BIO:  STILLWELL, Jarrett W., s/o Henry & Mary Stillwell

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885

Pike County, Lockhart Township, p. 437

JARRETT W. STILLWELL, son of Henry and Mary Stillwell, was born in Dubois
County, Ind., June 28, 1856.  March 23, 1861 (sic) he married Eliza Hunsacher,
of Pike County, who bore him five children--three sons and two daughters:
John W. (teacher), Mary E., Christina, James and one deceased. Mr. Stillwell
is a Democrat, and a member of the I.O.O.F.  February 14, 1865 he enlisted in
Company I, One Hundred and Forty-third Indiana Infantry, and served until the
close of the war.  May 12, 1865, while moving a house at Murfreesboro, Tenn.,
to be used as a cook house for his regiment, the building collapsed, and he
was quite severely injured, and received his discharge October 17, 1865.
Since that time he has been engaged in farming and stock raising, and is
widely known and respected by all.  Henry Stillwell, father of the above, was
born in Kentucky, August 12, 1786.  At a very early day he moved with his
parents to Indiana, and when twenty years of age, married Sarah Simmons, of
Kentucky, who bore him six children, three still living; Elizabeth, Thomas and
Solomon.  His wife died in 1836, and in 1837 he wedded Mary Bolin.  To them
were born four children, three still living: Jarrett, Sarah and Charlotte.
This wife died in 1877, and in 1878, at the age of ninety-two years he married
his third wife, Nancy (Tindal) Kinder, of Indiana.  Mr. Stillwell is a
Democrat, and a member of the Baptist Church.

He is the oldest man in Pike County, being now ninety-nine years of age and
is still hale and hearty.  His mental faculties are unimpaired, and his
physical ability is wonderful, though his sight and hearing are somewhat
blunted.


 
From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998