Individual Details

Henry STURM Sr.

(1759 - 14 June 1832)

Events

Birth1757Sharpsburg, Washington, Maryland
Birth1757Virginia
Birth1759Virginia
MarriageAbt 1783, Rockingham, Virginia - Elizabeth WEAVER
Note1787possible connection Peter and Henry Storm - , Berkeley, Virginia
Census1790, Mason, Kentucky
Tax List1792Storms, Henry - , Mason, Kentucky
Land-shared1796(Henry WEAVER) Henry Storm and Henry Weaver to William Weaver and Adam Allan - , Mason, Kentucky
LandBef 7 January 1796leased land - Kentucky
Census1798Abraham and Jacob Storms - Dayton Twp., Hamilton, Ohio
ResidenceAbt 1800, Clark, Ohio
ResidenceBef 1801Tremont, Clark, Ohio
Residence1801Tremont, Clark, Ohio
CourtDecember 1803, Greene, Ohio
ResidenceBef 1806Storm, Weaver, Rector, Ross, Chapman - earliest settlers - , Champaign, Ohio
Land1806, Champaign, Ohio
Land1 August 1806, Champaign, Ohio
ResidenceBef 1811Storms Creek - Mad River Township, Champaign, Ohio
Residence1814History of Shelby County, Ohio p. 178 - , Shelby, Ohio
Residence1814Green Township, Shelby, Ohio
Residence1814near Tarawa Creek - , Shelby, Kentucky
Land27 August 1814, Champaign, Ohio
Residence1815Mosqueto Creek, Shelby, Ohio
Tax List1819, Shelby, Ohio
Note1820Green Township, Shelby, Ohio
Census1820, Shelby, Ohio
Tax List1821159 acres - SE1/4 R13 T2 S1 - , Shelby, Ohio
Tax List1824Green Township, Shelby, Ohio
Will14 September 1829, Shelby, Ohio
Will1832, Shelby, Ohio
Estate1832, Shelby, Ohio
Death14 June 1832Green Township, Shelby, Ohio
Note1883History of Shelby County - , Shelby, Ohio
Note1883History of Shelby County - , Shelby, Ohio
Residence (family)general history of Champaign County - , Champaign, Ohio - Elizabeth WEAVER
NoteSturm Cemetery - , Shelby, Ohio
NoteWeaver, Sturm, Rector, Chapman, Ross families emigrated together
NoteBirthplace listed in 1880 Census of children
Biographyvarious notes of Sturm family in West Virginia, KY, OH
Noteconnection to parents Johann Jacob Sturm and Anna Maria Margaretha Dellinger
NoteNo proof linking this Henry to parents.
MilitaryRevolutionary War, Pennsylvania command under Steuben
Ethnicity/Relig.of Dutch origin
Militarynot listed in DAR
NoteStorms Creek - , Champaign, Ohio
Biographyby Harlan Sturm
Biographyby Hartzell
Biography-shared(William WEAVER) William Weaver and Mary Kiger biography
Biography-shared(Henry WEAVER) , Champaign, Ohio

Families

SpouseElizabeth WEAVER (1765 - 1840)
ChildMargaret STURM (1784 - 1860)
ChildMatthias STURM Sr. (1785 - 1862)
ChildNicholas STURM (1788 - 1869)
ChildHenry STURM Jr. (1791 - 1868)
ChildPeter STURM (1792 - )
ChildElizabeth STURM (1793 - 1875)
ChildWilliam STURM (1797 - 1853)
ChildJacob STURM (1798 - 1831)
ChildFrederick STURM (1803 - )
ChildEphraim STURM (1807 - 1890)
ChildGeorge STURM (1813 - 1883)
ChildJohn STURM (1813 - 1884)
SiblingSarah STURM (1756 - 1823)

Notes

Note

On pages 1398, 1445 and 1465 of the 1787 "census" of Berkeley County, Va. will be found a listing for P. Storm for whom Henry Ambrose is responsible for the tax. The surrounding names, i.e. Weaver, Swim, Rankin and others indicates that this was in the Sleepy Creek area. This indicates the possibility that Peter Storm was the brother of Henry. Henry's marriage to Elizabeth Weaver strengthens this theory.

Tax List

http://kykinfolk.com/mason/masontax.html

Early Mason County Tithables
Photographed microfilmed originals using Nikon Coolpix 990 camera with macro lens, formatted and contributed by Marla McCullough, Mason County KYGenWeb Coordinator. [1792 is only year online]

http://kykinfolk.com/mason/DSCN2522i.jpg

Storms, Henry
1white male over 21
2 cattle

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[possible Sturm match]
Hughey Stern - transcription with a ? mark

http://kykinfolk.com/mason/tax.html#1792

17921002 2-Oct Stern? Hughey

MASON COUNTY 1792 TAX LIST
Abstracted from the original microfilmed tax rolls and contributed
by Marla McCullough - June 19, 2005

Land-shared

Another piece of evidence casting doubts on Monongalia
Valley Henry WEAVER's being Christopher WEAVER's son is the
following partial copy (eliminating paragraphs not pertain-
ing to this subject) of a Clark County manuscript received
from James H. JOHNSON RIN941 (compiler has inserted para-
graph numbers) which places our Henry WEAVER in Mason County
KY in 1796:
1. It was in the fall of 1793 that William and Mary
Kiger WEAVER were preparing to leave Berkeley County,
Virginia, for Kentucky.
8. Seven years or more were passed in Kentucky, six of
these on the plantation of James Ralph. Henry WEAVER,
William WEAVER, and Henry STORM, all of Mason County
leased the south end of his plantation 'in Canetocky'.
They were 'to Cleare and Improve as the(y) see fit for
there own profit Said tennents is to heave Six Crops
from the deat hereof' (The date, unfortunately has been
cut from the 'Artikel of Agreement')
9. But shortly thereafter, Henry STORM and Henry WEAVER
assigned their right and title of the within lease
to William WEAVER and Adam ALLAN. They completed this
transaction by writing on the back of the original
lease. The date was January 27, 1796.
(Note from compiler - Marriage records of Mason County KY
1791-1836 page 5, 28 Jan 1794 show Nancy KIGER to Adam
Allen. This shows the probability that Adam was William
Weaver's brother-in-law.)

