Son of Appleton Stillman & Amanda Hurd
Married Barbara Redfield, 12 Nov 1826
DEXTER STILLMAN, Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847
The town of Franklin Grove was conceived in 1850, when Dexter Stillman, a Mormon pioneer, became the first pioneer to settle in Pierce Township, Page County, Iowa. His is the oldest of the graves in Franklin Grove Cemetery. Others may have passed through Pierce Township prior to 1850, but Dexter Stillman was the "first actual settler" in the area, according to the "Biographical History of Page County, Iowa," published in 1890 by Lewis and Dunbar Publishers in Chicago.
Stillman was a Mormon pioneer who left the group traveling west with Brigham Young in the 1850's. He was one of many who left Young's group because of differences on the issue of polygamy. At that time, the area was a "howling wilderness with Indians and wild beasts on every hand," said the Lewis and Dunbar history.
Stillman did not live here long, as he died November 11, 1852, his grave being the oldest in Franklin Grove Cemetery. He or his son Frank was the first person to die in the township. Frank was also the first to be born in the township, dying as a baby. His grave cannot now be found a Franklin Grove, but the grave stone was erected to him somewhere, as Lewis and Dunbar's history says, A rough stone slab marks the resting p;ace bearing the inscription Frankie Stillman."
* Mormon Battalion members
Married Barbara Redfield, 12 Nov 1826
DEXTER STILLMAN, Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847
The town of Franklin Grove was conceived in 1850, when Dexter Stillman, a Mormon pioneer, became the first pioneer to settle in Pierce Township, Page County, Iowa. His is the oldest of the graves in Franklin Grove Cemetery. Others may have passed through Pierce Township prior to 1850, but Dexter Stillman was the "first actual settler" in the area, according to the "Biographical History of Page County, Iowa," published in 1890 by Lewis and Dunbar Publishers in Chicago.
Stillman was a Mormon pioneer who left the group traveling west with Brigham Young in the 1850's. He was one of many who left Young's group because of differences on the issue of polygamy. At that time, the area was a "howling wilderness with Indians and wild beasts on every hand," said the Lewis and Dunbar history.
Stillman did not live here long, as he died November 11, 1852, his grave being the oldest in Franklin Grove Cemetery. He or his son Frank was the first person to die in the township. Frank was also the first to be born in the township, dying as a baby. His grave cannot now be found a Franklin Grove, but the grave stone was erected to him somewhere, as Lewis and Dunbar's history says, A rough stone slab marks the resting p;ace bearing the inscription Frankie Stillman."
* Mormon Battalion members
Son of Appleton Stillman & Amanda Hurd
Married Barbara Redfield, 12 Nov 1826
DEXTER STILLMAN, Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847
The town of Franklin Grove was conceived in 1850, when Dexter Stillman, a Mormon pioneer, became the first pioneer to settle in Pierce Township, Page County, Iowa. His is the oldest of the graves in Franklin Grove Cemetery. Others may have passed through Pierce Township prior to 1850, but Dexter Stillman was the "first actual settler" in the area, according to the "Biographical History of Page County, Iowa," published in 1890 by Lewis and Dunbar Publishers in Chicago.
Stillman was a Mormon pioneer who left the group traveling west with Brigham Young in the 1850's. He was one of many who left Young's group because of differences on the issue of polygamy. At that time, the area was a "howling wilderness with Indians and wild beasts on every hand," said the Lewis and Dunbar history.
Stillman did not live here long, as he died November 11, 1852, his grave being the oldest in Franklin Grove Cemetery. He or his son Frank was the first person to die in the township. Frank was also the first to be born in the township, dying as a baby. His grave cannot now be found a Franklin Grove, but the grave stone was erected to him somewhere, as Lewis and Dunbar's history says, A rough stone slab marks the resting p;ace bearing the inscription Frankie Stillman."
* Mormon Battalion members
Married Barbara Redfield, 12 Nov 1826
DEXTER STILLMAN, Private. On detached service since Oct. 17, 1846, by order of Colonel Doniphan, Commanding Army of the West. Mustered out with detachment, to date July 16, 1847
The town of Franklin Grove was conceived in 1850, when Dexter Stillman, a Mormon pioneer, became the first pioneer to settle in Pierce Township, Page County, Iowa. His is the oldest of the graves in Franklin Grove Cemetery. Others may have passed through Pierce Township prior to 1850, but Dexter Stillman was the "first actual settler" in the area, according to the "Biographical History of Page County, Iowa," published in 1890 by Lewis and Dunbar Publishers in Chicago.
Stillman was a Mormon pioneer who left the group traveling west with Brigham Young in the 1850's. He was one of many who left Young's group because of differences on the issue of polygamy. At that time, the area was a "howling wilderness with Indians and wild beasts on every hand," said the Lewis and Dunbar history.
Stillman did not live here long, as he died November 11, 1852, his grave being the oldest in Franklin Grove Cemetery. He or his son Frank was the first person to die in the township. Frank was also the first to be born in the township, dying as a baby. His grave cannot now be found a Franklin Grove, but the grave stone was erected to him somewhere, as Lewis and Dunbar's history says, A rough stone slab marks the resting p;ace bearing the inscription Frankie Stillman."
* Mormon Battalion members
