Elias Stine, a son of Johann Frederick and Maria Mercklen Stine, was born 8 July 1777 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Johann Frederick Stine purchased in 1788 two parcels of land in, and moved to, old Lincoln County--now in Catawba County--North Carolina, where a German pioneer community was established in the 1740s and 1750s.

In North Carolina, Elias Stine married twice, but the marriage records are no longer extant. Family researchers speculate that his first wife was Sarah Fulbright; she died about 1822. Afterwards, he married Mary, whose surname may have been Daniels or Lantz. An older--perhaps eldest--child from this second marriage, Charles, was born 20 June 1828 in Rowan County, North Carolina. Elias Stine's family is said to have migrated in fall 1828 to Monroe County, Indiana.

Elias Stine entered land and farmed in Richland Township, Monroe County. His younger children with Mary were born there. After about 20 years in Indiana, Elias Stine's family moved to McLean County, Illinois, in 1848 or 1849.


Notes

Nov 1792: Rev. John Godfrey Arndt confirmed Elias Stine at South Fork Church (also called St. Paul's Church or the Deutch Meeting House).

1800 U.S. Census, Lincoln Co., North Carolina; p. 881 (printed).
10. Elias Stine.

4 Oct 1809: Elias Stine purchased from Jacob Fulbright 100. (Lincoln Co. Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Jan 1810. Court held in Lincolnton, North Carolina.)

1810 U.S. Census, Lincoln Co., North Carolina; p. 443 (written).
1. Elias Stine.

Jan 1812 Court in Lincolntown: Elias Stine on jury for case of John Bonham to the use of M. Chambers v. Edward Boyd. (At the same court was the case of Henry Lagle v. Elias Stine.)

1820 U.S. Census, Buncombe Co., North Carolina; p. 122 (printed).
30. Elias Stine.

1830 U.S. Census, Monroe Co., Indiana; p. 159 / p. 316 (both written).
1. Elias Stine.
2. Jacob Stine.
14. Solomon Stine.

18 Mar 1837: Purchases in Monroe Co., Indiana, two 40-acre plots in Section 1 and Section 12 of Township 9 North, Range 2 West--later Richland Twp. (Corners of the two plots met.)

1840 U.S. Census, Monroe Co., Indiana; p. 250 (written).
10. Elias Stine.

1848-49: Migrates to McLean Co., Illinois. 1848 date from biography of Daniel T. Crumbaugh (husband of former Laura Anna Stine) in The History of McLean County, Illinois (Chicago: Wm. LeBaron, Jr., & Co., 1879), p. 879). 1849 date from "Mrs. Louisa [Stine] Painter [obituary]," Gibson City Courier [Illinois], 28 Jul 1911, p. 2.

1850 U.S. Census, North Side of Old Town Twp., McLean Co., Illinois; dwelling 1623, family 1659, lines 30-37, p. 97 (printed), 8 Nov 1850.
30. Elias Stine [head], 77, farmer (land worth $300), Pennsylvania.
31. Mary -----, 50, North Carolina.
32. Jesse -----, 20, Indiana.
33. Louisa -----, 18, Indiana.
34. Polly -----, 15, Indiana.
35. Katy -----, 13, Indiana.
36. Eliza -----, 10, Indiana.
37. Ann -----, 6, Indiana.
Note: Households of Absalom Stine and Gabriel Stine on same page. Son Charles Stine in 1850 traveled on foot to California.