Notes:

Stapp, William, wid Milley, cont wid nancy, wid WC-5408 MS 16 Mar 1898, cont wid WA-7384 AR 31 Jan 1898, Creek War srv 1st Ga Mtd Vols

Taken from book, Index to Indian Wars Pension Files 1892-1926 Volume II L-Z, transcribed by Virgil D. White

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William Stapp was a blacksmith at Trout Creek (Ragland) where he met Nancy Wester Holloman, widow of James Holloman, daughter of Edward Wester. William had helped found the Primitive Baptist Church of that community. William and Nancy began an affair, so they ran off to Mississippi, wher he was soon arrested on charges of child stealing, having taken one of his children, filed by his wife. William wrote and asked Milly and the children to come join him there. Nancy was still in the area. After sometime William abandoned Milly, fled with Nancy and went to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and had a second family.

Source: N. Dale Morgan's Submission in book, Heritage of St. Clair County, Alabama

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William Stapp's Mortgage to William Sison

On or before the 25th day of December next I promise to pay William Sison or bearer the sum of fifty dollars with interest from date for value received of him in a mule which stands surety for the payment of said money to said Sison said mule is not to be traded to any person until said mortgage is paid.
This May the 8th 1855 } William his X mark Stapp
As witness N.W. Box }
John McCall }

State of Alabama St Clair County may the 10th 1855. This is to certify that a certain mule which I now own stands surety for the payment of one hundred and fifty dollars which is inserted in three notes of fifty dollars each due the 25th day of December next with interest from date and dated May the 8th 1855 which notes were given for the purchase of tree mules which is entered in said notes. This obligation is to secure the payment of said money to William Sison the hold of said notes by (?) the forth mule as surety for the payment of the sum day and date as above written. Given under my hand and seal.
Test: N.W. Box William his X mark Stapp

The state of Alabama St. Clair County, I Ross Philips, Judge of the Probate Court in and for said County hereby certify that Henry W. Box a (?) witness to the forepoint conveyance known to appeared before me this day and being (?) states that William Stapp the grantor in the conveyance voluntarily executed the sum in his presence on the day the sum bears date that he affected the sum in the presence of the grantor. Given under my hand on this 12 day of February A.D. 1856. Received in office for Record and duly (?) the above conveyances on this 1st of February A.D. 1856.

Ross Philips Judge of Probate

William married STEGALL Milly in 1836 in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Milly (daughter of STEGALL Birdwell) was born about 1820 in South Carolina; died on 7 Aug 1916 in Guntown, Lee County, Mississippi; was buried in Aug 1916 in Campbelltown Cemetery. [Group Sheet]