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The reunion of the Stockman and related families will be held in Silver City, New Mexico on 16, 17 and 18 July this year.

Friday: As has become traditional the family will gather at the home of Lee and Judy in the afternoon and evening to get acquainted and renew old friendships. Address is: #16 McKinley Street, call 505-388-4054 for directions and check at front desk of Motel for map.

Saturday: The family will congregate in a nice meeting room provided by the restaurant for the traditional auction and entertainment and then on Saturday evening the traditional Banquet will be held. Locations for these events will be available at the Friday gathering. Louisa Billings aka Judy Allen will entertain us with her life story, and we may have Billy the Kid’s school teacher and a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient to also educate and entertain us.

Sunday: The picnic at Little Walnut Picnic Area will conclude the reunion. Maps and directions available Friday and Saturday. Good weather guaranteed, what ever it may be!!

We have moved the reunion motel this year. Our former host, Mike Trumbull, has sold the motel were he met two years ago and the new operators have increased rates beyond what we feel is reasonable. The new motel we recommend is:

Be sure to tell them you are with the Stockman Family Reunion for the Special rate of $55.00 plus tax for single or double.

Rvers and motor home dwellers should make reservations early as RV parks fill up fast here in this cool haven from the heat of Tucson and El Paso.

The Auction - a word for the new comers. We will have an auction of items brought by family members, funds raised will defray the cost of the reunion. Home canning, jams, jellies, and arts and craft items are always popular. Items from your home town, business or locality are also in demand. -//-

In this article consider the names Stockman and Stuckman to be interchangeable. In the records many times the name can be read one way or the other.

John Stockman of Fayette County, Pennsylvania first comes to our attention in 1800 when we find him living in Bedford county, PA, in the same township as Peter Stockman who has been identified as a son of Johannes Peter Stockmann and Anna Christina Christen, the immigrants. Both John and Peter’s names were recorded in 1800 as Stuckman.

1800 John Stuckman, Bedford County, PA, Hopewell & Woodberry Townships Page 436
	<10	10-16	16-26	26-45	>45	other
Males	1	0	1	0	0	0
Females	2	0	1	0	0	0

1800 Peter Stuckman Bedford County, PA, Hopewell & Woodberry TWPs, page 440
	<10	10-16	16-26	26-45	>45	other
Males	1	0	0	1	0	0
Females	1	0	1	0	0	0

The 1800 census provides a year of birth for John Stockman somewhere between 1774 and 1784. His wife was born between 1784 and 1794, the one son in the household was born after 1790 and the two daughters were also born after 1790. Family records of a David Stockman and Johnathan Stockman who were living in Ohio in 1840 tell us that they each had a father named John. The evidence indicates that this John Stockman was the father of the two boys, David and Johnathan Stockman. Since neither David nor Johnathan lived to see the 1850 census we are not able to determine which is the elder son. The wife of John Stockman was recorded in family records as Hanna Batchell.

By 1810 John Stockman has moved to Fayette County, PA and is living there in the same township as Martin Stockman who has also been identified as a son of Johannes Peter Stockmann and Anna Christina Christen, the immigrants. Johannes Martinus was an infant when his parents emigrated from Nassau-Siegen to Philadelphia in 1766 on the ship Polly.

The close association of John Stockman with two of the sons of Johannes Peter Stockman and Anna Christine Christen, leads one to presume that he is also a son, but no baptismal record or other evidence has been found at this time to prove this contention

. The History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania by Franklin Ellis, Philadelphia : L.H. Everts & Co., 1882, Page 490, has a list of the early settlers of Bullskin Township, and makes the following comments about John Stockman, “Further down Mounts’ creek among the early settlers were John Smutz, Martin Garver, and westward John Stockman, the latter being a Dunkard Preacher and a very estimable man. This place is now occupied by John Stoneacher.” It is interesting to note that Martin Garver, mentioned in this article, married Fanny Stockman, a sister to Martin Stockman and if our assumption is correct, of John Stockman.

On page 497 the History contains an added bit of information. “One of the first schools in the township was taught in a building near the Baptist Church. It was simply a log cabin but the school was well attended and for those times was considered very good. Pupils were in attendance from the Stoneacher, Shank, Newmeyer, Stockman, Latta, Shallenbarger, Highlands, Myers, Smutz, Garver and other families.”

1810 John Stockman, Fayette County, PA, Tyrone TWP, Page 119
	<10	10-16	16-26	26-45	>45	other
Males	1	1	0	1	0	0
Females	2	2	0	1	0	0

1810 Martin Stockman, Fayette County, PA, Bullskin STP, Page 122
	<10	10-16	16-26	26-45	>45	other
Males	0	0	0	0	1	0
Females	0	0	0	0	2	0

The 1810 census tells us that John Stockman was born between 1765 and 1784, his wife was born between 1765 and 1784, one son was born after 1800 and one between 1796 and 1800, two daughters born after 1800 and two born between 1796 and 1800.

In 1820 John Stockman is still living in Fayette County, PA, enumerated on the same page of the census as Martin Stockman.

1820 John Stockman, Fayette County, PA, Bullskin TWP, Page 103
	<10	10-16	16-18	16-26	26-45	>45	other
Males	0	0	1	2	0	1	0
Females	1	2	---------	0	0	1	0

A short note of explanation is in order when the 1820 census records are interpreted. The column in which males ages 16-18 yrs are recorded was added to this census. Females were not enumerated in this age class. Any male enumerated in this age class was also enumerated in the 16-26 yrs age class. The result of this is that often the number of persons in the household in 1820 can be incorrectly interpreted. John Stockman had only two sons enumerated in this census. One was born between 1802 and 1804 and the other between 1794 and 1802. One daughter was born between 1810 and 1820 and two between 1804 and 1810. John and his wife were born prior to 1775. Incidentally, John was not indexed by Ancestry.com or Genealogy.com in this census and his record was found only by scrolling through the images of the 1820 census of Bullskin Township.

In 1830 John Stockman is enumerated in Fayette County, living near Martin Stockman.

1830 John Stockman, Fayette County, PA, Bullskin TWP, page 294
Name	<5	5 10	10 15	15 20	20 30	30 40	40 50	50 60	60 70	70 80	80 90	90 100	S
Males	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Females	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0

The two sons are no longer in the household, but an additional John Stockman has joined the ranks of those enumerated in Fayette County. This is the son Johnathan Stockman. Johnathan married Ester Stockslager.

1830 John Stockman, Fayette County, PA, Bullskin TWP, Page 293
Name	<5	5 10	10 15	15 20	20 30	30 40	40 50	50 60	60 70	70 80	80 90	90 100	S
Males	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Females	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

The other son, David had moved to Ohio and in 1830 was living in Columbiana County. He married Ann Walker. Their eldest son was born in Fayette County, PA in 1824 before the move to Ohio..

1830 David Stuckman, Columbiana County, Ohio, Center TWP, Page 451
Name	<5	5 10	10 15	15 20	20 30	30 40	40 50	50 60	60 70	70 80	80 90	90 100	S
Males	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Females	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

In 1840, John, the father is still living in Fayette County, PA near Martin Stockman.

1840 John Stockman, Fayette County, PA, Bullskin TWP, Page 386
Name	<5	5 10	10 15	15 20	20 30	30 40	40 50	50 60	60 70	70 80	80 90	90 100	S
Males	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Females	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0

The son David died in 1838 and in 1840 his widow, Ann Stuckman, was enumerated in Columbiana County, OH.