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=4026167&id=I171

Land

Henry's brother in law, Henry Weaver reports that he, Henry Sturm (Storm) and William Weaver leased the south end of James Ralph's plantation in 'Canetocky'. They were 'to Cleare and Improve as they see fit for there own profit Said tennents is to heave Six Crops from the date hereof'. But on Jan. 7, 1796 the two Henrys transferred their right and title of the lease to William Weaver and Adam Allan. By 1807, four years after Ohio was admitted to the Union, the family had moved to Clark County, Ohio (with 8 yr. old twins, Henry age 16, Nicholas age 21) where Ephraim (b. 1807), twins George and John (1813) were born. Matthias, Nicholas and Henry all served in the war of 1812. Henry is listed as owning land in Shelby County Ohio before 1822.

Census

note:
Volume 1
Cinncinnati, Hamilton, Ohio
1817 Storm, Abraham
1817 Storms, Jacob

Residence

p. 39
Not far south of the county line, Storms Creek enters the river, and it extends through a small portion of this county. It receives its name from Mr. Storms, an old resident.

p. 93
Just when a settlement was made by the Stormses around and above Tremont City and German township it is not definitely known, but William Chapman and William Ross came near Tremont City in 1798.

Residence

{Henry Sturm family were only people in area before Weavers.] Christopher Weaver, with his brother-in law, Charles Rector settled at the mouth of Storms Creek, near what is now known as Tremont, Clark County, OH, in 1801

Residence

p.404-405
At the mouth of Storms Creek, near what is now known as Tremont, Clark, Ohio, Charles Rector, with his brother-in-law, Christopher Weaver, settled in 1801. Nature had fitted these men for a life in a new country; they were honest, sober and industrious. In addition to this, they exercised good judgment in the selection of lands. They were natives of Kentucky. They lived the lives of Christians, and when death knocked at their doors, he found them prepared. One of Rector's sons (Conaway) lives near the old homestead - Section 12 - and is honored and respected by all who know him.

William Weaver, a brother of Christopher. was born in 1759, at Bucks Co. Penn., near Philadelphia. He participated in the Revolutionary war, and was an eye-witness to Cornwallis' march from Yorktown. In 1783 or 1784, he was united with Mary Kiger, a native of Maryland. The couple removed to Kentucky in 1792, and in 1802, they emigrated to Ohio. They settled in what is now known as Clark County, where they rented of William Chapman 80 acres of land, a part of which was prairied land. Here they lived for five years, when they removed to Section 24 in this township, on land now owned by William Weaver, where they resided until death.

Henry Storm is remembered as the only man who lived in the neighborhood prior to the arrival of the Weavers.

Fifteen children were born to the couple. Of those yet living, William was born Dec. 25, 1795, in Kentucky. He has been a resident of this State since 1802 and has never been beyond the State boundaries, nor has he ever been aboard a train of cars. At the advanced age of 85 years he enjoys good health, is robust and is never so well satisfied as when the condition of the weather permits him to work in the garden. The bountiful supply of vegetables found in his garden attest to his skill as a gardener. He is a kind and benevolent gentleman, courteous to strangers and an indefatigable worker in the Lord's vineyard. We wish to add that, to our knowledge, he is the oldest resident in the township now living. Nancy was born Nov. 6, 1801, was married to Erastus Wilson and is still living. Nelson, born Dec. 22, 1817, the youngest child, lives on a part of the old homestead.

Court

At the December term, in the case of William Chipman vs. Henry Storm, judgment was confessed for one cent damages and costs.

1918 volume:
p. 196 list of old settlers in Greene Co., Ohio
Henry Sturm
Christopher Weaver
William Weaver

Residence

Charles Rector, Christopher Weaver, William Ross and William Weaver and wife settled in the part of Champaign County (now Clark County) around Tremont City. Henry Storm lived in the neighborhood prior to the Weavers. William Weaver moved into Mad River Township in 1806

Land

p. 314 Storms, Henry, 1 Aug 1806, Champaign
p. 316 Sturm, Henry, 25 Feb 1814, Champaign
p. 316 Sturm, Henry, 27 Aug 1814, Champaign

Land

p. 314
Storms, Henry (C) 1806 Aug 01, Champaign, R10 T05 S29

p. 316
Sturm, Henry (C) 1814 Feb 25, Champaign, R13 T02 S01
Sturm, Henry (C) 1814 Aug 27, Champaign, R13 T02 S01

Residence

Another family which settled in the Terre Haute vicinity were the Weavers. They became important factors in the early history of the township. The first poll book in 1811 listed four by that name, William, Christopher, Philip and Elijah. William Weaver married Mary Kiger in 1783 and this couple became the parents of 14 children.

