring farm. The winter of 1880 dealt the family a harsh blow when both younger children were struck down with typhoid fever: Barbary A. - born March 9, 1870; and Thomas L. - born June 12, 1874 - both succumbed to the illness the same day, December 31, 1880, and are buried in Georgetown Cemetery, Pottsboro, Texas. Their graves are marked with a shared headstone. The three older sons grew up to be productive young men. Christopher C. Newbold, born June 12, 1859 Indiana; went into the carpenter business; married later in life and fathered 4 sons and 3 daughters John Fontaine - born August 9, 1865 Indiana; married Molly Wyatt Perdue - May 12, 1887 , Grayson County, Texas; oldest 2 of their eventual 6 children (4 sons,2 daughters) were born in Grayson County.
William Moses - born April 25, 1867 Indiana; married Millicent Catherine Hull November 19, 1889, Grayson County, Texas; 3 daughters, 4 sons; first child was born in Pottsboro in 1890. Levi, Mary and all 3 sons moved to the farming community of Odell, Wilbarger County, Texas in 1891. Both Levi and Mary died in Vernon, Wilbarger County, Texas, circa 1926. C. A. Parsons January 16, 2021 Stalcup Index  Biography Index Susan Hawkins ©2025 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
