Col. G. W. Stover and Mary E. Kiester

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Husband Col. G. W. Stover ¹

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            AKA: Cornelius G. W. Stover,2 3 Kernel Stover 4
           Born: 18 Jan 1833 - Venango Co, PA 1 2
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         Father: Samuel Stover (1812-1892) 1 2
         Mother: Sarah Houser (      -1891) 1 5 6

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       Marriage: 18 Feb 1875 7 8

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   Other Spouse: Rebecca A. Cox (      -1873) 4 9 - 1857 8

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Wife Mary E. Kiester ^{4 8}

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            AKA: Mary E. Keister 7
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         Father: Adam Kiester (      -Abt 1892) 8
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1 F Grace L. Stover ^{7 8}

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2 M Waldo Stover ^{7 8}

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3 M Samuel G. Stover ^{7 8}

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4 F Mary G. Stover ^{7 8}

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5 F Maud D. Stover ^{7 8}

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General Notes: Husband - Col. G. W. Stover

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Civil War: C. G. W. Stover, corporal, September 7, 1861, three years; promoted to corporal February 26, 1863; captured April 20, 1864; absent on furlough at muster out; veteran.

He enlisted in August, 1861, in Company A, One Hundred and Third Pennsylvania Regiment, re-enlisted in 1864, was taken prisoner on April 20, 1864, at Plymouth, North Carolina; was in Andersonville prison for almost nine months. He commenced the building of boats in 1869, and built a saw-mill on the Clarion River in 1885 or 1886.

He was eleven years of age when he accompanied his parents on their removal to Clarion County, Pennsylvania, and in the public schools he acquired a limited education. During his youth he assisted his father in lumbering and boating, and after his marriage, he located in Licking township and engaged in the former occupation on his own account. Feeling his country needed his services, he enlisted in August, 1861, for three years, in Company A, 103d P. V. I., which was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, under Gen. McClellan. He saw much hard service, was in many skirmishes, and fourteen hotly contested battles. In 1862 he was promoted to the rank of corporal, in which capacity he was serving at the battle of Plymouth, North Carolina, where his brigade surrendered, and he was taken to Andersonville prison, where he was incarcerated until the following December, when he was transferred to the stockades at Charleston. He suffered all the tortures of hunger and sickness during his imprisonment, and was not paroled until about the first of January, 1865, when he was sent to Annapolis, Maryland, remaining there until he had sufficiently recovered to return home on a thirty-days' furlough. On rejoining his command he was sent to Roanoke Island, where he did guard duty until after the surrender of General Lee. On January 1, 1864, he had re-enlisted, and was finally mustered out at Moorehead City, North Carolina, in June, 1865, being honorably discharged and paid off at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in July. Returning to his home in Licking township, Clarion County, Colonel Stover was for a time engaged in building bridges with his father, and later was employed in the sawmill of G. W. Elder. From the spring of 1869 until 1885 he rented the mill, which he then purchased and successfully operated; and in connection with the manufacture of lumber he was engaged in building boats for the Pittsburg markets. For many years he was also a pilot on the river, and devoted some time to the cultivation and improvement of his farm, which was pleasantly situated on the Clarion river two miles from Callensburg. Upon the place he erected good, substantial buildings, making it a most attractive country home.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1428.

2 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), BP 53.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 661.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1007.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1029.

6 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 894.

7 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), Pg liv.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1429.

9 A. J. Davis, History of Clarion County, Pennsylvania (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1887), Pg liii.