My mother has a very old volume called, “Portrait and Biographical Record: Madison and Hamilton Counties, Indiana, 1893. In this volume are biographies of several members of the Stultz Family. The bio on Edward Stultz is on pages 687-688 and is transcribed below.
EDWARD STULTZ, who since 1865 has resided upon his present farm of eighty acres on section 19, Clay Township, Hamilton County, was born within a mile of his present home on the 23d of October, 1837, and is a son of Thomas and Sallie (Kettner) Stultz. The founder of the family, in America came from Germany to this country about two hundred years ago. He brought his family among whom was Philip, a lad of six years. They located in Pennsylvania, and Philip was married and had a son of the same name, with whom he removed to North Carolina. A third Philip Stultz was born in that state, and became the grandfather of our subject. In North Carolina, he married Catherine Yates, and about 1830 he emigrated to Putnam County, Ind. They reared a family of ten children: Rebecca, wife of Philip Stultz, Frances; Betsy, wife of James Hooper, Sallie, wife of Woodson Dodd; Anna, wife of James Hartman; Fiza, wife of William Bateman; Thomas, Philip, Willam A. and Joseph. The grandfather was a Democrat and died in Putnam County, Ind., in 1850. His wife passed away in 1862, at the age of eighty-one.
Thomas Stultz, father of Edward, was born in Stokes County, N.C., and there married Sallie Kettner. In 1832, they removed to Putnam County, and later came to Hamilton County, entering eighty acres of land in Clay Township, where he made a highly improved farm. He afterwards went to Boone County. He, too, voted the Democratic ticket. His children were: Philip, who was deaf and dumb and was burned to death when a boy; Granville, who is deaf and dumb; Anna, deceased; John H. deceased, also a deaf mute; Jane, who died in childhood; Edward; Emanuel, who is also deaf and dumb, and is supposed to be living in the west; Samuel, deceased; Emeline, who has been three times married, her husbands being in the following order: John Sanders, Abraham Bowen and George Reveal; Wiley, Perlina, who is deaf and dumb; Silas, deceased; Charity, wife of George W. Sluder; Sarah, wife of M. Davis; and James.
In the district schools, our subject was educated, and at the age of sixteen began learning the carpenter’s trade, which he followed in Putnam County. In 1862, he enlisted in Company K, Sixty-third Indiana Infantry, and participated in the battles of Resaca, Twin Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Alanta, Franklin, Nashville, Ft. Fisher, Goldsboro and Kingston. From the effects of wading a river, he was taken sick and sent to the hospital at Troy, N.Y. He was discharged in Albany, N.Y., June 27, 1865, after three years of faithful and valiant services.
Returning to Hamilton County, Mr. Stultz was united in marriage with Sarah J., daughter of Ezekiel and Ruth (Warren) Clampitt. They became parents of five children: Charlie W., Luther W., Orrie E., Maud E. and Nora E., who died in infancy. the mother died in 1884, and the following year Mr. Stultz wedded Katie Taylor, daughter of John G. Taylor. Six children have graced their union: Fred W., Fay W., deceased, Albert W., Mary, Edwin and Clarence.
For a time Mr. Stultz followed carpentering in connection with farming, but afterwards abandoned that work. His present farm comprises eighty acres of rich land, and he also has forty acres in Boone County. He is a stockholder in the Eagle Creek Gas Company, which has three wells. In politics, he affiliates with the Republican party. Socially, he is a member of Zionsville Lodge No. 285, I.O.O.F.; Banner Lodge No. 59, K.H.; and formerly belonged to the Masonic lodge of Zionsville. He is a member of the Christian Church, and his wife belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the community where he has so long made his home, he is both widely and favorably known, and in the history of his adopted county, he well deserves representation.
