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Charles N. Stinehillver

Bertha Catherine Sorge, born 8 May 1861 in Keokuk, IA

Died 14 June 1949 in St. Joseph, MO

Their Children:

Florence May Stinehillver, born 8 May 1884 in St. Joseph, MO

Married Joseph Alouious Greenfield on 29 June 1914

Died 18 April 1955 in St. Joseph, MO

Erroll Joseph Stinehillver, born 27 January 1888 in St. Joseph, MO

Died 26 December 1914 in St. Louis, MO of typhoid.

Charles, Bertha and Erroll are buried in Mt. Mora Cemetery, St. Joseph, MO, under a stone reading Stinehillver, and all of their death certificates say Stinehillver as well, but on Charles' it gives his wife's name as Bertha S. Stine, and on Florence's death certificate her father's last name is given as Stine! Very confusing!

George W. Stinehillver, born about 1822 near Stuttgart, Wurtemburg GER

Died 8 March 1862 in Brookfield, Linn Co MO

Rebecca Towers, born 15 September 1826 in PA or MD

Died 5 November 1904 in Fairview NM

Married in 1843, possibly in Piqua, Miami Co OH

Their Children:

Henry W. Stinehillver, born in Ohio.

Married Martha _____.

Died 1886 in Hanover, KS

Lavina E. Stinehillver, born 7 November 1846 in Macon Co IL

Married John L. Houck on 4 December 1864 in Buchanan Co MO

Died 7 July 1933 in Grand Island NE

Eliza M. Stinehillver, born in IL

Married Thomas Scales on 10 April 1869 in Brookfield, Linn Co MO

Buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Chloride NM

Charles N. Stinehillver, born 6 September 1851 near Decatur, Macon Co IL

Married Bertha Catherine Sorge 24 Sept 1882 in Buchanan Co. MO

Died 17 January 1920 in St. Joseph, Buchanan Co. MO

Warren T. Stinehillver, born in IL or Linn Co MO

Married 1) Alice _____; married 2) Emma _____ in NE

Died 29 Jan 1923 in Portland OR

Emma Stinehillver, born 24 June 1858 in Linn Co MO

Married Thomas Foster in NE

Died 29 January 1941 in Los Angeles, CA

Frank Stinehillver, born 1861/62 in Illinois

Died before 1904

This family has been hard to track down! Not only did the census takers have a problem spelling their name (I've found at least 8 different variations on it), but family members themselves sometimes decided to just use Stine or Stein. It also didn't help that there was another family (Stine or Stone) that lived in the exact same areas, also with a George and Rebecca as the parents, and some children with the same names and ages as the ones in this family. Thanks to my aunt Margie, I finally found the clues I needed in the pages of Bertha Sorge Stinehillver's scrapbook, and discovered "our" Stinehillvers.

Henry, Charles, Warren and Frank ended up as career railroad men, moving with the rail jobs from Missouri into Kansas and Nebraska. They worked for the Grand Island and Union Pacific railroad companies as engineers and formen. Henry and his wife Martha (known as Mattie) raised five children in Hanover KS. Charles started as a fireman, and while serving in that capacity, he fired the first locomotive to cross the new St. Joseph MO railroad bridge in 1873. After that he became engineer of a passenger line that ran between St. Joseph and Hanover KS and kept that position until his retirement. Warren also settled in Kansas with his wife and daughter. His first wife more than likely passed away, as Warren also had a second wife and another daughter. He later moved to Portland OR. Frank is proving to be the elusive brother at this point.

Their sisters also spread out from their home in Brookfield, MO. Lavina and her husband John settled in Grand Island NE with their two children, John Calvin and Daisy Belle; Eliza and her husband Thomas were among the early pioneers of Sierra County NM, where Thomas worked in the mining business - their young daughter Eva died after their move from NE to NM, and the Scales also adopted a girl named Donna Yaple; and Emma married Thomas Foster (who was quite a few years older than she was) and ended up in Los Angeles CA. They had no children.