Josiah and Lydia (Hall) Stogsdill--Dade county, Missouri
S ubject: information on Josiah and Lydia Stogsdill, from Dade Co., MO, parents of William , b. 1840
Josiah and Lydia (Hall) Stogsdill
From a notebook “Diggin” in Dade”
In the Joplin, MO Library
Josiah STOGSDILL, son of William and Malinda (Couch) STOGSDILL, was born in Kentucky, (probably Pulaski County) on 13 January, 1817.We have traced the migration of the William and Malinda STOGSDILL family from Kentucky to Tennessee to the Paint Rock Valley of northwest Jackson County, Alabama.Circumstantial evidence suggests that Josiah STOGSDILL’S wife, Lydia, was a HALL.But we have no proof of her maiden name.The Paint Rock Primitive Baptist Church, on Larkins’ Fork of the Paint Rock River, was located about three miles north of the village of Swaim, in northwest Jackson County.The early minutes of that church record that Josiah STOGSDILL and Lydia HALL received into membership of that church at the same time in early 1836.The date of birth of their eldest child suggests that they were also married about 1836.
We strongly suspect that Josiah STOGSDILL and Lydia HALL were married in Jackson County, Alabama.Their first three children, born 1837, 1839, and 1840 were born in Alabama, and Josiah and Lydia were residents of Jackson County in 1840.Then, together with other relatives, Josiah and Lydia moved their family to Missouri about 1840-44.A daughter born in 1843 or 1844 was born in Missouri, as were their next six children.Josiah and Lydia and their first seven children were living in Dade County, Missouri when the 1850 Federal census was enumerated.Josiah’s household was located immediately adjacent to the household of his brother, Arch STOGSDILL, and his family.Also living nearby were Josiah’s sister, Elizabeth BENNETT and her family; Lydia’s sister, Cintha Brewer, and her family: Josiah’s uncle and aunt, Lindley and Susan COUCH, and Josiah’s brother, Daniel STOGSDILL and his family.
Josiah and Lydia were enumerated in Polk township of Dade County in 1860.The household consisted of Josiah, Lydia, nine of their children, two 9-year-old
LASLEY twin girls we believe to be orphaned nieces of Josiah STOGSDILL, and 68- year- old Sarah HALL, who we believe to be Lydia STOGSDILL’S mother.
Until the evidence to the contrary is presented, I will assume that the STOGSDILL family, with their Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama background, would have been supporters of the southern cause during the Civil War.
Josiah STOGSDILL served as a minister of the Sinking Creek United Baptist Church, located about one mile southeast of Everton, Missouri.The church was organized on 28 August 1847, by Elder Thomas J. KELLEY, and 22 other early settlers of the county as assistant members.The year after the church was organized, the society, in connection with other denomination, erected a hewed-log church edifice.Josiah STOGSDILL may have succeeded Elder KELLEY as the second pastor of the church.During the Civil War, the church became disorganized, and was reorganized in 1866, the year following the end of the war.Continued on page 2
Josiah STOGSDILL died in December of 1867, and is buried in the Sinking Creek Cemetery, near the church where he served as pastor.Lydia died in 1869, and is buried next to Josiah in the Sinking Creek Cemetery.
Submitted byMr. Mike Landwehr
725 39th Street
West Des Moines, Iowa50265
This full page article was found in the April 1992, Vol. 2, No. 3 issue of
“Diggin’ in Dade” a quarterly publication of the Dade Co. Genealogical Society
This article was copied and typed by Lynda Roten, in the Joplin Library, on April 18, 2006 for sharing with family history interests only.