Individual Details
Jacob Ulrich STUTSMAN
(18 Sep 1815 - 21 Nov 1870)
Remembrances of Vinna (Bowers) Helstern, tape-recorded 1989 by Bob Gross
#3 Stutzman family stories: “the Stutzmans were in the Pleasant Hill church, an early, active Brethren church in central IL. The Stutzmans had moved there shortly after the Civil War....“[David Wineland’s wife] had a brother named Valentine – we always called him Uncle Val – and a sister, Hannah. Aunt Hannah [married name Parrot] lived in S. Bend. I can remember visiting her in pre-school and early grades, on Navarre Street that ended at the river. I can remember going with her to SS at the 2nd S. Bend church. Also remember Uncle Val coming to visit her; a plain Brethren, plain coat. She eventually moved to Chicago. She had 2 daughters: one of them had been a nurse in S. Bend. Aunt Hannah [Parrot] and this daughter who was a nurse took care of the premature baby, Ruth, when my mother died...
Aunt Hannah went to Chicago where her son was a career navy person and the nurse-daughter went to CA. When I was teaching at Millersburg I got a letter from this cousin in CA, Rose Parrot,...another cousin was trying to get information on the Stutzman family and had traced a certain branch of the family to a Goshen or Millersburg address. Would I try to see if I could get information - 1925. Telephone, no answer. I put a letter in the mail to the address she gave me. The place where I boarded, Art Berkey, ran the hardware store and at certain times he stayed open in the evening. One evening, about 7 or 7:30 he came to the house with a tall, scraggly man. ‘This man says his mother got a letter from you and she isn’t able to come to town. He’d like to take you out to talk to her.’ So I went; model T Ford; curtains pretty well fastened down; cold weather; I didn’t know where we were going; never heard of the guy before; don’t know how far we went; seemed endless; NE of Millersburg....his mother was a dear little white-haired lady and she was a missing link [for the Stutzman family]; she had been a Stutzman. We got the information; studied the family Bible...don’t know much more... Jacob Stutzman was the father of my grandmother.... A name that goes back into the Brethren history to the early colonial days. [mentioned in Brethren in Colonial America]
Sadie Wampler had been a Stutzman; When Jacob Stutzman moved to IL, some parts of the family stayed in IN
Remembrances of Vinna (Bowers) Helstern, tape-recorded 1989 by Bob Gross
#3 Studebaker family - There is a cemetery on the edge of Goshen where Floy has found a couple of graves that tie into the Studebakers and Stutzmans; they married at one point;
#3 Stutzman family stories: “the Stutzmans were in the Pleasant Hill church, an early, active Brethren church in central IL. The Stutzmans had moved there shortly after the Civil War....“[David Wineland’s wife] had a brother named Valentine – we always called him Uncle Val – and a sister, Hannah. Aunt Hannah [married name Parrot] lived in S. Bend. I can remember visiting her in pre-school and early grades, on Navarre Street that ended at the river. I can remember going with her to SS at the 2nd S. Bend church. Also remember Uncle Val coming to visit her; a plain Brethren, plain coat. She eventually moved to Chicago. She had 2 daughters: one of them had been a nurse in S. Bend. Aunt Hannah [Parrot] and this daughter who was a nurse took care of the premature baby, Ruth, when my mother died...
Aunt Hannah went to Chicago where her son was a career navy person and the nurse-daughter went to CA. When I was teaching at Millersburg I got a letter from this cousin in CA, Rose Parrot,...another cousin was trying to get information on the Stutzman family and had traced a certain branch of the family to a Goshen or Millersburg address. Would I try to see if I could get information - 1925. Telephone, no answer. I put a letter in the mail to the address she gave me. The place where I boarded, Art Berkey, ran the hardware store and at certain times he stayed open in the evening. One evening, about 7 or 7:30 he came to the house with a tall, scraggly man. ‘This man says his mother got a letter from you and she isn’t able to come to town. He’d like to take you out to talk to her.’ So I went; model T Ford; curtains pretty well fastened down; cold weather; I didn’t know where we were going; never heard of the guy before; don’t know how far we went; seemed endless; NE of Millersburg....his mother was a dear little white-haired lady and she was a missing link [for the Stutzman family]; she had been a Stutzman. We got the information; studied the family Bible...don’t know much more... Jacob Stutzman was the father of my grandmother.... A name that goes back into the Brethren history to the early colonial days. [mentioned in Brethren in Colonial America]
Sadie Wampler had been a Stutzman; When Jacob Stutzman moved to IL, some parts of the family stayed in IN
Remembrances of Vinna (Bowers) Helstern, tape-recorded 1989 by Bob Gross
#3 Studebaker family - There is a cemetery on the edge of Goshen where Floy has found a couple of graves that tie into the Studebakers and Stutzmans; they married at one point;
Events
| Birth | 18 Sep 1815 | Montgomery Co. OH |  | ||
| Marriage | 3 Sep 1840 | Elkhart Co IN - Hannah STUDEBAKER |  | | |
| Residence (family) | 1868 | in Macoupin Co IL - Hannah STUDEBAKER | | ||
| Burial | 1870 | Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Macoupin Co IL | | ||
| Death | 21 Nov 1870 | Macoupin County, Illinois. | | |
Families
| Spouse | Hannah STUDEBAKER (1818 - 1896) |
| Child | John STUTSMAN (1841 - ) |
| Child | Samuel STUTSMAN (1843 - ) |
| Child | Lydia STUTSMAN (1845 - ) |
| Child | Henry STUTSMAN [wife: Mary ____] (1846 - ) |
| Child | Benjamin STUTSMAN (1847 - ) |
| Child | Susanna STUTSMAN (1848 - 1884) |
| Child | Hannah STUTSMAN [Mrs. H. Pleasant Parrett] (1850 - 1927) |
| Child | Valentine STUTSMAN [wife: Tabitha Gerlach] (1856 - 1930) |
| Child | David STUTSMAN [wife: Lucy Buford] (1853 - ) |
| Child | Levi STUTSMAN [wife: Mary Harshbarger] (1862 - ) |
| Father | Samuel STUTSMAN (1787 - 1861) |
| Mother | Magdalena Ullery (or Uhlrich) (1787 - 1838) |
| Sibling | Daniel Ulrich STUTSMAN (1811 - 1883) |
| Sibling | Susannah STUTSMAN [David Stutsman] (1813 - 1870) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth STUTSMAN (1818 - 1865) |
Notes
Marriage
Floy Bowers' History of the Bowers family lists her birth date as 19 Apr 1819.Ancestry.com indicates a birthdate of 19 May 1819.
Death
This gravestone was visited and a pencil rubbing was taken 26 July 2005 by Mary Sue HELSTERN Rosenberger.Endnotes
1. Floy Bowers.
2. Pleasant Hill Cemetery records, Macoupin County IL.
3. Floy Bowers.
4. "JACOB STUTZMAN (?-1775) His Children and Grandchildren by John Hale Stutesman, Jr..
5. "JACOB STUTZMAN (?-1775) His Children and Grandchildren by John Hale Stutesman, Jr..
6. gravestone, Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Macoupin Co IL , personal visit 2005 and photo.
7. Floy Bowers.
8. Pleasant Hill Cemetery records, Macoupin County IL.
9. gravestone, Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Macoupin Co IL .