In the same neighborhood where the Weavers were located was Henry Storms who was the first to settle along the creek that bears his name.

Residence

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sturm/anecdots.htm#first
"The first family who attempted to establish a home in the dense forest of Green Township were Henry Sturm and family, who came from Clark County, Ohio, some time during the year 1814, and made a settlement on the S. W. quarter of section 1. They had a family of twelve children, viz, Matthias, Margaret, Nicholas, Henry, Peter, William, Jacob, Frederick, Ephraim, Elizabeth, George, and John, all of whom are now deceased except George, who resides in Perry Township, Shelby County, and John, who owns and is residing on the old home farm where the family first settled. The next settlement was made by Samuel Robinson, a son in law of Henry Sturm's, who came from Champaign County, Ohio, with wife and two or three children in March, 1815, and settled on the N. W. quarter of section 19, where he made improvements and lived many years. The farm is now owned by George Ginn. In the year 1817 John R. and Abraham Medaris found their way to Green and made improvements on section 19. The two brothers purchased or entered the south part of the section. Abraham Medaris settled on the S. W. quarter and John Medaris on the S. E. quarter of the section. It was at the house of John R. Medaris that the first election in Green Township was held, in April, 1820.

Residence

p. 196
The first family who attempted to establish a home in the dense forest of Green Twp were Henry Sturm and family, who came from Clark Co OH some time during the year 1814, and made a settlement on the SW quarter of section 1. They had a family of 12 children, viz., Mattias, Margaret, Nicholas Henr, Peter, William, Jacob Frederick, Ephraim, Elizabeth, George. and John, all of whom are now deceased except George, who resides in perry Twp., Shelby Co and John, who owns and is residing on the old home farm where the family first settled.

The next settlement was made by Samuel Robinson, a son-in-law of henry Sturm's, who came from Champaign Co OH with wife and 2 or 3 small children in March 1815 and settled on the NW quarter of section 19 where he made imporvments and lived many years.

Land

p. 314
Storms, Henry (C) 1806 Aug 01, Champaign, R10 T05 S29

p. 316
Sturm, Henry (C) 1814 Feb 25, Champaign, R13 T02 S01
Sturm, Henry (C) 1814 Aug 27, Champaign, R13 T02 S01

Residence

Cleared out a farm in the wilderness, four years before Shelby county was laid out.

Tax List

p. 362 - Perry and part of Essex Townships, Shelby Co., Ohio
Sturms,
Wm.
Henry
Henry, Jr.
Mathias

Note

Henry soon became central to the early settlement, served as Justice of the Peace in 1820, having been a trustee of the town. There is an anecdote of the travails of one Allen S. Forsyth and his quest to find his real father. Having been living as a runaway child, "He stopped at a house, and asked to stay over night. The man asked him his name, and where he was going. He told him his name, and that he was going to find his father in Sidney. The man told him his father did not live in Sidney, but had moved on to a farm. This man was Henry Sturm, of Green Township. He took the boy in, kept him all night, and the next day (as it was rainy). The following day Mr. Sturm took his horse, and told the boy he would go with him, as there was no road and was woods all the way. Mr. Sturm went with the boy to within sight of home, when he left him." The concentration of Sturms in Ohio has left a mark, aside from the numerous descendants. There is a Sturms Creek, and even a Sturm Cemetery near the land of Henry and his descendants.

Census

p. 197a
Henry Sturm
Males:
2 under 10
1 10-16
1 16-18
2 16-26
1 45 and over

Females:
1 45 and over

Tax List

Sturm, Henry - non-resident

Tax List

p. 368
Sturm,
Henry
Henry Jr.
Jacob
Mathias
Wm.

Will

DEATH:14 JUN 1832, Shelby, OH

WILL:The last Will and Testament of Henry STURM, Senior, tran- scribed from a copy of the original contained in Estate File No. A72 in the probate records of Shelby County, Ohio: In the Name of God, Amen. I, Henry STURM Snr of Shelby County and State of Ohio being in perfect Health and of Sound mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of Death, and the uncertainty of the time thereof; and being desirous to Settle my worldly affairs, and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence do therefore make and publish this my last Will and Testament, in the manner and form following That is to Say First and principally, I commit my Soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body to the Earth, to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors herein named -- 2nd I give and devise unto my beloved Wife Elizabeth all my real Property and farming Utensils, One Horse and four Cows; all my hogs, Sheep and geese during her life time. It is my Will that the remainder of my property after my Death Should be sold at public Sale with whatever Else my Wife sees proper to have Sold, and after Death of my wife, Elizabeth STURM. If my Two youngest Sons (viz) John and George STURM Should be of Age (If not that they till the place whereon I now live until they become of Age), and the place then be sold and the Money arising from the Sale of personal property and Lands to give unto my Sons, namely, William, Jacob, John and
George STURM, Eighty Acres of Land Each, Except so much of the South West quarter of Section No. 1, Township No. 2 and Range No. 13 M.R. as lies North East of Mosquitoe Creek which Land I will and devise unto my Son Henry Sturm, and 31y of the Money arising from Said Sale to pay unto Margaret Murphy's heirs (viz) Frederick, Sarah, and Thomas R. Robinson my grand Children, I will and devise Twenty Dollars to be equally divided among them and, unto Matthias STURM My Eldest Son I will and devise Twenty Dollars, and to Nicholas as my 2nd Son I will Twenty Dollars, and to Henry STURM my 3rd Son I will Thirty Five Dollars, and to Elizabeth ROBINSON, my 2nd Daughter Fifteen Dollars, and to Ephraim STURM, I will and devise only Five Dollars on account of His Disobedience to me as a Child, and the Remainder of the Money Arising from Said Sale it is my Will that my Executors hereinafter named Divide Equally among my sons (viz) William, Jacob, John and George STURM - - - and Lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my Wife Elizabeth STURM, Matthias and Henry STURM My Executors of this my last Will and Testament Revoking and annulling all former Wills by me heretofore Made - - - ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last Will and Testament - - - in testamony whereof I Henry STURM Snr have set my hand and affixed my seal this the 14th day of September 1829---
his
Henry STURM Snr
mark
Signed Sealed published and
declared by Hnery STURM Snr
as and for his last Will and
Testament in the presence of
us. Who at his request and
in his presence have Subscribed
our names as Witness thereto --
Adam Hall
David Bulle
Christopher Tilbury

