James Stark and Martha Skinner
Husband James Stark 1 2
Born: 4 Apr 1799 - Morristown, Morris Co, NJ 1 3 Christened: Died: 26 Jul 1882 1 3 Buried:
Father: Isaac Stark (Abt 1750-Abt 1802/1805) 3 4 Mother: Elizabeth Glenn ( -Abt 1813) 3
Marriage: 1825 1 3
Wife Martha Skinner 1 2
Born: 1805 3 Christened: Died: 5 Aug 1887 3 Buried:
Father: William Skinner (1757-1856) 5 6 Mother: Martha Duncan (1759-1845) 6 7
Children
1 M [Unk] Stark 3 8
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
2 M Adolphus Stark 3 8
Born: Christened: Died: 1850 - California 3 Buried:
3 M Albert G. Stark 3 8
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
4 M Denton D. Stark 3 8
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
5 M Newell Duncan Stark 3 8
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
6 M Isaac Andrew Stark 3 8
Born: Christened: Died: 16 Dec 1872 - Trinidad, Las Animas Co, CO 3 8 Buried:
7 F Nancy Jane Stark 3 8
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Joseph Ferguson ( - ) 3 8 Marr: 17 Dec 1845 3
8 F Elizabeth Glenn Stark 3 8
Born: 1833 3 Christened: Died: 12 Aug 1853 3 Cause of Death: Typhoid fever Buried:
9 F Margaret "Maggie" Stark 3 8
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
10 F Sarah Stark 3 8
Born: Christened: Died: 1876 - Carthage, IL 3 Buried:Spouse: John W. Everett ( -Aft 1887) 3 8
General Notes: Husband - James Stark
He was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and came to Path Valley, Pennsylvania, with his parents in the second year of his age, and afterward removed with them to Loudon.
"At the time of his father's death he was in his sixth year. His mother returned to Path Valley and purchased the farm owned by the late Daniel Skinner; when he was fourteen years old his mother died, thus leaving him and his younger brother, Isaac, orphans. Their struggle with the world was a hard one, and it was instructive and interesting to hear James relate his experiences and hardships. The writer has often, when a boy, around the old fireside, listened to him as he told of the difficulties he had to overcome in order to secure the simplest elements of an education; he related how, during the winter days, he gathered pine knots, by the light of which during the long winter nights he studied his lessons and his sisters spun and knit. Where now stand comfortable brick and frame farmhouses, there were log houses with puncheon floors, and clapboard roofs. He often told of waking from a good night's sleep to find his bed and head covered with snow. "How well I remember now how he labored to instill into the minds of his own children the necessity of economy and thrift, by relating how he saved his first 50 cents, by carrying wheat to the mill for a neighbor. And when he saved $5 in his fourteenth year, he felt as though his fortune were made. Before he was twenty years of age he learned the miller's trade and had charge of the mill at Orbisonia. It was while employed in that capacity that he wooed and won Martha Skinner, whom he married in the year 1825, the Rev. George Gray performing the ceremony. This old father of the faithful ever had a warm place in Mr. Stark's heart from that time until his death. He never visited the Valley but what he was entertained at his board. After a brief residence at Shade Gap and Waterloo, engaged in mercantile business, he moved in 1833 to Dry Run and purchased the farm where his wife was born and raised on, and where he lived and died. James Stark displayed in his youth the same characteristics of energy, honesty and firmness of purpose which were so markedly developed in his maturer years. He was a man whose views were broad and liberal; charity, both of word and deed, was a prominent trait of his character, being ever ready to deal gently and kindly with those who fell into temptation, and having a hand ever open to the poor and needy. He took a firm stand in all movements looking to the educational advancement of the people and to the strengthening of the church. During the ministry of the Rev. Amos McGinley, he was chosen a ruling elder of the Upper Path Valley Presbyterian Church, and for forty years he was a prominent figure in that congregation. His visits to the sick and his ministrations to the poor and needy were continual, and his memory is cherished by many a resident of that Valley. He displayed marked ability in the manner in which he filled local offices and in the settlement of estates. His integrity was unquestioned and yet, during his long life, he never had a law suit. So peaceful was his character that he was often called in to adjust differences between neighbors. After a long and useful life, he passed away on the 26th of July, 1882, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, retaining his faculties to the last." [HFC 1887, 759]
1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 759.
2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 233.
3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 234.
4 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 758.
5 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 757.
6 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 232.
7 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 752.
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—, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 760.
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