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- Horace W. Stafford, THE STAFFORD FAMILIES OF OHIO AND INDIANA; 1066-1927; Springfield, OH, 1927; pp 39,100; Troy [OH] Historical Society Library [MSS/X/S7795].
***JAMES C. STAFFORD, son of George Stafford Sr. and Catherine Fair Stafford, was born 16 Oct 1801 in Giles County, Virginia. He married Margaret R. Black 6 Nov 1828. They were my grandparents [Horace W. Stafford].
James C. Stafford came to Ohio in 1811, with his father and mother and others, locating on the tract of land entered by his father. The date of their arrival in Pike Twp, Clark County, Ohio, was 16 Oct 1811, being his tenth birthday. They pitched their tent on the site near the present home on the land now owned by Albert Eaton Stafford and immediately began a search for a spring of water, which was found at the foot of a hill a short distance from their tent. The tract of land on which this spring was found afterwards became the residence farm of James C. Stafford and family.
In the early years and before he attained the age of 21 years, he became an apprentice of a man in Dayton, Ohio, by the name of Dodson with whom he learned the carpenter trade where he worked for a period of years -- 3 years -- for his board and clothes. He became the owner of the northwest quarter of Section 31, township 3, Range 9 of lands in Pike Twp, Clark County, for which Thomas Stafford had obtained a patent in 1818; also five acres of land devised to him by his father.
Immediately after his marriage to Margaret R. Black, they at once moved into a log house which he built a short time prior to his marriage. It was located only a few rods from the spring referred to and where the present house on the farm is now located.
At the time James C. Stafford came to Ohio there was growing within a few feet of the spring referred to, a small burr oak tree which was about ten feet in height. This tree is still standing, being four feet and eleven inches in diameter, and is now more than 115 years old.
The log house contained one room and a loft. At that date there was only one other building on the farm, being a loom-house, where Margaret in after years wove linen, blankets and carpets. The dimensions of this cabin are not definitely known but it was considerably larger and more substantial than most of the log houses of that day, due probably to the fact he was a carpenter and constructed it with but little outlay of money.
He was a fine carpenter and built nearly all the houses and barns of the early settlers of that community. Today there are buildings still standing in the neighborhood which he constructed. He had the finest and most expensive set of carpenter tools for making doors, windows, mantles, tables, moldings and everything necessary to finely finish a well-built, and then, modern house."
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1801 - 1864 (62 years)
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