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=familyhart&id=I193900
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sturm/henry-will.html

Will

Henry Sturm - Will 1832 Shelby Co. OH, cA72

The last Will and Testament of Henry STURM, Senior, transcribed from a copy of the original contained in Estate File No. A72 in the probate records of Shelby County, Ohio:

In the Name of God, Amen. I, Henry STURM Snr of Shelby County and State of Ohio being in perfect Health and of Sound mind memory and understanding considering the certainty of Death, and the uncertainty of the time thereof; and being desirous to Settle my worldly affairs, and thereby be the better prepared to leave this world when it shall please God to call me hence do therefore make and publish this my last Will and Testament, in the manner and form following That is to Say First and principally, I commit my Soul into the hands of Almighty God and my body to the Earth, to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors herein named -- 2nd I give and devise unto my beloved Wife Elizabeth all my real Property and farming Utensils, One Horse and four Cows; all my hogs, Sheep and geese during her life time. It is my Will that the remainder of my property after my Death Should be sold at public Sale with whatever Else my Wife sees proper to have Sold, and after Death of my wife Elizabeth STURM If my Two youngest Sons (viz) John and George STURM Should be of Age (If not that they till the place whereon I now live until they become of Age), and the place then be sold and the Money arising from the Sale of personal property and Lands to give unto my Sons , namely, William, Jacob, John and George STURM , Eighty Acres of Land Each, Except so much of the South West quarter of Section No. 1, Township No. 2 and Range No. 13 M.R. as lies North East of Mosquitoe Creek which Land I will and devise unto my Son Henry Sturm , and 31y of the Money arising from Said Sale to pay unto Margaret Murphy's heirs (viz) Frederick, Sarah, and Thomas R. Robinson. my grand Children , I will and devise Twenty Dollars to be equally divided among them and, unto Matthias STURM My Eldest Son I will and devise Twenty Dollars, and to Nicholas as my 2nd Son I will Twenty Dollars, and to Henry STURM my 3rd Son I will Thirty Five Dollars, and to Elizabeth ROBINSON, my 2nd Daughter Fifteen Dollars , and to Ephraim STURM , I will and devise only Five Dollars on account of His Disobedience to me as a Child, and the Remainder of the Money Arising from Said Sale it is my Will that my Executors hereinafter named Divide Equally among my sons (viz) William, Jacob, John and George STURM - - - and Lastly, I do hereby constitute and appoint my Wife Elizabeth STURM, Matthias and Henry STURM My Executors of this my last Will and Testament Revoking and annulling all former Wills by me heretofore Made - - - ratifying and confirming this and none other to be my last Will and Testament - - - in testamony whereof I Henry STURM Snr have set my hand and affixed my seal this the 14th day of September 1829---
his
Henry STURM Snr
mark
Signed Sealed published and
declared by Hnery STURM Snr
as and for his last Will and
Testament in the presence of
us. Who at his request and
in his presence have Subscribed
our names as Witness thereto --
Adam Hall
David Bulle
Christopher Tilbury

Estate

p. 547 - Index to Estates and Guardianships, 1819-1850
Sturm, Henry, 1832, estate, A72
Sturm, Peggy Ann, etal., 1836, guardianship, A28

Note

History Of Shelby County, 1883 Sutton
Green Township
Page 204

John Sturm, Farmer; P.O. Tawawa, Ohio
Mr. Sturm was born in Clarke County, Ohio Jan. 31, 1813, and was brought to Shelby County by his parents, Henry and Elizabeth Sturm, in 1814, who settled in what is now Green Township, where they made improvements, and passed the remainder of their days. They were, as near as can be ascertained, the first settlers in Green Township, their nearest neighbors being six miles distant, and their home was what we can justly call a home in the woods,with no one except the Indians near them, and they were everyday visitors, calling to ask some favor of the white man. They reared a family of twelve children, viz., Matthias, Margaret, Nicholas, Henry, Peter, William, Jacob, Frederick, Ephraim, Elizabeth, George, and John. Mathias, Nicholas, and Henry served in the war of 1812. All of the above named children are now dead, expect George and John, twin brothers. George is now living in Perry Township, Shelby County, and John is living on the home farm in Green Township. Mr. Sturm died June 14, 1832 aged seventy five years. His companion departed this life April 3, 1840, aged eighty five years. He had a reputation as an expert with his rifle and was a successful
hunter. Mr. John Sturm, the subject of this sketch, was reared a farmer and spent his minority days on the farm, clearing, grubbing and preparing the soil for cultivation. On the 30th day of July, 1834, he married Mrs. Rachel M. Barbee, by whom he reared six children, viz., Elias B., Julia A., John F., David I., Mary E., and Eliza J. Mr. and Mrs. Sturm settled on his father's home farm where they have resided since. Miss Barbee, wife of Mr. Sturm, was born in Butler County, Ohio, Aug. 28, 1817, and came to Shelby County with her parents, Elias and Mary Barbee, in 1834, who setttled on the N.W. quarter of section 2, Green Township, where Mr. Barbee died Feb. 1, 1842. His companion died Oct. 17, 1871.

