Robert Henry Stembridge

Notes:

The History of Crittenden County, Volume I, page 289, STEMBRIDGE-VAN HOOSER. Henry Reese Stembridge is at least the third and probably the fourth generation of Stembridges to be born in America. In 1764 John Stembridge is named on a list of tithables (tax list) in St. James Parish, Lunenburg County Virginia. In 1765 John Stembridge (presumably of the 1764 tax list) bought 240 acres of land "on the Branches of the Junipir Creek" in Lunenburg County. This John may be Henry Reeses great grandfather, great-great uncle or not related at all. The relationship, if any, needs to be proven, using extant public records. John and Mary Stembridge (Henry Reeses grandparents) migrated from Virginia to Wilson County, Tennessee, where he died in the 1811 and she died there about 1844. They are buried on the old homestead there in Wilson County. William, born about 1799 (Henry Reeses father), one of John and Mary's ten children, married Sarah Mullican about 1823 in Warren County, Tennessee. William died May 16, 1835 in Wilson County, Tennessee. Sarah died August 29, 1879 in Lee County, Mississippi. Henry Reese (March 29, 1835, May 27, 1910) born in Wilson County, Tennessee, married on March 7 1855 in Warren County Tennessee Elizabeth VanHooser (1835, February 7, 1880), daughter of Sampson and Mary (Webb) VanHooser. She died in Livingston County, Kentucky and he died in Crittenden County. Both are buried in Rowland Cemetery, Caldwell County. He married second, Mrs. Isabel Croft August 14, 1889 at Marion, Kentucky. They had no children. Henry Reeses and Elizabeth's thirteen children are: Mary Jane (February 18, 1856, April 1924) married Thomas Murry; William Buchanan (July 20, 1857, March 20, 1933), married Patricia Jane Bell Fralick; James Harrison (November 17, 1858, April 7, 1931) never married; Sampson (August 23, 1860, June 21, 1949) (See Stembridge-Fralick-Coons for his family history); Nancy Ellander (December 29, 1861, May 14, 1915) married William J. Rowland; Sarah Didama (August 15, 1864, January 27, 1944) married John Walters; Hudson Alexander (January 15, 1866) married Ethel Dorris; Thomas Jefferson (January 8, 1868, October 14, 1957) married Martha Jane Orange; Hanah Elizabeth (January 20, 1970, August 17, 1957) married Henry L. Belt; Andrew Jackson (January 25, 1872, April 7, 1914) married Vinia Brown; Robert Henry (November 17, 1873, September 23, 1875); John Allen (March 29, 1876, March 19, 1936) married Flora McConnell; Isaac Denton (June 14, 1878, June 21, 1965) married Addie Belle Canada. Henry Reese was a farmer. He owned farm land in Livingston, Caldwell and Crittenden Counties. Acreage on Piney Creek in the Iron Hill (now Deanwood) community and property in Shady Grove were Crittenden County locations---Submitted by Lillian C LaRue.

Henry married Elizabeth VanHooser 7 Mar 1855, Warren County, Tennessee. Elizabeth (daughter of Sampson Samuel VanHooser and Mary Webb) was born 18 Dec 1835, Warren County, Tennessee; died 7 Feb 1880, Livingston County, Kentucky; was buried , Rowland Cemetery, Caldwell County, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

William married Sarah Mullican Abt 1823, Warren County, Tennessee. Sarah (daughter of William Mullican and Wilmoth Bruce) was born Abt 1806, Casey County, Kentucky; died 29 Aug 1879, Lee County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

The following article on Sampson S. VanHooser is in the CALDWELL COUNTY KENTUCKY HISTORY BOOK, page 386.

SAMPSON VANHOOSER
Sampson Samuel Van Hooser was born on February 4, 1805, in Virginia. He was the son of Isaac and Rebecca--Isaac born in 1753 in Rowan County, North Carolina, and Rebecca born about 1761 in Virginia. By 1826 Sampson S. was living in Warren County, Tennessee. He married Mary (Polly) Webb, who was born in 1812 in Warren County, Tennessee. They were the parents of eleven children: James Webb, who was born October 18, 1827, and married Melissa A. Cantrell; Isaac M., who was born about 1832; Didama, who was born February 10, 1834, and married Daniel Trammell; Elizabeth, who was born in 1836, and married Henry R. Stembridge; John, who was born November 21, 1837, and married Melvina Williams; Huston, who was born in 1840 and died January 5, 1863, in the Civil War; Andrew Jackson, who was born March 1, 1842, and married Martha Ann Riley; Nancy C., who was born in 1844 and married Andrew J. Eskew; Thomas Jefferson, who was born in 1846 and married A. E. Pippin; Sampson G., who was born in 1848 and married Marie W. Dodds; Robert W., who was born August 22, 1850 and married Margaret Jane Travis. Mary (Polly) died before 1855. All the children except James Webb, John and Huston lived in Caldwell and Crittenden Counties of Kentucky after the Civil War.
The 1860 Census of Warren County, Tennessee, listed Sampson S. VanHooser, age 55, farmer; Elizabeth Trammell, age 31, wife. They had one daughter, born in 1856. Elizabeth died before Sampson came to Kentucky in the late 1860's. The 1880 Census of Caldwell County, Kentucky, listed Sampson S. VanHooser, age 74, farmer; Rebecca Sarah Morphett, age 52, wife; Sarah Barbara, age 9, daughter. Sampson S. died in 1889 and was buried in Caldwell County, Kentucky. Rebecca Sarah died July 3, 1895. Sarah Barbara married A. S. Lucas, who preceded her in death. At the time of her death in 1957, she was living in Fredonia, Kentucky, with Billy Sherrill, a relative. She and her husband were buried in Livingston Cemetery in Caldwell County, Kentucky.
Source: Family and Census Record.
Submitted by: Geneva Van Hooser Smith

Sampson married Mary Webb Abt 1827, Warren County, Tennessee. Mary (daughter of James Webb and Didama Webb) was born 1812, Warren County, Tennessee; died 1852, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

John — Mary. died Abt 1844, Wilson County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

William married Wilmoth Bruce Bef 13 Nov 1791. [Group Sheet]

Isaac married Rebecca Thompson Between 1796 and 1800, Virginia. Rebecca (daughter of John Thompson and Rebecca) was born , Virginia; died , Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

James — Didama Webb. Didama (daughter of James Byars Webb and Mary Ott) was born Abt 1793, North Carolina; died Abt 1867, Warren County, Tennessee. [Group Sheet]