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- Charles Lamartine Stafford was the son of Isaac and Charlotte (Bogan) Stafford. Charles married Susanna Elizabeth Hutchinson on October 19, 1898 in Thorntown, Boone Co., IN. Charles and Elizabeth had 6 children: Martha Stafford Clouse, Charlotte Stafford, Charles Robert Stafford, Dr. William C. Stafford, Elizabeth Stafford Gillespie and Joseph Howard Stafford.
Charles Lamartine (C. L.) Stafford (1866 – 1934) and Susanna Elizabeth Hutchinson Stafford (1868 – 1957) moved to Hope, Indiana with their six children in 1915. This story is written for his descendents and is based largely on Internet research about their ancestors four generations back.However, details about their life come largely from their documents, pictures and stories told by their children. At this point, the story should be considered a draft to be revised, corrected and enhanced by the Stafford cousins.
With legal counsel from his brother-in-law, Frank Hutchinson(1874 – 1968), C.L. Stafford and members of the Thorntown Jacques family had created Stafford Grain Company, a subchapter S Corporation to own the grain elevator in Jamestown, Indiana. Corporate papers were filed in 1908. The company sold the Jamestown elevator and purchased the one in Hope from Simeon Nading. Mr. Nading had owned and operated the elevator/mill since 1884, the year that Hope got railroad service. The original flour mill was started by Samuel and Sanford Rominger in 1856, 40 years after Indiana statehood and about 35 years after the first settlers bought farmland in Hawcreek Township.
While the Corporation bought the mill, C.L. bought the family home on Washington Street from Nading as a part of a package deal. Atthe time, it was only 25 years old and considered one of the more up-to-date homes in the community. It had steam heat supplied by the exhaust of the steam engines in the nearby sawmill. (Cogeneration about 100 years before the term was popular.) A windmill pumped water into a holding tank on the second floor above the kitchen. By that mechanism, the home boasted indoor plumbing. The home remained in the Stafford family until (year) and was demolished in 2015.
Charles was the oldest son of Isaac Stafford (1839 – 1895) and Charlotte Bogan (1837 – 1913), born in 1866, shortly after his father returned from the Civil War. Ancestor.com lists his home as Kirklin, a small town in southeastern Clinton County. We do not know exactly where he grew up but we doknow that his grandfather, Azamaveth Stafford, had purchased a 160 acre farm from the US government in 1834. That land straddles the current Clinton/ BooneCounty line and is accessible from Reagan’s run, a tributary of Sugarcreek.
CL’s other grandfather, David Bogan, his brother, James, andhis cousins, Andrew and William E. had purchased farms just west of the town ofKirklin. The 1870 US Census shows Isaac and his family on the same page with David Bogan. Both are listed as farmers and Isaac’s father, Azamaveth, is shown as living with Isaac’s family. This suggests that the 63-year-old Azamaveth had quit farming at that time and that son, Isaac, was then farming near his father-in-law David, probably on land originally acquired by one of the Bogan’s.
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1866 - 1934 (67 years)