http://ohiobios.ancestralsites.com/shelby_co/b017.html#sturmj

Note

History of Shelby County
Sutton 1883
Perry Township
P. 221

George Sturm

The first we can learn of the Sturms is that in 1757 Henry Sturm was born in Virginia, and came to Ohio, and located in Clarke County; but the time is not known, but was prior to the war of 1812, for he had three sons in the army who went from Clarke County. He was married to Elizabeth Weaver, and had a family of fourteen children. George and John, twin brothers, were the youngest of the family, and were born in Clarke County, January 321, 1813.


In August or September, 1814, Henry Sturm and his family moved to what is now Shelby County, and located in Green Township. The nearest white settler to them at the time was David Henry, nearly six miles distant, and A. Wilkinson in Champaign County, six miles distant. Here in the woods, George Sturm was raised without privelege of schools, the Indians being far more numerous in those days than the whites. George and John at the death of their father in 1832 bought the old homestead. This they owned together for a number of years, when George sold his interest to his brother, and removed to Illinois, but remained there only a few months, when he returned and bought the homestead of his wife's father- Isaac Stout- in Perry Township, section 9, where he now resides. He was married to Mary A. Stout in 1833. They have raised a family of five children, Matilda, Rebecca, Martha, Hannah E., and Rachel A. Isaac Stout located in Perry in 1831. Mr. Sturm has retired from labor, being afflicted with a nervousness that prevents him from labor. His wife also has been a sufferer for years, and is compelled to walk with crutches. Mr. Sturm has been living in the county sixty-eight years.

http://ohiobios.ancestralsites.com/shelby_co/b017.html#sturmj

Note

Latitude:40.2278774
Longitude:-84.0190985


http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=43646

Note

Historically, families, relatives, and friends migrated
westward in groups, frequently settling in the same locali-
ties. It seems that the ancestors of this compiler who
eventually settled in Mad River TWP which became Champaign
County with another split becoming Clark County, the WEAV-
ERS, STURMS, RECTORS, CHAPMANS,and ROSS families all lived at one
time in the western edge of Berkeley County, VA and the
nearby eastern edge of Hampshire Co. (Note in the above
1782 Hampshire County census that William CHAPMAN and two
ROSS families had the same census taker!) (A settlement in
Hampshire County was supposedly named for the RECTOR fami-
ly, but thus far this compiler has yet to locate*
where it might have been - there is, of course, Rector-
ville, about seven miles east of Maysville (formerly Lime-
stone), Mason County, Kentucky. Most of the members of the
above families spent several years in Mason County before
coming to Mad River Twp. (William CHAPMAN's neighbor and
"in-law", Charles RECTOR, according to an affidavit, he was
drafted into military service by Captain Tepley, in the
spring of 1781, at Hampshire County, Virginia, (now West
Virginia) near Oldtown "on the Virginia side." The pension
was apparently denied because it lacked substantiating
evidence. A note in the file states that the Colonel
Cresap Charles said he served as an orderly sergeant died
in October 1775. Old Town is in present day Allegany Coun-
ty, Maryland across the Potomac from Green Spring,
Hampshire County, West Virginia. This is the closest
discription of the locale where these families lived -
about 30 miles west of Sleepy Creek, the WEAVER'S home.)

Note

John Sturm, Shelby Co, Ohio - lists both parents born in U.S.

George Sturm, Shelby Co, Ohio - lists both parents born in Virginia

Note

by Harlan Sturm
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sturm/sturm_gen.html
sturm@hfa.umass.edu
"Many are now convinced that Henry Sturm was born into the family of Johann Jacob Sturm, Jr. of Maryland. The family of Johann Jacob Sturm is well documented, mainly at the Hart family website . Henry's mother, then, would be Anna Maria Margaretha Dellinger. Brett Berry, Lawrence Weaver and others had long suspected this connection which is complicated by the fact that Henry was not included in the family will. Other coincidences, however, are persuasive. I leave it to others to document anything before Henry Sturm Sr.."

14 Apr 2007 Correspondence
RE: connection of Henry Sturm to parents
Hi Jill,

I don't think there is an actual birth certificate, and the first census was in 1790 when he was already 33, not sure if we've found him there either. The mention, as I recall it, is in the History of Shelby County Ohio which I excerpt and link off of the page, but I have to admit it's been a while since I've looked it up.

Best,

Harlan
--
Harlan Sturm
at Jeff's in Northampton
413-584-9028

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http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=familyhart&id=I193900
LAURENCE A WEAVER JR., SUN CITY CENTER, FL.
BIRTH:1757.
On pages 1398, 1445 and 1465 of the 1787 "census" of Berkeley County, Va. will be found a listing for P. Storm for whom Henry Ambrose is responsible for the tax. The surrounding names, i.e. Weaver, Swim, Rankin and others indicates that this was in the Sleepy Creek area. This indicates the possibility that Peter Storm was the brother of Henry. Henry's marriage to Elizabeth Weaver strengthens this theory.

