BIO: Stucky - Breckinridge Co

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

Pike County, Washington Township, page 408  

SAMUEL H. STUCKY, a prominent farmer of Pike County, Ind., is a native of
the county, born March 25, 1833.  He is the eighth of twelve children born
to the marriage of Frederick Stucky and Elizabeth Love, natives of Breckin-
ridge County, Ky., and North Carolina, respectively.  The father, at the 
age of eighteen, in 1814, came to Knox County, Ind., and later removed to
Martin County, where he was married.  In 1830 he came to Pike County and
located in Petersburg and engaged in running a tannery with his father,
continuing for two years. He then entered a tract of land which he owned 
until 1849, when on account of having to pay some security debts he sold it.
He afterward bought a farm just south of town, where he lived until his death
in May 1868, his mother died in 1856.  Samuel H. was reared at home,
receiving his education in Petersburg.  At the age of eighteen he learned
the blacksmith's trade which he followed for five years.  He then worked on
his father's farm until in September, 1861, when he enlisted as a musician
in the band of the Twenty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry with which 
regiment he served one year.  In July, 1863, he enrolled in Company A,
Ninety-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry as a private but served as a musician
until July, 1865, when the regiment was mustered out. He was in the Atlanta
campaign and was present at the battles of Franklin, Nashville, and numerous
lesser engagements.  After the war he returned home and again engaged in
farming.  He is now the owner of 240 acres of land and raises and deals quite
extensively in stock, especially hogs.  In September, 1866, he was united in
marriage with Amanda (Ent) Lamb, and to their union have been born three
children, only one of whom, Pearl, is now living.  Mrs. Stucky has one son,
Leslie Lamb, by her former marriage.  Both Mr. Stucky and wife are members
of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  In politics he is a Republican, is a
stockholder in the Pike County Agricultural Society and is general
superintendent of the grounds.


From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998