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Note: Find A Grave Memorial# 37726016 Killis was in the War of 1812. Notes on Thomas Stapp - From THE STEPP/STAPP FAMILIES OF AMERICA - A SOURCE BOOK - By Henry P. Scalf in Collaboration with Rudolph B. Stepp - Copyright 1973 and Privately Printed Achilles Stapp, son of Thomas Stepp, of Wilkes County, North Carolina, and who married Elizabeth Hagler, daughter of Issac and Susannah Hagler was one of the first, if not the first Stapp, or Stepp, to breach the barrier of the Great Smokies and settle in East Tennessee. He lived on Four Mile Branc, a tributary of the Little Tennessee River near the present Vonore, Monroe County. An old account book of Cunningham & Rankin trading Post located on Four Mile shows that Achilles was a customer between 1837 and 1839. In 1830, according to the decennial census that year, Achilles and his wife were between 30 and 40 years of age. There was a female, age 70/80, belived to be his mother Sarah, residing in the household. There were two sons under five years, one between five and 10, one daughter less than five years, two daughters between five and ten, two between ten and fifteen. Robert Step, brother of Achilles, was living in Monroe County in 1830. He was between forty and fifty, his wife between thirty and forty. There were two sons and two daughters in the home. In the 1830 census of Monroe there was a family headed by Thomas Stepp, also a brother of Achilles, whose age was between thirty and forty with his wife listed as same age. One son was under five, a daughter also under five and another daughter between five and ten years. This Thomas Stepp shows also in the 1840 Monroe Census as does a much younger Thomas, age between twenty and thirty, Both Achilles and his brother Thomas appear in the 1840 Census. Achilles shows in the 1850 Census of Monroe but his wife is dead. In the household were Granville, age 20, Elizabeth and Miriam, both 18, Cynthia 15, Berton 12, Nancy 9, and Sarah 7. Sometime between the 1850 Monroe County Tennessee Census and the 1860 Census Achilles left Tennessee and moved to Dade County, Missouri. In the Dade census he is shown living with two of his daughters, Cynthia, age 24 and Sarah, age 21. Both of the daughters were listed as born in Tennessee as they were in the 1850 Monroe County Tennessee Census. In Tennesse Achilles was shown as 58 years old, but in the 1860 census of Missouri he is listed as age 70. There are discrepancies in the ages of the daughters, too. These differences are often found in census record and can be attributed to the time of year of the enumeration, and to other factors. Dama S. Smith, Jackson, Mississippi, in writing to A. Max Coppage, a Stapp descendant and researcher, said in a letter, dated 1970: This Achilles is the one listed in Acklen's book on Tennessee at Four Mile Branch Post Office (near Vonore) in Monroe County, Tennessee, in 1835." (1) Achillis (Achilles) Stapp was born in North Carolina (wilkes County) according to 1850 census of Monroe County, Tennessee and 1860 census of Dade County, Missouri. He died before 1870 census. His wife Elizabeth Hagler died after 1840 and before 1850 census of Monroe County, Tennessee. Will of Isaac Hagler (Monroe County, Tennessee) made 27 July 1840: To wife Susanna, to son Benjamin Burton Hagler, "Whereas Elizabeth Stepp, Nancy Curtis, David Hagler, Matilda Howard, Wm. L. Hagler, and Edah Snider have each received a bed and furniture, I desire that my remaining children receive the same amount, namely, John (Wilson having received a bed), Benjamin B., Cynthia, Elvira and Ralph. Execs: Sons Wilson and Benjamin Burton. (Foregoing submitted by Mrs. Dama Stapp Smith, 348 E. Mayes Street, Jackson, Mississippi. (2) From "History of Dade County, Missouri and her People" Pioneer Historical Co., 1917 - Vol. 2, pages 325-327. Carthage Bookbinery, Carthage, Missouri: "Achilles Granville Stapp (son of Achilles Stapp of Monroe County, Tennessee) married Margaret Weir, Apr. 24, 1851 and came to Missouri overland in an ox wagon and settled first in Green County in fall of 1852." (3) Larkin, the brother of Granville, probably came to Missouri at the same time as his father as he is listed in the household next to Achillis (his father) in the 1850 census of Monroe County, Tennessee, and also in the adjacent household in the 1860 Dade County Misouri census, Larkin Household #127, Achillis Household #128. (4) All the children of Wm Burton Stapp and Amanda Everline Doran Stapp, were born in and around Springfield, Misouri. Joseph, Marion and Fletcher remained in Missouri; John settled in Louisiana; Marshall Ney settled in Misissippi; Ellis Otto lived at Jackson, Tennessee; Alfred Julian settled in Arkansas; Chester Burton in Alabama. All above from the Henry Scalf Book - THE STEPP/STAPP FAMILIES OF AMERICA
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