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Dr Elisha Baccus Stedman

Birth
Chatham County, North Carolina, USA
Death
27 Jan 1850 (aged 41–42)
Union County, Arkansas, USA
Burial
Van Buren Township, Union County, Arkansas, USA Add to Map
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Son of Winship Stedman and wife, Margaret Ferguson Stedman, of Chatham County NC.
His middle name "Baccus" was the maiden name of his maternal great-grandmother, Abigail Baccus Hurlbut (1701-1763) of Woodstock, CT.

Graduated from UNC Chapel Hill and attended some medical school classes there. Graduated from medical school at Transylvania University in Lexington KY

He met and married his wife, Julianna "Julia" St. Clair Chipley in Lexington KY while in medical school and they married there on 20 Mar Apr 1833.

After his graduation, they moved to his hometown where he opened a medical practice in Pittsboro, county seat of Chatham County NC.

Their first child, Emily Euphania, was born and died the summer of 1836 in Pittsboro NC. Her grave was recovered from the old Stedman Family Cemetery in Pittsboro NC which had been paved over years ago. Her remains were reinterred with those of her family buried in the old cemetery in 2022 at nearby Pittsboro UMC Cemetery. See details in her Memorial.

Their second child, Margaret, was born in 1837 in Pittsboro NC.

They moved to Union County Arkansas in Dec 1849 and he died a month later per his wife's newspaper obituary.

He died of a fever in 27 Jan 1850 at age 36 which he probably contracted from a patient he was treating according to the 1850 US Census Mortality Schedule.

Dr. and Mrs. Stedman were the parents of:

Emily Euphania, born and died summer of 1836.
Margaret "Maggie" 1837-1899
William H. 1839-1849
Dr. Steven Slaughter Stedman 1842-1920
Elisha Hurlbut. 1844
Robert Cooper 1846-1910
Son of Winship Stedman and wife, Margaret Ferguson Stedman, of Chatham County NC.
His middle name "Baccus" was the maiden name of his maternal great-grandmother, Abigail Baccus Hurlbut (1701-1763) of Woodstock, CT.

Graduated from UNC Chapel Hill and attended some medical school classes there. Graduated from medical school at Transylvania University in Lexington KY

He met and married his wife, Julianna "Julia" St. Clair Chipley in Lexington KY while in medical school and they married there on 20 Mar Apr 1833.

After his graduation, they moved to his hometown where he opened a medical practice in Pittsboro, county seat of Chatham County NC.

Their first child, Emily Euphania, was born and died the summer of 1836 in Pittsboro NC. Her grave was recovered from the old Stedman Family Cemetery in Pittsboro NC which had been paved over years ago. Her remains were reinterred with those of her family buried in the old cemetery in 2022 at nearby Pittsboro UMC Cemetery. See details in her Memorial.

Their second child, Margaret, was born in 1837 in Pittsboro NC.

They moved to Union County Arkansas in Dec 1849 and he died a month later per his wife's newspaper obituary.

He died of a fever in 27 Jan 1850 at age 36 which he probably contracted from a patient he was treating according to the 1850 US Census Mortality Schedule.

Dr. and Mrs. Stedman were the parents of:

Emily Euphania, born and died summer of 1836.
Margaret "Maggie" 1837-1899
William H. 1839-1849
Dr. Steven Slaughter Stedman 1842-1920
Elisha Hurlbut. 1844
Robert Cooper 1846-1910


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