Military

p. 600
Isaac Sturm, son of Henry and Catherine (Dalrymple) Sturm . . . was born in Ohio, November 13, 1824.

His grandfather Sturm was a soldier of 1812, and his father a soldier of the Revolution, said to have served in one of the Pennsylvania commands under Steuben.

[This should read that his father was War of 1812, and his grandfather in the Revolutionary War.]

Ethnicity/Relig.

p. 600
The Sturms were of Dutch origin.

[If this is true, then Henry Sturm, Sr. would not be related to the Johann Jacob Sturm and the German line. However, it may be that they were referred to as Pennsylvania Deutsch, which then became known as Pennsylvania Dutch, and then possibly then misrepresented as simply Dutch.]

Military

Storm/Strum/Storms: no Henry listed
Jacob, b 1762 MD d 4-6-1842 VA m (1)Catherine Frushour Pvt MD

Note

The stream emptying into Mad River in the extreme northern part of the township was called Storm's Creek, after the man Storms in question.

(History of Clark Co OH - scanned)

Biography

http://people.umass.edu/sturm/narratives.html

Henry Sturm Sr. was born in Virginia (Colony) in 1757. His people would have been farmers, perhaps having immigrated a few years before Henry was born. In Undaunted Courage Stephen E. Ambrose has a handy paragraph concerning the difference between English and German farmers in eighteenth-century Virginia:


"German immigrants, farming in the Shenandoah Valley, had a much different relationship with the land from that of the planters of English stock. The Germans had not received huge grants of land from the English king or the royal governor; they had bought their land, in relatively small holdings. Coming from a country with a tradition of keeping the farm in the same family for generations, even centuries, they were in it for the long haul, not for quick profit. They cleared their fields of all trees and stumps, plowed deep to arrest erosion, housed their cattle in great barns, used manure as fertilizer, and practiced a precise scheme of crop rotating. They worked with their own hands, and their help came from their sons and relatives. No overseer, indentured servant or slave--men with little interest in the precious undertaking of making a family farm, was allowed near their fields." (Ambrose p. 33, footnote to John Hammond Moore, Albemarle: Jefferson's County, 1727-1926 Univ. Press of Virginia, 1976.)

Although we are not sure about his parents, it is possible he had a sister Sarah Sturm who married Henry Weaver (1750-1802), brother of wife Elizabeth whom he married in 1786 at the age of 29. At the time of her marriage, she was 21, the daughter of Christopher Weaver and Elizabeth Anna Lintzin. She (Elizabeth) was born in Germantown, PA in 1765. They lived initially in West Virginia where their first son was born in 1786 (Matthias), after which they moved to Kentucky where Nicholas Sturm was born (1788) as was Henry Sturm (Jr.), born in Mason, Co, Kentucky (1791). In 1793, still in Kentucky, twins were born (Margaret and Elizabeth) followed by Jacob Sturm in 1799. Henry's brother in law, Henry Weaver reports that he, Henry Sturm (Storm) and William Weaver leased the south end of James Ralph's plantation in 'Canetocky'. They were 'to Cleare and Improve as they see fit for there own profit Said tennents is to heave Six Crops from the date hereof'. But on Jan. 7, 1796 the two Henrys transferred their right and title of the lease to William Weaver and Adam Allan. By 1807, four years after Ohio was admitted to the Union, the family had moved to Clark County, Ohio (with 8 yr. old twins, Henry age 16, Nicholas age 21) where Ephraim (b. 1807), twins George and John (1813) were born. Matthias, Nicholas and Henry all served in the war of 1812. Henry is listed as owning land in Shelby County Ohio before 1822.
Notes in the History of Shelby County, Ohio report that "The first family who attempted to establish a home in the dense forest of Green Township were Henry Sturm and family," (p. 178). At that time, Henry was 57 and Elizabeth would have been 47. Henry soon became central to the early settlement, served as Justice of the Peace in 1820, having been a trustee of the town. There is an anecdote of the travails of one Allen S. Forsyth and his quest to find his real father. Having been living as a runaway child, "He stopped at a house, and asked to stay over night. The man asked him his name, and where he was going. He told him his name, and that he was goijng to find his father in Sidney. The man told him hsi father did not live in Sidney, but had moved on to a farm. this man was Henry Sturm, of Green Township. He took the boy in, kept him all night, and the next day (as it was rainy). The following day Mr. Sturm took his horse, and told the boy he would go with him, as there was no rroad and was woods all the way. Mr. Sturm went with the boy to within sight of home, when he left him." The concentration of Sturms in Ohio has left a mark, aside from the numberous descendants. There is a Sturms Creek, and even a Sturm Cemetery near the land of Henry and his descendants.
There are indications that Ephraim was a troubled child, such that Henry, in his will gives him only a third of that given to other heirs "on account of His Disobedience to me as a Child." Henry's will is 1829, he died on June 14, 1832 (age 75) and Elizabeth eight years later on April 4, 1840 (also 75), both in Green Township, Shelby County, Ohio. By 1835 some of the family had moved to Stark Co. Illinois to take advantage of a federal land grant for veterans of the war of 1812. Many stayed behind in Ohio, others to Illinois and westward. Concentrations of the descendants of Henry and Elizabeth are in Kansas, Iowa, California, Montana, Washington and of course, Illinois.

