Suggested edit: The book, Wood County, Ohio; Its Past and Present, Biographies and Portraits of Early Settlers and Representative Citizens was published in Chicago. Illinois by J. H. Beers & Co. in 1897 on page 575 under the biography of Justus Stearns you can read:
"James Stearns was ‘married in Allegheny county, Penn., to Miss Abilene Hardin, a daughter of Amos Hardin, and settled upon the farm where our subject was born, remaining there until the fall of 1822, when he moved to a farm near Bloomingdale, Richland Co., Ohio, his household goods being transported by an ox-team in primitive fashion. He died there of lung disease, May 5, 1837, and his wife survived him until in September I861, when she died in Berrien county, Mich., at the home of their youngest son. Both were members of the Baptist Church. While he made a comfortable living, he was not a man to accumulate great wealth, nor did he possess the robust physique with which his sons were endowed. Ten children were born to this estimable pioneer couple, the names with dates of birth being as follows: Lydia, January 6, 1804 (married James Wells, and died in Berrien county, Mich.); Amos, January 8, I806 (he was a farmer in Troy township, DeKalb Co., Ind., where he died); Phoebe, January 21, 1808 (married Hiram Stevens, and died in what is now Morrow county, Ohio); Justus, July 8, 1810; William, February 17, 1814 (he was a farmer in Chautauqua county, Kans., and died there); Rhoda, February I6, I817 (married Asa Fields, and moved to Utah, where she died); Masena, March 24, 1819 (married, first, William Hebbert, and, second, Dayton Mills, and died in Berrien county, Mich., November 29, I895); Wealthy, October 22, 1821 (married William Herbert (deceased), and resides at Bloomdale); Silas, March 15, I823 (died in Berrien county,Mich.); and Otis, in February, 1829 (he is now a farmer in Berrien county).
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