James Francis Stinson

1846 - 1926  (79 years)

• Name	James Francis Stinson  [1, 2]
  Birth	17 Oct 1846	Ohio   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 Aug 1926	Wylie, Collin, Texas   [1, 2]
  Burial	28 Aug 1926	Forest Grove, Collin, Texas   [1, 2]
  Notes	James Francis Stinson was born in Akron, Ohio. He was orphaned when young, migrated to Missouri then to Collin County when a young man. He came by wagon train with a family by the name of Roundtree and settled south of McKinney wehre he went to work for Benjamin F. Biggs. In 1876 he married Margaret Catherine Biggs, the oldest daughter of his employer. They started housekeeping on a small acreage he bought on what is now Parker Road. Mr. and Mrs. Stinson added to their small farm from time to time until they owned around a thousand acres of land in various places. The earliest school in the area in that day was a one-room school located southwest of Parker, and also a one room school at St. Paul, which is east of Parker. When the need arose for another school Mr. and Mrs. Stinson donated the land, and another one-room school was built on the west side of the Stinson farm, and it was called "Stinson School". It was also called "Who'd a Thought It.". That was the exclamation from a man who passed while the school was being built and the name stuck. It was the school that all the Stinson children and other nearby neighbor children attended in that early day. Mr. and Mrs. Stinson were the parents of ten children, eight of whom lived to adulthood.
  Person ID	I22135	McKenzie Genealogy
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2011

  
  

  Father	William Stinson   d. UNKNOWN
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Lucy Hoten   d. UNKNOWN
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F10107	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Catherine Biggs,   b. 28 Jun 1859, Henderson, Rusk, Texas d. 25 May 1947, McKinney, Collin, Texas (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	1876	Collin, Texas   [1]
  Children	1. Lucy Jane Stinson,   b. 5 Sep 1877, Texas d. 28 Dec 1961, McKinney, Collin, Texas (Age 84 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Cora Catherine Stinson,   b. 11 May 1883, Texas d. 12 Nov 1953, Allen, Collin, Texas (Age 70 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Henry Robert Stinson,   b. 1895, Texas d. 1946, Texas (Age 51 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Clara Edith Stinson,   b. 24 Jan 1902, Texas d. 28 Oct 1976, Texas (Age 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F09896	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2011

  
  

• Sources

  [S006057] FindAGrave.com. [S011416] Texas Deaths, 1890-1976, (www.familysearch.org).