Biography

http://hartzell.mymcn.org/family/sturm/sturm.html
[note: I do not have records nor confirmation of all the children she lists, including 2 sets of twins]

Henry Sturm Sr. b. 1757 in Virginia, d. Shelby Co., Ohio, 6/14/1832, married in Virginia in 1786 to Elizabeth Weaver, b. 1765 Germantown, PA, d. 4/3/1840 Green Township, Shelby Co, Ohio. (1) There is no clear link to his ancestors, but the name is German. Most of the Germans were in Pennsylvania, so it's interesting that he was born in Virgina. The Sturms were forest-dwellers and frontiersmen, and seemed to keep moving west as the land was developed for farming.
Henry's sister married Elizabeth's brother and the clans stayed together. Two Weaver brothers and Henry leased some land in Kentucky; then in 1796 Henry and his brother-in-law Henry Weaver moved to Clark County Ohio and in 1822 to Shelby County, Ohio, where he died ten years later at age 75. They were remarked upon as being the "first family who attempted to establish a home in the dense forest of Green Township."

Elizabeth marched right along, treking through the wilderness and giving birth to at least eleven children (1788,1789, 1791, 1793 (twins), 1797, 1798, 1799, 1807, 1813 (another set of twins. If her birthdate is right, she would have been 48!) They all grew up to have children of their own (not sure if Fredrick survived) -- lots of children. Elizabeth lived a rough life and survived to age 75.

Children of Henry Sturm and Elizabeth Weaver:
Matthias b. 1786, West Virginia
Nicholas Sturm b. 1788 Kentucky
Henry Sturm Jr. b. 1791 Mason Co. Kentucky (our ancestor)
Margaret and Elizabeth Sturm (twins) b. 1793, Kentucky
William Sturm b. 1797 in Mason, Kentucky
Frederick Sturm b. 1798 in Mason, Kentucky
Jacob Sturm b. 1799
Ephraim Sturm b. 1807 Clark County, Ohio
George and John Sturm (twins) b. 1813
This is a lot of moving around (see map links.) Shelby County, Ohio would have been the far frontier in pre-1822; "no one except the Indians near them." (History of Shelby County). Shelby County is just east of Darke county, where our Hartzell ancestors settled some years later. Henry Senior left 80 acres to each of his sons, except Ephraim who only got five dollars due to "disobedience." Our ancestor received "so much of the South West quarter of Section No. 1, Township No. 2 and Range No. 13 M.R. as lies North East of Mosquitoe Creek". There is "a Sturm Cemetery near the land of Henry and his descendants." (in Shelby County, Ohio.)

Biography-shared

The following which was received from James H. JOHNSON
RIN941, a descendant of William WEAVER. Paragraph numbers
have been inserted by this compiler for ease in referencing
these notes on William WEAVER and his brother, Henry WEAVER.

1. It was in the fall of 1793 that William and Mary Kiger
WEAVER were preparing to leave Berkeley County, Virginia,
for Kentucky.

2. Good church members as they were, one step preliminary to
their departure was a letter attesting the fact.

3. Consequently, the deacon who attended to such matters sat
down and wrote: "This is to certify that William WEAVER and Mary his wife has been acceptable members in Berkeley Circuit, given under my hand, this fourth day of October A D 1793" W. McLenahan Deacon Near Bath.

4. Mary, twenty-one years of age, with three children already and a fourth expected in a few months, must have shouldered a good bit of responsibility in this momentous undertaking. Apparently, William, thirteen years older than she, was fired with tales of the new land opened to citizens of this young and independent country.

5. William had helped to make it free. A soldier who fought in the Revolution as a member of a company from Bucks
County, Pennsylvania, he was an eye-witness to Cornwallis'
march from Yorktown. Indeed, besides a marker placed on his
grave by some patriotic society, one used to be able to read on his headstone in Terre Haute Cemetery (Ohio) this statement: "A soldier in the war."

6. Long years ahead of him, a good head on his shoulders, health, a young wife, a growing family, good land in the west to be cheaply bought - small wonder they were willing to set out on the journey with high hopes and the necessary household belongings.

7. Elijah, the eldest child, was eight years old when the family migrated to Kentucky. Tall for his age, lithe of body, and adapted to the ways of the pioneers, he appears to have taken his place courageously by his father's side. His young mother, too, with toddlers to care for, must have leaned heavily upon him.

8. Seven years or more were passed in Kentucky, six of these on the plantation of James RALPH. Henry WEAVER, William WEAVER, and Henry STORM, all of Mason County leased the
south end of his plantation 'in Canetocky'. They were 'to Cleare and Improve as the see fit for there own profit Said tennents is to heave Six Crops from the deat hereof' (The date, unfortunately has been cut from the 'Artikel of Agreement')

9. But shortly thereafter, Henry STORM and Henry WEAVER
transferred their right and title of the within lease to William WEAVER and Adam ALLAN. They completed this transaction by writing on the back of the original lease. The date was January 7, 1796.

(Note: Adam ALLAN, mentioned in paragraph 9 above may have been William's brother-in-law since in the Mason County Marriage records 1791-1836, a Nancy Kiger m. Adam ALLEN page 5, 28 Jan 1791. This is assuming that Nancy was the sister of William's wife, Mary E. Kiger.)

[Compiled by Laurence A. Weaver]

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=4026167&id=I173

Biography-shared

p. 126
The Weavers

Endnotes

1. Don Hartman, Hartman Family Records (http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart/).

2. The Decendants of Henry Sturm [1757-1832] (sturm@hfa.umass.edu http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sturm/sturm_gen.html#Henry1; http://people.umass.edu/sturm/narratives.html).

