Short Biography of William H. Stambaugh & Elizabeth Winger

ELIZA STAMBAUGH, farmer, P. O. Somerset, was born in the State of Virgiia January 16, 1823, daughter of Martin and Elizabeth (Frantz) Winger, natives of Pennsylvania and of German extraction; attended the common school and remained at home with her parents until her marriage, January 29, 1856, to Mr. William Stambaugh, born in York County, Penn., in 1812; removed to Ohio in 1840; remained until the fall of 1852, when he came to Wabash County, Ind., locating upon the farm where the family still reside and upon which some improvements had been made, a small frame house standing on the site of the present beautiful brick house erected in 1874. Mr. Stambaugh was a farmer by occupation, had some start in life, and was a member of the German Baptist Church as is also Mrs. Stambaugh. Mr. and Mrs. Stambaugh were the parents of four children, three of whom survive, their names are as follows: Anna, Amanda and Maria. Mr. Stambaugh was twice married, and to the first marriage were born five children, three of whom are living and two of them are well known residents of Waltz Township—David, Mary (now of St. Louis) and Lydia (wife of John Garst, of Waltz Township); the first wife of Mr. Stambaugh deceased October 1, 1854. Mr Stambaugh died January 7, 1881, aged sixty-eight years; he died respected and regretted by all who had known him.

Source: "History of Wabash County, Indiana : containing a history of the county, its townships, towns, military record, portraits of early settlers and prominent men, personal reminiscences, etc." ³⁰⁰⁷