THE BLOOMFIELD DEMOCRAT, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, June 25, 1889, "In Memoriam."

ED. DEMOCRAT: -- By request I will give a short sketch of the life of Bennett STALCUP, deceased: Mr. Stalcup was born in Sumpter county, Tenn., in 1809. In 1829 he emigrated to Greene county, Ind., with his parents and three brothers and one half-brother, whose names were Peden, Eli, Albert and Stephen. He married Lydia PADGETT, who is yet living, in 1836, and settled in Highland township, this county, and lived there on the farm over 50 years. Surviving all his father's family of boys, and lived to see them settle down in business in Bloomfield, where he could see them every week. They also had one girl born to them, who died in her youth; they also sacrificed as good a boy as any one lost in the late war. He cast his third presidential vote for William Henry Harrison, his last for Benjamin Harrison.

The writer has known Mr. Stalcup 50 years; was raised three-quarters of a mile north of his farm, and can say there was no better neighbor. He helped raise all the houses and barns, and rolled the logs from three to five miles around. Helped care for the sick, bury the dead; indeed, all the young people, and old, said they could have a good time at Uncle Bennett's. In fact, he was the kind of a citizen necessary to build up a new country. He was a good farmer while able to work, loved to sport with his gun and brought down many a deer and turkey in an early day.

Some time at the old Camp Ground, while I was a boy, he made a profession of faith in Christ and joined the C.P. church. But I cannot give the date. He has passed from labor to reward.
This land of sin and sorrow is not the land for me,
Where anguish oft we borrow from dying company;
There is a land not far away, we'll enter it on
some bright day.
That day may be, to-morrow–oh, that's the land
for me!
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[Note: Copied for information only. I have not researched this family. R.L.Jackson, 1/13/1999.]