3. The Decendants of Henry Sturm [1757-1832] (sturm@hfa.umass.edu http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sturm/sturm_gen.html#Henry1; http://people.umass.edu/sturm/narratives.html).

4. compiled by John R. Seely, Descendants of Henry Sturm & Elizabeth Weaver 1984 (Includes transcription of will of Mathias Sturm, Dec. 23, 1861. Also family group sheets provided by Irene Berg of Veradale, Washington, and Ruth Wilson of Toulon, Illinois.).

5. .

6. Shelbyana.

7. Don Hartman, Hartman Family Records (http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart/).

8. compiled by Bryan Weaver (Laurence Weaver, Jr.; Bryan Weaver MoyWeav@aol.com; Betty Jo Scott, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=4026167&id=I708.

9. Don Hartman, Hartman Family Records (http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart/).

10. compiled by Bryan Weaver (Laurence Weaver, Jr.; Bryan Weaver MoyWeav@aol.com; Betty Jo Scott, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=4026167&id=I708.

11. The Decendants of Henry Sturm [1757-1832] (sturm@hfa.umass.edu http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sturm/sturm_gen.html#Henry1; http://people.umass.edu/sturm/narratives.html).

12. .

13. Rockel, William (1908), http://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5Qacyt_wZKIVtMQK3tMFxnNMIY3Sti-vEhOOe0bmenUsLO1LXK2Saj-Y7_6EADAPbMLXXlK3A2SyuVmFeYnDC0I9ytjyZwLuZDhF2t8KBoUDI7jwK_mczDW8hXjDZRmGwjgGW2KCYZ6xVqHX5HcxTzQ_f5VY0Sc-CCTJqixQV3Ffoe8OHmTcX2heOzV5E36TzSnLRH-.

14. , History of Clark Co., Ohio (N.p.: n.p., 1881), .

15. compiled by Bryan Weaver (Laurence Weaver, Jr.; Bryan Weaver MoyWeav@aol.com; Betty Jo Scott, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=4026167&id=I708.

16. History of Champaign Co Ohio, 1881 (Chicago. W.H. Beers & Co).

17. R. S. Dills, History and Biography of Greene Co., Ohio (Dayton, Ohio: n.p., 1881), .

18. Champaign County Genealogical Society Newsletter (Ohio: n.p., Apr/May/Jun 2001).

19. compiled by Ellen T. Berry & David A. Berry, Early Ohio Settlers, Purchasers of Land in Southwestern Ohio, 1800-1840.

20. compiled by Ellen T. Berry & David A. Berry, Early Ohio Settlers, Purchasers of Land in Southwestern Ohio, 1800-1840.

21. researched and copied by Past Stickley (Feb, 2000, Champaign Co Genealogical Society Chapter), Early Settlers of Champaign Co OH and Surrounding Areas.

22. History of Shelby Co OH: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers (1883, R. Sutton & Co.).

23. History of Shelby Co OH: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers (1883, R. Sutton & Co.).

24. , History of the Communities of Shelby Co., Ohio (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).

25. compiled by Ellen T. Berry & David A. Berry, Early Ohio Settlers, Purchasers of Land in Southwestern Ohio, 1800-1840.

26. Shelbyana.

27. , History of Shelby Co., OH and Representative Citizens (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).

28. compiled by Esther Weygandt Powell, Early Ohio Tax Records.

29. The Decendants of Henry Sturm [1757-1832] (sturm@hfa.umass.edu http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~sturm/sturm_gen.html#Henry1; http://people.umass.edu/sturm/narratives.html).

30. .

31. copied by Verna Taglieber, Shelby Co OH, Land Tax 1821, Sale of land for taxes 1822-1829 (Shelby Co. Genealogical Society).

32. compiled by Esther Weygandt Powell, Early Ohio Tax Records.

33. Don Hartman, Hartman Family Records (http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart/), http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=familyhart&id=I193900.

34. compiled by Urbana Chapter DAR, Champaign Co., Ohio, Marriage Records, Probate Court, 1805-1865, in Volumes, A to G.

35. (Shelby Co Genealogical Society).

36. Bell, Carol Willsey.

37. compiled by Bryan Weaver (Laurence Weaver, Jr.; Bryan Weaver MoyWeav@aol.com; Betty Jo Scott, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=4026167&id=I708.

38. compiled by Ruth Bowers and Anita Short.

39. Don Hartman, Hartman Family Records (http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/familyhart/).

40. Shelbyana.

41. History of Shelby Co OH: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers (1883, R. Sutton & Co.).

42. History of Shelby Co OH: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers (1883, R. Sutton & Co.), p. 221.

43. , Historical Facts and Trivia of Champaign County, Ohio (N.p.: Ohio Genealogical Society, n.d.).

44. by Rosalee Pleis (William Larkings http://www.olden-times.com/oldtimenebraska/n-rpleis/rpleis02.html).

45. Leeson, Michael A., Documents and Biography pertaining to the settlement of Stark Co., IL.

46. Leeson, Michael A., Documents and Biography pertaining to the settlement of Stark Co., IL.

47. .

48. (http://hartzell.mymcn.org/family/sturm/sturm.html).

49. compiled by Bryan Weaver (Laurence Weaver, Jr.; Bryan Weaver MoyWeav@aol.com; Betty Jo Scott, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=4026167&id=I708.

50. researched and copied by Past Stickley (Feb, 2000, Champaign Co Genealogical Society Chapter), Early Settlers of Champaign Co OH and Surrounding Areas.