Individual Details

Residence

p.407
Henry moved to Ohio prior to the War of 1812.

Military

Henry Storms, Pvt.
Capt. Abner Barritt's Infantry Co., 1 Reg't Ohio Militia

Military

977.3513 M2d
Deceased veterans from Stark Co and nearby cemeteries

Census

Henry Sturm, Jr.

Males:
2 under 10
1 26-45

Females:
1 under 10
1 16-26

Census

Henry Sturms
Males:
1 under 5
3 5-10
1 10-15
1 30-40
Females:
1 under 5
1 10-15
1 30-40

Residence

brother to Mathias Sturms, Sr.
Peter, son of Henry, is Methodist Preacher in Bradford, IL

Land

p. 67
The assessment of 1839, for the first district of the new county, was made by Isaac Spencer. In the following list the names of owners and values of personal properties are given, the figures denoting dollars:...
Sturm, Henry S. 240;
Sturm, Samuel 97;
Sturm, Matthew, Jr. 97;
Sturm, Nicholas, 285;
Seeley, Israel, 59;
Seeley, Henry, 327;
Sturm, Matthias, 257;

Land

Henry Sturm, n.e. qr of s.e. qr., sec 23; Dec. 1, 1843
Henry Sturm, w. hf. of s.e. qr.; sec. 23; Nov. 14, 1843

Census

p. 129 873/849
Henry Sturms, 69, farmer, 200/300, KY
Catherine, 65, SC

Biography

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

Henry Sturm Jr. was born in Mason Co., Kentucky in 1791, while his father and Henry Weaver were working land there. Kentucky became the fifteenth state in the Union June 1, 1792. They moved shortly after 1796, back to Shelby County, Ohio. Henry married Catherine Dalrymple in 1814 when he was twenty three and she was twenty. She was born in South Carolina Feb. 5, 1795, daughter of George Dalrymple and Ann Miller. Henry Jr. was appointed Constable of Perry Township in Shelby County, Ohio on April 6, 1818 by the trustees of the town, a group which included his father, Henry Sr. The pair had eleven children: George Dalrymple Sturm (1816); Peter Sturm (1817); Rebecca Sturm (1818); William Henry Sturm (who died, killed in battle in 1862) soon after moving to Shelby, Co. Ohio in 1822 where father Henry and mother had lived since 1807); Isaac Sturm (1824); Elizabeth Sturm (1827); Abner J. Sturm (1830); Catherine Sturm (1832) the same year grandfather Henry Sturm died; Nancy Sturm (1834); Margaret J. Sturm (1838, Ohio); and finally Rachel Sturm born (1841) in Stark Co. Illinois where the family had moved around 1836, Henry at the age of 45, Catherine 41. The move of the Sturms to Illinois went in phases, and since Matthias Nicholas and Henry all fought in the war of 1812, they were eligible for federal land in Stark County, Ill. The federal land records show several purchases of land by Henry (2); his son Isaac, John T (Ephraim's son); Joseph (Nicholas' son); Lervis (Lewis?, Nicholas' son); Mathias and Matthias (5) and Nicholas (6) as well as Nicholas II (1) who bought a school in 1836. The election there in August of 1834 saw the name of one Lewis Sturm(s) added to this lists, since he seems to be the first of the Sturm men to settle in Stark County, Illinois. He was about twenty two years old, and he is probably responsible for bringning the rest of the family. By by the county election in August of 1836, of the fifty four votes polled, thirty one were new, including the names of Henry Sturm(s), Mathias Sturm(s) and Henry Seeley among others. Lewis Sturm is assumed to be Henry's nephew, son of Nicholas. The Stark County Illinois census for 1850 lists Henry Sturm, age 58, a farmer, his wife Catharine, age 55, daughter Nancy, 16, Margaret age 12, Rachel age 9 and Lydia P. Phenix age six. His son George D. Sturm is also listed with his family, as well as brother Matthias Sturm Sr. (age 65), Henry Seeley Sturm, age 41, Samuel Sturm (37) Peter, Simon, Abner, and Matthias Sturm Jr. are also listed as heads of families. In Stark County and its Pioneers the Sturms are remembered, many had for a time recorded their last name with an 's':


"The Sturms family had some of them reached Seele's Point in 1834 and detachments continued to arrive from time to time, making claims near the south part of Osceola Grove, till they had a settlement of their own. They were regular frontier's men, every one "mighty hunters:" of tall stature, combining strength and activity in an unusual degree. Wearing an Indian garb of fringed bucksins, their feet encased in mocasins, with bowie knife at the belt and rifle on the shoulder; no wonder many a new comer started from them in affright, supposing they had encountered genuine "scalpers." But these men were by no means as savage as they seemed, but had hearts to which friend or stranger never appealed in vain. Very many old settlers yet remember they got their first slice of meat from a Sturm's pork barrel, their first meal of corn or potatoes from their fields. An as early as 1836 they had horses, cows, and hogs to sell, and in this way aided others not so well provided." (p. 32-33).

The family of Matthias and his son Henry Seeley Sturm is remembered prominently in the history of Stark Co. Illinois. Of Henry Jr. there is only "Besides the large family of Matthias, senior, there was another Henry Sturms, brother of the former, whose children for the most part are residents of Stark County. Of this family, we have even less knowledge." (p. 255 see complete text). Henry Jr. died at age 77 six years after the death of Catherine who died in 1862 at age 67, both in Elmira, Stark County Illinois.