Edward Starbuck

As printed in 1882

EDWARD STARBUCK, SR.

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Elward Slarbuck, Sr., Wayne County, Ind.. was the son of William Slarbuck, who was born on Nantucket Island, 1747, and moved to North Carolina, 1771; marrying soon afterward, Jane 'taylor, of Virginia, a member of the Stuarts, once heirs to the English and Scotch crowns; he raised eleven children, nine girls. After the girls were all married, a lady visitor asked him, " How many sons-in-law have you?" "But nine," said he. "Anybody that would buit at that, ought to have his horns knocked off," reported she.

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It will be seen from the statement just given, that the " Starbuck family " have been and still are truly a " power in the land." Active, frugal, thriving, prolific, intelligent, sober-minded, devout, they have long been and they continue to be a fountain of life and light to the region and the world. Few families can be found so numerous and so long-lived. In 1862, the entire family of eighteen children, the father and the step-mother, were alive— the oldest child sixty-five, the youngest, twenty-three. Their united ages were then 957 years, an average of forty-six years. And in 1880, the ages of the thirteen living children made 778 years, averaging about si sty years— the oldest, eighty-three; the youngest forty-two.

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As printed in History of Randolph County, Indiana with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers : to which are appended maps of its several townships (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.