Stacy Burden was born Abt. 1820 in Ohio, and died February 25, 1898 in Marshall County, Indiana. He married (1) Sophia Shoemaker. He married (2) Elizabeth Hutchson on Abt. 1844.
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BURDEN, Stacy Sr. Family
Stacy BURDEN, Sr. born in 1825 in Ohio was a descendant of Simon DE BURDEN, of the reign of Henry II of England, who gave the land for the parish church of Bordon in the seventh year of the reign of King John 1206 A.D. and for whom the parish was named.
Stacy BURDEN came to Marshall County near Inwood in 1847 and purchased a farm on the Bourbon road. The town was first called Pearsonville. But when the railroad was built the trainmen on the Ft. Wayne and Chicago Railroad looked for a shorter name.
The country was a dense wooded area. Men bought the land for the timber and then used that to pay for their land. A saw mill was built there. Now the land is some of the best farming land in the country.
Stacy BURDEN, Sr. owned about 200 acres. He and his first wife came from Ohio and settled on the farm. They were parents of Elias BURDEN and Agatha NORTON, both well known in the Inwood area where they both lived their entire lives. After the death of his first wife, he met Sophia SHOEMAKER at a husking bee and married her. She was born in Ohio in 1828 and was of Pennsylvania Dutch descent. They had a family of eight children. John and Charles moved to Logansport. Amos married Ida WARNS who lived near the home place as well as did the rest of the family. Jesse married Sarah BANKS. Rebeccah married Byron CARPENTER and Stacy Jr. married Anna Jane ROLFE of Argos. Two of the children died in infancy.
On July 18, 1856, the news spread that the first train would be arriving from LaPorte on the newly constructed road. It was called LaPorte and Plymouth Railway. (Now the LE & W) there were two or three passenger coaches for the women to ride in and the men rode in box cars and on the flat cars. It came as close as the water tank which was about one-half mile from the court house.
The streets were crowded with people from surrounding country. Several quarrels occurred and finally a general riot. The men had boasted they had come to clean up Plymouth. There were probably more bruised faces and black eyes Plymouth than any time since. The sawmill men and men south of the river and farm neighbors of Stacy BURDEN, Sr. joined in with the city folks and greatly out numbered the invaders of the train. The trainmen soon willingly took the crowd out of town. Several people were hurt and one man died from his injuries.
The people of Plymouth celebrated a grand formal ball. The programs showed a train going 40 miles an hour when the speed of the train was only ten or fifteen miles an hour at the most. A joke for the trainmen in 1856.
Stacy BURDEN, Sr. had one of the largest sugar camps in the country. About the year 1891, he became quite ill and passed away February 25, 1898 and is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery at Argos.
Stacy BURDEN, Jr. did the farming on the home place and took care of his mother until 1906.
Chloedell his daughter graduated from Inwood High School in 1906 where Howard and Maude were students. His youngest daughter Margaret attended school at the Old Brick School House in West Township where they had purchased a farm. Stacy BURDEN, Jr. passed away November 1939 and his wife Anna Jane passed away in August of 1943. They are both buried in Maple Grove Cemetery at Argos.
Stacy Burden, Sr. was born in 1825 in OHIO AND CAME TO Marshall County near Inwood in 1847 and purchased a farm on the Bourbon Road. His first wife came with him from Ohio and were parents of Elias Burden and Agatha Norton. After the death of his first wife he met and married Sophia Shoemaker who was born in Ohio in 1828. They had a family of eight children.
More About Stacy Burden: Burial: Maple Grove Cemetery at Argos.
More About Stacy Burden and Elizabeth Hutchson: Marriage: Abt. 1844
Children of Stacy Burden and Sophia Shoemaker are:
Stacy Burden (b. Abt. 1820, d. February 25, 1898)
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