David Stinson

  General Notes:

In 1819, David his wife and three children immigrated to the United States. Traveling with them were Samuel Bell, cousin of David and Bell's wife Isabelle, a sister of David's wife Elizabeth (McCaulley) Stinson. Landing in Baltimorethe men went to hunt a dwelling. After staying a month in Baltimore the journeyed up into Pennsylvania where they stayed until the following spring, 1820. Hearing of the wonderful cheapness and fertility of the land in Ohio, they concluded to move on westward. After 4 weeks of travel they finally arrived in the vicinity of Dalton ( then Dover) Ohio, and for a time the Stinson and Bell families lived in one log shanty. David Stinson purchased 100 acres of land 2 miles southeast of Dalton a few years afterward and they at once began to clear the ground and erect a dwelling. As he was a weaver by trade David did not work in the field very much but he did weaving for the neighbors and they paid him in work and produce. His boys were soon considered the best wood choppers in the vicinity and after the age of 15 years David and William (sons) had to quit school and clear up field after field of heavy timber. Eight more children were born to David and Elizabeth so David spent his last years surrounded by children and grand-children. He was a devout member of the United Presbyterian church and the Stinsons were amoung the members of the first United Presbyterian congregation organized in the latter part of 1820 at the home of John McDowell, near Dalton. David died at his farm home at the age of 79.

Children:
Grace Stinson, 1808\endash 1840, m. Samuel McAfee
Margaret Ann Stinson, 1812\endash , m. George Dague
David Stinson, 1813\endash 1892, m. Sarah McElhinney
William Stinson, 1816\endash 1894 m. Catherine Moore
Elizabeth Olive Stinson, 1819\endash 1858, m. Joseph McElhinney
Sarah Jane Stinson, 1821\endash 1823
Mary Stinson, 1823\endash 1892, m. James Douglas
James Stinson, 1827\endash 1909, m. Margaret Lavina Johnston and Ariminda Emmelie (Minnie) Johnston
John Stinson, 1829\endash 1833
Isabella Stinson, 1832\endash 1864, m. William Caldwell
Maria Stinson, m. William Murray

David married Elizabeth McCaulley on 25 Dec 1811 in Tyrone, Ulster. (Elizabeth McCaulley was born on 25 Dec 1792 in Northern Ireland and died on 13 Mar 1870 in Dalton, Wayne, Ohio.)