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Marriage: Children:
  1. Martha Matilda Sturgis: Birth: 8 APR 1836 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Death: UNKNOWN

  2. Elizabeth Jane Sturgis: Birth: 10 DEC 1837 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Death: 12 JAN 1924 in Cross Bayou, Mississippi Co. AR

  3. Joshua Lee Sturgis: Birth: 18 APR 1839 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Death: AFT 1900

  4. Sarah Louisa Sturgis: Birth: 14 OCT 1841 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Death: 19 FEB 1920 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee

  5. Mary Narissa Sturgis: Birth: 11 AUG 1843 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Death: 17 MAY 1845 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee

  6. Emily Trissa Sturgis: Birth: 19 APR 1845 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Death: 1854 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee

  7. Samuel M. Sturgis: Birth: 22 AUG 1847 in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee. Death: UNKNOWN


Notes
a. Note:   This was taken from "Gravestone Inscriptions from Shelby County, Tennessee Cemeteries, Volume II, published 1974 by the The Milestone Press.
  Log Union Cemetery, located on the west side of Seed Tick Road, 1.1 mile south of the Memphis-Arlington Road.
  Joshua L. Sturges, b. 6/12/1795, d. 5/19/1848
  Four sided monument: Sturgis Newton Starling, b. 9/3/1869, d. 4/13/1877 "He gives and when He takes away, He takes what he gave" Emily Sturgis, age 65, "Jesus loves the pure and holy" William Thomas Starling, b. 8/25/1867, d. 9/10/1868 "It is the Lord: let Him do what seemeth good"
  A broken stone leaning by a tree had the following inscription remaining: "23 years"
  In notes on the next page: The 1860 census, Shelby Co., Tenn., 8th Civil District, P. 337-R, 9 Oct. 1860: 1187/1161 Sturgis, Emily 45-F-Farmer-$2250/$500-N.C.;Elizabeth 22-F-Tenn.; Joshua L. 21-M-Tenn.; Starling, Thomas D. 22-M-N.C.' Louisa 18-F-Tenn.
  Chambers Methodist Church Cemetery located behind Chambers Methodist Church on the west side of Chambers Chapel Road a few hundred yards North of Highway 64.
  Sallie Starling, b. 1/21/1874, d. 9/5/1878 Footstone: S. S. (adj. to) Headstone: Sallie Starling Footstone: Plain (adj. to) Headstone: S Footstone: Plain



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